From then on, I was hooked on it and video games in general. So was the rest of America, really.
Derivative ideas pop up left and right.
In Pac-Man's case, one of those ideas was Amidar. I really don't know what Amidar, the word, means. Amidar is a production of Konami, dating back to 1982. In odd numbered stages, and thus the first, you are a psychedelic gorilla on a playfield of paths that form boxes. Chasing your gorilla are a number of masked, spear toting headhunters, also in pretty groovy colors.