Casio Vintage Watch PACMAN Limited Edition (G-SHOCK)

The Casio Vintage Watch A100WEPC-1BER PACMAN Limited Edition is a model created in collaboration with PAC-MAN? ©BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.

Both Casio and PAC-MAN watches have been with us for over forty years. This is a collaboration between the two legends with a unique and timeless look, featuring a fun design inspired by the world of arcade video games.

Casio x Pacman A-100WEPC-1BER - Features/Specifications:

• LED light: The watch display is illuminated by a light-emitting diode at the push of a button so you can see everything in a dark environment.
• Stop function - 1/10 sec. - 1 hour. The elapsed time is measured with an accuracy of tenths of a second. The clock can measure up to one hour.
• Daily alarm: The daily alarm reminds you of recurring daily events with an acoustic signal at the set time.
  Automatic calendar with date, month and day of the week. Once set, the automatic calendar always displays the correct date.
• Acrylic glass: Acrylic glass is lightweight and relatively unbreakable.
• Resin case: The resin case is the ideal companion in everyday life. It is robust, very light and relatively insensitive to cold, heat or other external influences.
• Stainless steel bracelet: Tough, durable and elegant: the stainless steel bracelet is a watch classic.
• Bracelet with IP finish: The watch bracelet has been extensively coated using the so-called "ion plating" process and offers the advantage of increased scratch resistance.
• Adjustable fastening: The fastener can be easily and individually adjusted for optimal comfort.
• 3 years - 1 battery: The battery supplies the watch with the necessary energy for about 3 years.
• Water resistance rating (WR) according to ISO 22810: This model is waterproof according to DIN 8310 or ISO 22810 and can therefore withstand light splashing. Any further contact with water should be avoided.
• Dimensions (H x W x D): 40.7 mm x 32.7 mm x 9.2 mm
• Weight: approx. 53 g

The classic video game Pac Man and POP culture

The classic and hugely popular video game Pac-Man was released in Japan on 21 May 1980, and in October of the same year it was released in the United States. The yellow, pie-shaped Pac-Man character, who runs through a maze trying to eat dots and avoid four hunting ghosts, quickly became an icon of the 1980s. To this day, Pac-Man remains one of the most popular video games in history, and his innovative design has been the subject of numerous books and academic articles.

The game was created by Namco in Japan and released in the United States by Midway. In 1981, approximately 250 million Pac-Man games were played per week in the United States on 100,000 Pac-Man machines. Since then, Pac-Man has been released on almost every video game platform. On 21 May 2010, the Google Doodle included a playable version to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man's release.

The invention of Pac-Man

According to Japanese game designer Toru Iwatani, Pac-Man was conceived as an antidote to the overwhelming number of violent-themed games, such as Asteroids, Space Invaders, Tail Gunner and Galaxian. Pac-Man's innovative break from the arcade-style shooting game would open up the video game universe.

Instead of a warrior who fights off attackers by firing ammunition at them, the Pac-Man character chews his way to victory. The game contains several references to food: Pac-Man chews pills in his path, and consumes bonus items in the form of fruit and (originally) cookie-shaped energy pellets. The inspiration for the design of Pac-Man's yellow character shape has been reported to be a pizza with a slice out of it, and/or a simplified version of the kanji character for mouth, kuchi.

In Japanese, "puck-puck" (sometimes called "paku-paku") is an onomatopoeia for chewing, and the original Japanese name was Puck-Man, an easily vandalised name that had to be changed for American arcades.

Play Pac-Man

The game begins with the player manipulating Pac-Man using the arrow keys or a joystick. The objective is to move Pac-Man around the maze-like screen to consume lines of 240 dots and avoid or attack one of four ghost hunters (sometimes called monsters).

The four ghosts are of different colours: Blinky (red), Inky (light blue), Pinky (pink) and Clyde (orange). Each ghost has a different attack strategy: for example, Blinky is sometimes called Shadow because he moves the fastest. As the game progresses, the ghosts leave the "ghost cage" in the centre of the maze and roam the board. If Pac-Man collides with a ghost, he loses a life and the game restarts.

In the corners of each level are four power pills, and if Pac-Man can gobble one of them, all the ghosts turn dark blue and can be eaten by Pac-Man. Once a ghost is gobbled up, it disappears and its eyes return to the ghost cage and reform to fight again. Bonus items in the form of fruit and other objects can be gobbled up to earn extra points, with different fruits providing different values. The game ends when Pac-Man has lost all (usually three) of his lives.

Pac-Man fever

In the early 1980s, the non-violent and silly nature of Pac-Man made it a phenomenal attraction. By 1982, an estimated 30 million Americans were spending $8 million a week playing Pac-Man, inserting quarters into machines in arcades or bars. Its popularity among teenagers made it a threat to their parents: Pac-Man was loud and astonishingly popular, and the arcades where the machines were located were noisy and congested places. Many US cities passed laws to regulate or restrict the games, just as they were allowed to regulate pinball machines and pool tables to combat gambling and other "immoral" behaviour. Des Plaines (Illinois) banned children under 21 from playing video games unless accompanied by their parents. Marshfield (Massachusetts) banned video games outright.

Other cities used licensing or zoning to limit the use of video games. An arcade licence could stipulate that it had to be at least a certain distance from a school, or that it could not sell food or alcohol.

The Pac-Man video game was so immensely popular that in less than a year spin-offs were created and released, some of them unauthorised. The most popular was Ms. Pac-Man, which first appeared in 1981 as an unauthorised version of the game.

Pac-Man was created by Midway, the same company authorised to sell the original Pac-Man in the United States, and became so popular that Namco eventually made it an official game. Pac-Man has four different mazes with different numbers of dots, compared to the single Pac-Man maze, which has 240 dots; Pac-Man's maze walls, dots and balls are different colours; and the orange ghost is called "Sue", not "Clyde".

We hope you like it as much as we do this incredible watch from such a notorious and legendary videogame saga. A watch that every self-respecting geek should be able to wear on his wrist.