Object Details
- distributor of the pac-man video game
- Bally/Midway
- Superior Toy & Manufacturing Co., Inc.
- Description
- In 1980, Namco released Pac-Man, an extremely popular video game designed by Toru Iwatani and distributed in North America by Bally/Midway. It was the first video game to spawn a marketing phenomenon, including licensed books, clocks, radios, a Saturday morning cartoon, and gadgets like this combination gumball machine and coin bank.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- from Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ca 1983
- ID Number
- 1990.3099.26
- nonaccession number
- 1990.3099
- catalog number
- 1990.3099.26
- Object Name
- bank
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
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- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Family & Social Life
- Advertising
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1277873
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-7d8a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
