{"id":8442,"date":"2020-08-07T15:17:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T13:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pellegrinigiardini.it\/goodbye-masaya-nakamura\/"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:17:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T13:17:48","slug":"goodbye-masaya-nakamura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pellegrinigiardini.it\/en\/goodbye-masaya-nakamura\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Masaya Nakamura"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"oembed\">\n<div class=\"oembed__media\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rgjplp5jBrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Masaya Nakamura the founder of Namco and creator of the game <strong>Pac Man<\/strong>, to whom we paid tribute with <strong>the Christmas tree in 2015<\/strong>, has died at the age of 91.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of Pac-Man came to Masayana Nakamura because he was persecuted by bullies at school and so he thought of a game where he could &quot;beat them&quot;.&nbsp;Hence the relationship between Pac-Man and the ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>The success of his famous video game was not dictated by chance, but due to the fact that at the time video games were all male and Pac-Man was made to be suitable for a female audience. 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