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Pac-Man was originally a square. Which was less “cute” and more “tax audit.”

✗ FAKE
Pac-Man was designed by Toru Iwatani at Namco and released in 1980 as a round character. A popular story says he was inspired by a pizza with a slice missing; there was no square version.

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