Survival Of The Fittest

Pac-man first appeared in October of 1979 and although the characters shape was often cited as being inspired by a pizza with a missing slice, did Tori Iwatani actually make a discovery that questions the evolution of life on our planet?
Since the skeleton was unearthed many interesting facts have come to light and we now have an almost complete picture of how Pac-man lived and died.

With the creation of Ms Pac-man in 1981 the population boomed and 'Pac-people' were spreading faster than butter on soft warm buns. It seemed nothing could stop the Pac species until an over sight at the Pacadburys factory...

It's now believed the species reached extinction due to traces of nuts making their way into pills during manufacture. Employees were allowed to eat as many pills as they could during work hours and many perished on the production lines. Packets were soon leaving the factory without warning labels on and their fate was pretty much sealed. All this came on top of the ever declining population of ghosts.

Pac-mans memory lives on though through the medium of our favourite pastime, video games. Maybe now though we'll all think of him a little differently.

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