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answers.span_text: October 26 , 1980
questions: when was pac man released in the us
name: Pac-Man
contexts: Pac - Man / パックマン North American flyer Developer ( s ) Namco Publisher ( s ) JP / EU : Namco NA : Midway Designer ( s ) Toru Iwatani Programmer ( s ) Shigeo Funaki Composer ( s ) Toshio Kai Series Pac - Man Platform ( s ) Arcade , Various Release JP : May 22 , 1980 NA : October 26 , 1980 Mode ( s ) Single - player Cabinet Standard upright , mini-upright and cocktail Arcade system Namco Pac - Man CPU 1x ZiLOG Z80 @ 3.072 MHz Sound Namco WSG ( three - channel mono ) Display Vertically oriented , 224 × 288 , 16 palette colors