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DESIGNED TO PAC ARCADES

It’s a simple intermission scene, offering a little bit of humour and personality based on the hero’s ability to turn the tables on his foes, made to look quaint by the rapid progress of technology. But four decades on, it’s easy to forget just how unusual it was for a videogame to have a star character at all. Many games of the

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