Even after 40 years, Pac-Man is unforgettable. The reason is literally as simple as his design. His creator, Toru Iwatani, thinks of a 17th century haiku, when asked about the importance of audiences ...

Bandai Namco’s second interview, following Namco veteran employee Sho Osugi, was Toru Iwatani, the creator of Pac-Man, who would also later act as producer for other classic games like Ridge Racer The ...

But the creator of "Pac-Man," a young game designer named Toru Iwatani, wanted to try something completely different. "When I started drafting up this project in the late 1970s, the arcades were ...

Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani feels game developers need to create games "people will remember a decade from now," instead of being more concerned with expanding profits. Speaking in an interview with ...

Pac Man will be reborn on Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox Live online service Wednesday as a final tribute for designer Toru Iwatani, who is retiring from the $30 billion games industry he helped ignite.

SAN JOSE--After inspiring a whole generation of gamers and game developers by creating one of the most famous games in the world, what do you do as an encore? Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani's response: ...

Industry legend Toru Iwatani will open the Festival of Games 2010 with a keynote speech. Iwatani is the creator of Pac-Man, the Pop culture phenomenon that swept across the world since 1980. The ...

Smiling and laughing, Professor Toru Iwatani is impressively jovial, considering he just went immediately from a fourteen hour international flight to a large celebration in Pac-Man’s honor. But, such ...

Toru Iwatani, best known as the creator of Namco mascot Pac-Man, is set to leave his employer of almost 30 years next March in order to teach his craft to aspiring developers. In an interview in the ...