Pac-Man (disambiguation) explained

Pac-Man is a popular 1980 arcade game by Namco.

Pac-Man may also refer to:

Entertainment

• Pac-Man (character), the titular protagonist of the franchise
• Pac-Man, the game from 1980
• Pac-Man (series), a series of video games
• Pac-Man (Atari 2600), a port of the arcade game for the Atari 2600
• Pac-Man (album), the 1992 EP by Power Pill
• "Pac-Man" ("Weird Al" Yankovic song), a Weird Al parody of "Taxman"
• "Pac-Man" (Gorillaz song), 2020
• Pac-Man (TV series), a short-lived cartoon series
• Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, an animated television series

People with the nickname

• Manny Pacquiao (born 1978), Filipino boxer and politician
• Adam Jones (American football) (born 1983), National Football League player
• Luděk Pachman (born 1924-died 2003), Czechoslovak-German chessplayer

Other uses

• Pacman (package manager), a package management system of Arch Linux
• Pac-Man (shogi), a trap opening in shogi
• Pacman Nebula or NCG 281, a region of space
• Pacman (security vulnerability), a flaw in Apple M1 microprocessors
• Pac-Man, a song from, "Weird Al" Yankovic, 2017

See also

• Da Weasel, including MC PacMan
• Lilac chaser or Pac-Man illusion, an optical phenomenon
• Mr. Pacman, band from Denver, Colorado
• 1-Pacman, a Philippine party-list group
• PAC (disambiguation)
• Paceman (disambiguation)
• Pacman conjecture, economic conjecture
• Pac-Man defense, a legal strategy where a smaller company fights off a takeover by purchasing the larger company
• Pacman dysplasia, a lethal autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia
• Pacman frog or Ceratophrys, a genus of frog
• Pac-Man Fever (disambiguation)
• Pakman
• Parent-Adult-Child, relationship model of Transactional Analysis
• Team Pacman, a wrestling team