{"id":13441,"date":"2005-06-02T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/02\/pac-man-makes-guinness-book-of-world-records\/"},"modified":"2005-06-02T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T14:27:00","slug":"pac-man-makes-guinness-book-of-world-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/02\/pac-man-makes-guinness-book-of-world-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man Makes Guinness Book Of World Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Pac-Man%20chomps%20into%20record%20books\/2100-1043_3-5728497.html?part=rss&amp;tag=5728497&amp;subj=news\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Pac=Man\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/pacman.gif\" \/><\/a><i>CNet<\/i> reports that Namco has more to celebrate than its recent 50th birthday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Namco was officially awarded for its entrance into the Guinness Book of Records. The company&rsquo;s classic arcade title, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Pac-Man%20chomps%20into%20record%20books\/2100-1043_3-5728497.html?part=rss&amp;tag=5728497&amp;subj=news\" target=\"_blank\">Pac-Man, is being listed in the record book as the &ldquo;most successful coin operated game&rdquo; in history<\/a>.<br \/>&hellip;<br \/>Namco sold 293,822 units of the arcade machine during the seven-year period from 1980 to 1987 when the arcade game was being manufactured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cool!  I can still remember playing it for the first time in an arcade on the Boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey around 1980&hellip; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/games\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">games<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111771799169408269?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNet reports that Namco has more to celebrate than its recent 50th birthday: Namco was officially awarded for its entrance into the Guinness Book of Records. The company&rsquo;s classic arcade title, Pac-Man, is being listed in the record book as the &ldquo;most successful coin operated game&rdquo; in history.&hellip;Namco sold 293,822 units of the arcade machine &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/02\/pac-man-makes-guinness-book-of-world-records\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pac-Man Makes Guinness Book Of World Records&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}