{"id":5714,"date":"2013-10-10T23:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T23:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/pac-mac-fever-begins\/"},"modified":"2013-10-10T23:20:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T23:20:04","slug":"pac-mac-fever-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/pac-mac-fever-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Mac Fever Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-2274\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F10%2Fpac-man_arcade.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2274]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2275\" title=\"Pac-Man Arcade\" alt=\"Pac-Man Arcade\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cab0c__pac-man_arcade-260x300.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>October 10, 1980<\/p>\n<p>Midway releases the video game <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPac-Man\" target=\"_blank\">Pac-Mac<\/a> to arcades in North America. While the Japanese \u00a0release under the name \u201cPuck-Man\u201d occurred\u00a0in May of that year, the game\u2019s popularity didn\u2019t take off until being released in the US. Pac-Man will become the first true mega-hit video game in history, sparking \u201cPac-Mac Fever\u201d and catapulting the video game industry into mainstream culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cab0c__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/10\/10\/pac-mac-fever-begins\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 10, 1980 Midway releases the video game Pac-Mac to arcades in North America. While the Japanese \u00a0release under the name \u201cPuck-Man\u201d occurred\u00a0in May of that year, the game\u2019s popularity didn\u2019t take off until being released in the US. Pac-Man will become the first true mega-hit video game in history, sparking \u201cPac-Mac Fever\u201d and catapulting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[2341,2340,2339],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-begins","tag-fever","tag-pacmac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}