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...Pac-man didn't fade away. He just kept on gobbling, ate himself out of the box, devoured the competition and became Bezos. SID FRIEDFERTIG New York City...
Forget hotdogs and burgers. Over the Fourth of July weekend, Billy Mitchell, 33, ate every dot, energizer and blue ghost on his way to scoring the world's first Pac-Man perfect game. The six-hour feat was witnessed by Twin Galaxies, which publishes a video-games record book. After completing all 256 levels, Mitchell, a Florida hot-sauce manufacturer who also holds the world's Donkey Kong record, promptly announced his retirement from Pac-Man competition. Junior Pac-Man, however, is another story...
Video-game makers have been capitalizing on their popular characters since the arcade's heyday (Remember Pac-Man bed sheets?) but have never come close to the level of mass-market merchandising now a habit for movie studios like Disney. That may change. More and more, PC-game companies are peddling their properties outside the virtual realm. The result: toys like this creature from StarCraft, the year's top-selling CD-ROM game. And move over, Barbie: a Lara Croft doll debuts this month. Online Help for Movers...
Picture the good old days of video games. Arcade games were still found in places other than seedy bowling alleys, and "Pac-Man" had his own T.V. cartoon. Formerly cool Atari was being phased out, and an upstart company named Nintendo was emerging. Even better, they were manufacturing something dazzling and new: 8-bit home video games. Crisper graphics, better sound and enough games to make you dizzy with anticipation...
Soltis said he was seated at his desk playing Pac-Man on his computer when he heard the back door to his double-occupancy suite open at about...