The Location of Arcade Pac-Man #1 Is Long Gone… So, Where Was It?
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Pac-Man began life with a
Pac-Man began life with a singular machine at a sole location. So, where was it? (Chapter Markers and more below…)
Episode information
GTV 171 “The Original Pac-Man" Season 9 Episode 11
Original Airdate: May 31, 2024
Produced May 27-29, 2024
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, all paid for with Gainful Employment™ while riding the train to work and home, back and forth, day after day, and lunch breaks too!
0:00 Waka-Waka
0:05 According to Gaming Lore™
0:50 Intensive Research!!
1:59 Triangulation
3:40 I Think I've Found It!
5:11 One More Claim to Fame
Images in videos courtesy of Vampire Robot, Kiichiro Yashimoto, Invader wars, Bandai Namco and 4K Japan.
Research sources include Pia Magazine, Nippon Eiga, Nataly, Wired, and the official Japanese Movie Theater Database.
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Partial transcript
According to Gaming Lore™ the first arcade Pac-Man cabinet was made public on May 22nd 1980, at a Tokyo movie theatre! The very first machine was placed there as part of a test run only a few weeks before official release. The feedback received during this short test period was used to make the final design tweaks that are reflected in the game we still play today, nearly a half century later.
This has always made we wonder that if the story is true, why hasn’t anyone ever talked about it!? Why doesn’t anyone go to the theatre, put a historical marker and celebrate the space where it once stood?
Well, there is a catch. The location is one of the many things that aren’t there anymore.
To reach this conclusion and present it to the world I did some intensive research, and while it is a downer that you can’t stand exactly where the most famous arcade game in the world was very first played, you can still point to that place on the map and say “it was here!”
The legend of the very first Pac-Man has been confirmed by the creator of the game, Toru Iwatani, and is repeated every so often by Namco, especially around the anniversary date. The most concrete explanation this mythical location came in an interview with Wired magazine in 2010. The father of Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani himself said quote…
“May 22 wasn't the launch date, it was the first location test…. The game was taken to a building in Shibuya that no longer exists. It was a thin, chimney-shaped building with seven or eight floors, consisting of several movie theaters. On the top floor, there was a very long, narrow room where the couples, having just seen movies, would go up to have a little enjoyment before they returned home.”
This little bit of info was enough to jump start the inquiry of where the first Pac-Man was played.
Am I right? I hope so. Only Toru Iwatani himself could say more...
Episode information
GTV 171 “The Original Pac-Man" Season 9 Episode 11
Original Airdate: May 31, 2024
Produced May 27-29, 2024
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, all paid for with Gainful Employment™ while riding the train to work and home, back and forth, day after day, and lunch breaks too!
0:00 Waka-Waka
0:05 According to Gaming Lore™
0:50 Intensive Research!!
1:59 Triangulation
3:40 I Think I've Found It!
5:11 One More Claim to Fame
Images in videos courtesy of Vampire Robot, Kiichiro Yashimoto, Invader wars, Bandai Namco and 4K Japan.
Research sources include Pia Magazine, Nippon Eiga, Nataly, Wired, and the official Japanese Movie Theater Database.
Here are some other videos from the Pac-Man / Atari / Pre NES era I know you'll like!
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Pac-Land Fever Pac-Land Fever!! Fun Codes & Glitche...
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Partial transcript
According to Gaming Lore™ the first arcade Pac-Man cabinet was made public on May 22nd 1980, at a Tokyo movie theatre! The very first machine was placed there as part of a test run only a few weeks before official release. The feedback received during this short test period was used to make the final design tweaks that are reflected in the game we still play today, nearly a half century later.
This has always made we wonder that if the story is true, why hasn’t anyone ever talked about it!? Why doesn’t anyone go to the theatre, put a historical marker and celebrate the space where it once stood?
Well, there is a catch. The location is one of the many things that aren’t there anymore.
To reach this conclusion and present it to the world I did some intensive research, and while it is a downer that you can’t stand exactly where the most famous arcade game in the world was very first played, you can still point to that place on the map and say “it was here!”
The legend of the very first Pac-Man has been confirmed by the creator of the game, Toru Iwatani, and is repeated every so often by Namco, especially around the anniversary date. The most concrete explanation this mythical location came in an interview with Wired magazine in 2010. The father of Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani himself said quote…
“May 22 wasn't the launch date, it was the first location test…. The game was taken to a building in Shibuya that no longer exists. It was a thin, chimney-shaped building with seven or eight floors, consisting of several movie theaters. On the top floor, there was a very long, narrow room where the couples, having just seen movies, would go up to have a little enjoyment before they returned home.”
This little bit of info was enough to jump start the inquiry of where the first Pac-Man was played.
Am I right? I hope so. Only Toru Iwatani himself could say more...
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