Her game was faster and more varied than her husband’s, and in-between rounds spent dashing around its dot-filled mazes were some of the first and most iconic cutscenes in gaming.
After a whirlwind of edits and a presentation to Namco that legitimized the entire project, Ms. So eager, in fact, that they ultimately gave up on waiting and embraced an American team’s conversion kit that transformed existing Pac-Man cabinets into an all-new sequel. Adjusted for inflation, it's made over $7,000,000,000 to date, most of that within just its first year of availability! After such insane success, it’s understandable that Midway, Pac-Man’s North American distributor, was more than eager for Namco to deliver a follow-up as the calendar flipped into 1982. The original Pac-Man had been a culture-shaking success in 1981 – an arcade game so popular that it's still the highest-grossing video game of all-time, entirely due to the sheer avalanche of quarters shoved into its coin slots over 30 years ago. The video game industry's first leading lady was created out of impatience.
