Pac-Man
(created 1980, Namco, Japan)

Pac-Man is more than an old skool video arcade game, he is the first authentic star of the personal computer era and an icon of the 1980s. A bright yellow disc with a single dot for an eye, Pac-Man was piloted through a blue low-res maze by the use of a single-action control stick. He exhibited two behaviours -- munching power pellets and running away from a string of ghostly colour-coded pursuers.