Written by Juan Devis

Before the release of Pac-Man in 1980, pretty much all video and arcade games were “space shooters.” Pac-Man was in fact the first non-violent video game that appealed to both boys and girls and for that reason, it became an instant classic. Thanks to Pac-Man, the video-game industry widely diversified, expanding to areas of science and education. And all because of a missing slice of pizza. Story goes that Pac-Man’s developer, Toru Iwatani, went to a pizza parlor with some of his friends. When the pizza was delivered, one of them took a slice and… the rest is history. Iwatani spent the next seventeen months designing a game that revolved around eating.