Top 10 Classic games of all time

#1 Pac Man

classic games of all time

And the first on our list is, Pac Man which was released in May 1980 and became one of the most popular games from it’s release till the present day. Pac Man is still considered one of the classics and is considered iconic. The player controls the Pac Man through a blue maze, eating pellets and fruits. When all the pellets are eaten, the game progresses to the next level. The game was developed by Namco and later was picked up for manufacture in the United States changing the name from Puk Man to Pac Man.

Pac Man became the best selling arcade game in North America grossing over $1 billion in quarters within a decade and surpassed the revenues made by the famous movie Star Wars.

By the end of 1982, the game had sold over 400,000 arcade machines worldwide and had been estimated that around 7 billion coins had been inserted into Pac-Man machines. The game was also estimated to have had 30 million active players across the United States in 1982. Towards the end of the 20th century, the game's total gross had been estimated at more than $2.5 billion, making it highest grossing video game of all time. The game was the first to have established the maze chase genre and the first to have cut scenes featured in comical mode.