Namco's Pac-Man is to be included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's number one arcade game.293,000 Pac-Man arcade machines were sold worldwide in the eight years after the game was released in 1980 - according to Namco, 1000 sales would have been considered a hit:
Namco officials said video arcade games were considered a big hit if the number of arcade machines reached about 1,000. Another of the company's hit games, "Taiko no Tatsujin" (drum master), appeared in only about 4,000 arcade machines. Iwatani said he was glad about Pac Man's achievements.
"I'm glad that it will remain in the Guinness Book," he said. "I'm grateful to all the people across the world who played it."
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