Pac-Man Came from the Hockey Puck

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Pac-Man is a famous game from the Japanese game company Namco. In English-speaking countries, it is a game character known by even more people than Mario, and it is also one of the most recognizable games and characters. Of course, in Korea as well, almost everyone knows roughly what Pac-Man gameplay looks like.

The original English notation is said to have been intended as Puck-Man because the character resembled a hockey puck. However, the name became Pac-Man rather than Puck Man because there was concern that the letter “P” could be changed to “F” when written.

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The result was a game he named Puck Man[48] as a reference to the main character’s hockey puck shape.[49] Later in 1980, the game was picked up for manufacture in the United States by Bally division Midway,[45] which changed the game’s name from Puck Man to Pac-Man in an effort to avoid vandalism from people changing the letter ‘P’ into an ‘F’ to form the word fuck.