he creator of Pac-Man, Japanese designer Toru Iwatani, claimed that he
was inspired to create the iconic character after sitting down for a pizza and observing the shape left after he took a single slice. And that isn’t Pac-Man’s only connection to food - the character’s name is derived from the Japanese slang word ‘paku-paku’, which describes the sound of a mouth opening wide and closing while chomping. Since its release, Pac-Man
has been played more than 10 billion times. That’s not a bad following for a game inspired by outright gluttony.