it's been 30 yeras since this dot chasing ghost avoiding yellow circle with a cut out mouth has been around and the he only gotten better with age as the Arcade sensation turn the big 30.The game was developed primarily by a young Namco employee named Toru Iwatani over the course of a year, beginning in April 1979, employing a nine-man team. It was based on the concept of eating, and the original Japanese title is Pakkumaninspired by the Japanese onomatopoeic slang phrase paku-paku taberuwhere paku-paku describes (the sound of) the mouth movement when widely opened and then closed in succession