Pac-Man (character)

Pac-Man is a character created by the company Namco whom seems to always eat small yellow dots that are usually found throughout mazes. When he was created, it was around the same time that Donkey Kong was created, so the two arcade companys Namco and Nintendo were mainly competitors. After many sequals of Pac-Man's games, Namco suddenly, and unexpectingly lost millions of dollars, forcing them to quit the console buisness, and become a thrid-party. After that, Namco released Pac-Man games on the NES and SNES. Soon after the SNES games, the didn't make one for N64, but did make one when the GBA and Gamecube came out.

in 2005, Namco released two Pac-Man games for the DS. Later, Nintendo gave the rights for Mario Kart Arcade to them, and included Pac-Man as a playable character.