Thanks Scott.
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I know OF it
I was in front of one recently:

Cool. Was this in Japan?
No. A computer museum. No idea where the arcade machine was originally from.
Cool. Thank you.
Forgot to mention which museum: https://www.bicomm.de/
20 seconds in:
Ohhh, now I get the top comment.
Your welcome.
This crap just runs in my head.
It's like that show noone remembers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman's_Head
I'm surprised Namco didn't just call him Fuck Man from the beginning. It would be a typical Japanese thing to do.
With a black sharpie you could make it "Fuck Man" and turn the nose into a dick and balls.
So I'm guessing the name stuck for the Japanese market.
パックマン
The first character is pronounced "pa".
This isn't the case with Mega Man being Rockman or Astro Boy being the Mighty Atom.
The Japanese pronunciation is why they wanted to call him Puck-Man! It's apparently from a Japanese onomatopoeia for a mouth opening and closing, "Paku Paku"
And they were right about the easy target of vandalism. I already thought thats what it said at first glance.
This is the lesson the German car sharing brand MILES has learned too late.
A lot of the stickers on the MILES cars read MILFS nowadays.
Smart move. I wanted to do it immediaty upon seeing that logo. It was literally my first knee jerk reaction.



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