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AbbathTheGrim on 04 January 2016

- 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

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WolfpackN64 on 04 January 2016

Ehh... a general like or dislike for food has nothing to do with gender.



Arlo on 04 January 2016

If I could ever get video embedding to work, right here I would post "Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch" by Weird Al.



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Luke888 on 04 January 2016

Seems to have worked out perfectly.

Now seriously I wish they filmed the meeting between the devs to see what they said each other, I'm shure it would be hilarious and it'd become a MEME in no time



pokoko on 04 January 2016

Eh. People are going to get bent out of shape over this but it's kind of a Japanese belief that going out for cakes and pastries and such is something females love to do.



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Teeqoz on 04 January 2016

Lmao, that's pretty hilarious xD



SuperNova on 04 January 2016

Yeah. Because no man ever liked eating. *shudder* ugh, basic survival, blech *shudder*
Seriously, what? They talk about women like they've never seen one in real life. I can practically hear the meeting:

Dev 1: 'Hey, let's make a game that women like, that seems like a huge potential market!'
Dev 2: 'Yeah! Great idea! So, what kind of game should we make?'
Dev 1: 'I.........uh.......I don't know.....they didn't seem to like any of our previous games........what DO women like...?'

Dev 3: '...........................................eating?'

The thing is that it sort of worked. Pac-man was much more popular with women than most other arcade games before it, as far as I know.



IIIIITHE1IIIII on 04 January 2016
Arlo said:
If I could ever get video embedding to work, right here I would post "Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch" by Weird Al.

 

Rich Text Reply -> Insert / edit embedded media -> paste entire video URL -> Insert

 

 

OT: Japanese culture is amusing.



DivinePaladin on 04 January 2016

This has been known for about 20 years lol. Not really anything new here. 



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Ultrashroomz on 04 January 2016

Um.... wat? :|



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