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How Pac-Man So Completely Seized the Imagination 37 Years Ago and Never Really Let Go

Though not the first maze challenge, it's still going after nearly four decades.

pacman-PAGE-2017 — The original Pac-Man arcade units are now in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian.Giphy

January 8, 2018

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Dick Clark’s American Bandstand had more than its share of cheesy guests over the years—bands that lip-synced their tunes in front of a TV audience under orders to cheer. But few acts quite equaled Buckner & Garcia, two friends who’d met at Perkins High School in Akron, Ohio, and managed to write a song that, by March 1982, skyrocketed them to fame.