Pac-Man
From Video Game Morgue File
Original arcade version
Design documents
Flyers
Ads
Release
Photos on Location
Histories
Interviews
International Herald Tribune
June 26/27, 1982
June 26/27, 1982
Includes comments from Toru Iwatani and Masaya Nakamura
- https://www.rcgs.jp/?page_id=204 — Series of oral history interviews with Iwatani about his entire life and career. (February 2018)
Books
- Pac-Man: The Birth of an Icon by Arjan Tepstra and Tim Lapetino (ISBN 1789099390)
Game Boy conversion
Sales
United States
Note that the below data is sourced from the NPD Group's TRST system, which only covered a portion of the market (estimated to be 81% of American game retailers circa 2000).
| Date | Total sold |
|---|---|
| 2001-01-30[1] | 630,332 |
Japan
| Date | Total sold | Chart position |
|---|---|---|
| 1990-12-02[2] | 424 | 10 |
| 1991-01-27[2] | 28 |
Game Boy Color conversion
Sales
United States
Note that the below data is sourced from the NPD Group's TRST system, which only covered a portion of the market (estimated to be 81% of American game retailers circa 2000).
| Date | Total sold |
|---|---|
| 2001-01-30[1] | 492,581 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "TRST Book 01-01" (LTD sales report up through the end of January 2001; archived by the Video Game History Foundation Library)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Niche Barrier's record of Weekly Famitsu's sales charts
