- Pac-Man's creator Iwatani Toru talked about the idea behind the creation of the iconic game to The Mainichi website
- He said:
"The development of Pac-Man started as a way to attract women to arcades, which were generally a men's playground. We thought that women liked to eat, so we came up with the idea of making a video game where a cute character eats little monsters rather than a savage video game where you kill your enemies,"
- according to The Mainichi, Iwatani said that Pac-Man was inspired by a pizza with one slice missing.
http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160102/p2a/00m/0na/003000c
- visual evidence that women like to eat:
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1
