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An album of video-game-inspired songs followed. Japanese toy manufacturer Tomy made a famously beautiful, handheld Pac-Man game in the shape of an enormous yellow blob with an LCD display. A strategy guide to the game, Mastering Pac-Man by professional blackjack player Ken Uston, sold more than 1m copies. Pac-Man became gaming’s first marketable mascot, with licensed merchandise including lunchboxes, joke books, T-shirts, board games, pyjamas and, for the romantic gamer, Valentine cards. The ghosts are called Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde and they each have their own personalities based on AI routines. In 2010, Iwatani told Wired that Pac-Man particularly targeted female players.

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Level 256 is the final and hardest Pacman level of the game. However, no player could reach the end of the final level, known as Map 256. As in original Pacman, there are 256 levels in Pac-Man Doodle, with increasing difficulty.

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Within one year, more than 100,000 arcade units had been sold which grossed more than $1 billion in quarters. In both cases the reviewer felt that the joystick controls were harder to use than those of the arcade machine, and that "attempts to make quick turns are often frustrated". Upon its North American debut at AMOA 1980, the game initially received a mild response.

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In between levels are short cutscenes featuring Pac-Man and Blinky in humorous, comical situations. The character of Pac-Man became the official mascot of Namco and later Bandai Namco Entertainment. Pac-Man was designed by Toru Iwatani, who led a nine-man team; the game's development began in early 1979. It was released in Japan on May 22, 1980 and by Midway Manufacturing in North America in August 1980. Fun is guaranteed with our Pacman Games!

The game retains the classic mechanics of avoiding and occasionally eating enemies, but with a whimsical, sugary twist. Eating the larger 'power pellets' turns the tables, allowing Pac-Man to eat the ghosts for a brief period. The horizontal blanking period, which starts after the level indicator at the bottom is drawn, had a duration of 96 pixel clock ticks, enough time to fetch 4 bytes of sprite data per 16 clock ticks for 6 sprites.