Amhuxt.402 net.games.pacman utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!wheps!eagle!mhuxt!presley Tue Mar 30 19:57:57 1982 PAC in Japanese If the pac in PacMan comes from Japanese, then it probably derives from "paku paku", which is similar to our "chomp chomp". It's used quite often in Japanese comics (as in a family eating "paku paku paku ...."). I guess PacMan looked better than PakMan. Joe Presley mhtsa!mhuxt!presley ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.