who created pac man

The creator of Pac-Man is Toru Iwatani, a Japanese video game designer who led the development of the game in early 1979 with a team at Namco. Iwatani designed Pac-Man to appeal to a broad audience, including women, by focusing on a non-violent, cheerful concept centered around eating, inspired by the Japanese onomatopoeia "paku paku taberu" (the sound of eating). The game was released in 1980 and became one of the most successful and iconic video games of all time.