Trivia: Guinness Book of World Records confirmed Pac-Man as the most recognizable video game character. 94% of Americans would immediately recognize Pac-Man.

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Trivia: Pac-Man was originally intended to attract female players since it was mostly males who played arcade games in the 1970s.

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Trivia: The highest possible score in Pac-Man is 3,333,360 points. The first known person ever to achieve a perfect score was a man called Billy Mitchell on July 3, 1999. It took him six hours and he had to endure 256 levels. On the final level, and due to a programming limitation, there is only half of the maze, the right side of the screen contains garbage characters. Once the ultimate score is reached, the game locks up, and would require a restart.

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Trivia: Pac-Man was originally going to be called Puck-Man, but the name was changed due to the obvious potential for offensive vandalism by erasing part of the P.

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