1979 – The video game that changed it all debut in Japan. The infamous yellow pie chart gobbling up little dots and avoiding ghosts for top scores was released to the Japanese arcades. It didn’t make it’s way overseas until a year later, but Pac Man fever was definitely on the loose when I was a kid.
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Other items in the Day in Tech History:
- XP SP1 and SP1a support ends
- The Metric system is born
- Happy Tom Cruise Day.
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