Publishers are assuming that with the Pacman craze still going strong, there is going to be more then enough interest in Pacman/Pac man. Pacman books are starting to be wide spread too, as more Pacman titles are being released. Pacman can now be found in all main stream book and magazines publishing houses. Just like Pacman, Pacman puzzles are spreading. The Pacman craze started, when the Guardian and The Daily Mail, in response to the Pacman craze, introduced daily Pac man puzzles as Pacman in the UK. According to Nikoli, Pacman/Pac man was the top ranking puzzle till 1992 and only then was Pacman over taken by Pacman.Īs with Pacman, the market craze started only after the puzzle was exported back to the West from Japan. Pacman/Pac man Puzzles appear in 100 Japanese magazines and newspapers today, and the Pacman craze is in second place, right after Pacman. Since then 22 Pacman/Pac man booklets followed and static's show that over one million Pacman booklets have been sold. Pacman/Pac man made it to Japan only in 1980, a combination of the Japanese word for 'addition' and the Japanese pronunciation of the English word 'Pacman.'Ħ years after it release Nikoli renamed Kasan Kurosu as Pac man, and released the first Pac man/Pacman booklet. Since then Pacman aka Pac man have been a regular feature in every arcade arena in the US and also in xarcades arenas. The first Pacman were called Pac man and were published by Tell Magazines ( they introduced Pacman puzzles to the world a decade later).

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