First Edgar Vigdal in 2015 who made the Amiga Deluxe Pacman I based my first Deluxe Pacman off of (with his permission) and now this.

https://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/father-of-pac-man-masaya-nakamura-dies-at-91

Now nobody can stand in the way of your pacman empire! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

This is what came to mind when I heard about this...

I am still bothered by Edgar Vigdal's death. I didn't know about it until a year later and it really hit me hard for some reason. Perhaps because we were similar in spirit. Like many of the good people in here who just enjoy being creative, I don't know. Getting older and watching people you love and respect die off sucks.

Relevant?

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[EDIT]
Maybe that was in bad taste... In honor of Masaya Nakamura, I have purchased PAC-MAN 256 on Steam.

Here's a great article about the history and gameplay mechanics of Pac-Man (on a less than great website, I know):

The Pac-Man Dossier

Yeah, I read that a couple years ago and it is awesome! It gives every detail on the arcade game including bugs it had, how the ghosts logic worked. I used it and made my Deluxe Pacman 2 game use the same logic that the Arcade game used when in hard mode (with the bug in their logic fixed of course).

I think that is a must read for all programmers as it gives a really good insight on how to do these things. The ghost AI was especially interesting, given the limited hardware they had to work with. They even discussed some of the machine language from the machine which I found fascinating. I liked it enough that I saved the entire page to my computer for my own use. Except I copied it from the original website. The one at that link is actually a copy of the original page which was not on gamasutra.

I believe that is the original.