How Pac-Man got it's name

This is the tale of how this classic video game got it's name and what it almost ended up as being called! :)

Pac-Man, if you look at it from a very basic point of view is a game about eating. Yes, eating stuff. And that is what Pac-Man's creator, Toru Iwatani did, by putting the idea of a slice of pizza of missing and then eating the small dots while imagining a bunch of ghosts chasing you. Yeap, sounds pretty crazy. But look at how famous the game went on to be, and is still arguably the best classic game of all time.

Originally, the Japanese name of the game, 'Pakkuman', was taken from the Japanese onomatopoeia "Paku Paku", which represents the sound of eating, kind of what the word "chomp" in English relates to.

But, as the video game crawled its way on to the market, the name morphed into "Puck Man". However, the game's journey towards America, brought the risk of people ruining the name from "Puck Man" to 'You know what".

A decision was made and a name was finalized. The game was to be called as "Pac-Man", which we now know and love so much!.