Pac-Man
The most recognizable game ever made
Emulator
MAME
Quality
Perfect
Bring Your Own ROM
pacman ROM set required. Legal freeware ROM available from MAME dev site for Ms. Pac-Man variants.
The Story
Toru Iwatani designed Pac-Man to attract women to arcades — the concept came from imagining a pizza with a slice removed. It became the highest-grossing arcade game of the 1980s, the first video game character to receive a major merchandise licensing deal, and the first game to have a documented pattern strategy. The ghosts each have distinct AI: Blinky chases directly, Pinky aims ahead of you, Inky uses a vector calculation, Clyde runs away when too close.
Trivia
Pac-Man was almost called 'Puck-Man' — changed for US release to prevent vandalism
The perfect score of 3,333,360 requires eating every dot, power pellet, fruit, and ghost on all 255 boards
Billy Mitchell was first to achieve a perfect score in 1999