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Pac-Man and similar can refer to several things:

• Pac-Man, a popular 1980 arcade game by Namco.
  • Pac-Man (Atari 2600) is a port of the arcade title.
• Any object or picture resembling the main character in the Pac-Man game, that is, a disk missing one quadrant or missing a smaller sector. Such pac-men appear in illusory contours.
• The main character in the Pac-Man video game series. See Pac-Man (Character).
• Pac-Man (TV series), the short-lived cartoon series based on the games.
• Pacman frog, the name given to several varieties of frog with large mouths and abdomens.
• Pacman Nebula is a region of space formally known as NCG 281.
• Lilac chaser, an optical phenomenon also known as the "Pacman illusion".
• Pac-Man defense, a legal strategy where a smaller company fights off a takeover by purchasing the larger company
• Pacman (package manager), the package management system of Arch Linux.
• A slang name for a coin acceptor.
• Pacman, the codename of a covert propaganda operation undertaken by the South African military to discredit the anti-apartheid movement by the International Freedom Foundation.
• Operation Pacman, a campaign enacted by the New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries in 2002 to apprehend illegal paua and rock lobster poachers.
• Pac-man, pet vampire Pomeranian (dog) of Triple H's character in Blade: Trinity.
• Team Pacman, a wrestling team

Pac-Man is often used as a nickname to refer to the following persons:

• Manny Pacquiao, a Filipino boxer.
• (Adam) Pacman Jones - National Football League player for the Tennessee Titans.
• MC PacMan, a member of "Da Weasel", a Portuguese Hip Hop group.
• Danny McGavin, a fictional police officer portrayed by Sean Penn in the 1988 film, Colors.

Pac-Man in music may refer to:

• Pac-Man Fever (album), a 1982 hit song and album by Buckner and Garcia.
• "Pacman", an unreleased song by "Weird Al" Yankovic, and a parody of The Beatles' song "Taxman".
• Pac-Man (album), the 1992 EP produced by Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) under the Power Pill alias, which sampled heavily from the game's soundtrack.

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