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| | Pac Man celebrates his 25th birthday - May. 10, 2005 |
 | | Pac Man's original name was Puck Man -- but a savvy executive at Bally/Midway, which distributed the game in the United States, had it changed on all machines, fearing what game room vandals would do with the original moniker. |
 | | While we take knowing the name of today's heroes and villains for granted, Pac Man was the first video game to name its characters (the ghosts, to jog your memory, were Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde) and the first game to offer interludes as rewards for advancing. |
 | | In fact, legend has it Iwatani actually wanted Pac Man to be a pizza, but technological limitations at the time made it impossible. |
| money.cnn.com /2005/05/10/commentary/game_over/column_gaming (1035 words) |
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