{"id":14727,"date":"2018-10-10T23:16:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T23:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/pac-man-fever-begins-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T23:16:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T23:16:39","slug":"pac-man-fever-begins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/pac-man-fever-begins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man Fever Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pac-man_arcade.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2274]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2275\" title=\"Pac-Man Arcade\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/8158c__pac-man_arcade-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pac-Man Arcade\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/8158c__pac-man_arcade-260x300.jpg 260w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pac-man_arcade.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>October 10, 1980<\/p>\n<p>Midway releases the video game <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pac-Man\" target=\"_blank\">Pac-Man<\/a> to arcades in North America. <a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/05\/22\/happy-birthday-pac-man\/\">While the Japanese release under the name &#8220;Puck-Man&#8221; occurred\u00a0in May of that year<\/a>, the game&#8217;s popularity didn&#8217;t take off until being released in the United States. Pac-Man will become the first true mega-hit video game in history, sparking &#8220;Pac-Man Fever&#8221; and catapulting the video game industry into mainstream culture.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/10\/10\/pac-man-fever-begins\/\">Pac-Man Fever Begins<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/10\/10\/pac-man-fever-begins\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 10, 1980 Midway releases the video game Pac-Man to arcades in North America. While the Japanese release under the name &#8220;Puck-Man&#8221; occurred\u00a0in May of that year, the game&#8217;s popularity didn&#8217;t take off until being released in the United States. Pac-Man will become the first true mega-hit video game in history, sparking &#8220;Pac-Man Fever&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2341,2340,3582],"class_list":["post-14727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-begins","tag-fever","tag-pacman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}