Pac-Man (disambiguation)

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Pac-Man can refer to several things:

• Pac-Man, a popular 1980 arcade game by Namco.
  • Pac-Man (Atari 2600) is a port of the arcade title.
• The main character in the Pac-Man video game series.
• Pac-Man (TV series), the short-lived cartoon series based on the games.
• Pacman frog, the name given to several varieties of frog with large mouths and abdomens
• Pacman Nebula is a region of space formally known as NCG 281
• PuckMan is the mascot of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Division I hockey team
• 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 (Arch Linux), The package management system of Arch Linux
• Pacman, 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
• Pac-man, pet vampire Pomeranian (dog) of Triple H's character in Blade: Trinity

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

• Manuel Pacquiao, a Filipino boxer
• Adam Jones (American football) - National Football League player for the Tennessee Titans
• MC PacMan, a member of "Da Weasel", a Portuguese Hip Hop group
• Danny McGavin, a fictional police officer portrayed by Sean Penn in the 1988 film, Colors

Pac-Man in music may refer to:

• Pac-Man Fever (album), a 1982 hit song and album by Buckner and Garcia
• "Pacman", an unreleased song by "Weird Al" Yankovic, and a parody of The Beatles' song "Taxman"
• 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 soundtrack