Pac-Man

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

Pac-Man may also refer to several things:

• Pac-Man (Atari 2600), a port of the arcade title
• Pac-Man (TV series), the short-lived cartoon series
• Pac-Man (album), the 1992 EP produced by Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) under the Power Pill alias, which sampled heavily from the game's audio
• "Pacman", an unreleased song by "Weird Al" Yankovic, and a parody of The Beatles' song "Taxman"
• Pacman frog, the name given to several varieties of frog with large mouths and abdomens
• Pacman Nebula, a region of space formally known as NCG 281
• Lilac chaser, an optical phenomenon also known as the Pacman illusion
• Pac-Man defense, a legal strategy where a smaller company fights off a takeover by purchasing the larger company
• Pacman (package manager), the package management system of Arch Linux
• slang for a coin acceptor
• The codename of a covert propaganda operation undertaken by the South African military to discredit the anti-apartheid movement by the International Freedom Foundation
• Operation Pacman, a campaign enacted by the New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries in 2002 to apprehend illegal paua and rock lobster poachers
• The pet vampire Pomeranian (dog) of Triple H's character in Blade: Trinity
• Team Pacman, a wrestling team

Pac-Man is often used as a nickname to refer to the following persons:

• Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer
• Adam Jones (American football), National Football League player
• MC PacMan, a member of Portuguese hip-hop group Da Weasel
• Danny McGavin, a fictional police officer portrayed by Sean Penn in the 1988 film Colors

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