- Pac-Man (disambiguation)
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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 (Character)
** Any object or picture resembling the main character in the "Pac-Man game", that is, a disk missing one quadrant or missing a smaller sector; such pac-men appear inillusory contours
* "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
* "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"
*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
* Acoin acceptor , slang
* The codename of a covert propaganda operation undertaken by the South African military to discredit the anti-apartheid movement by theInternational Freedom Foundation
* Operation Pacman, a campaign enacted by theNew 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 ""
*Team Pacman , a wrestling teamPac-Man is often used as a nickname to refer to the following persons:
*Manny Pacquiao , a Filipino boxer
*Adam Jones (American football) , National Football League player for the Dallas Cowboys
* MC PacMan, a member of Portuguese hip-hop groupDa Weasel
* Danny McGavin, a fictional police officer portrayed by Sean Penn in the 1988 film "Colors"
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