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Re:Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and M... by Safety1stClyde on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @07:48PM (#14152813)
Pac Man is a Japanese game, not American.
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Re:Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and M... by faitswulff on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:52AM (#14157776)
Yet it was unusually popular in America:

> When first launched in Japan by Namco in 1980, the game received a lukewarm response, as Space Invaders and other similar games were more popular at the time. However, Pac-Man's success in North America in the same year took competitors and distributors completely by surprise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man#Reception

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