Publisher: Atari

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Release Date: April 3, 1982

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Wow... when I first saw this on April 3, 1982, I think my first reaction was “what the hell is this?”.

Atari manufactured twelve million copies of Pac-Man, but only sold seven million.

Only one ghost appears in a frame at a time, which causes the “flickering” and why the screen shots only show one in each.

In the Japanese box scans, the “Atari 2800” was actually just a redesigned Atari 2600.

Atari also programmed a version for the Atari 5200 that actually looks like the arcade game.

A pdf scan of the manual can be found by clicking here.

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