Pac-Man Gumball Bank
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1983
name: label: distributor of the pac-man video game
content: Bally/Midway
label: maker
content: Superior Toy & Manufacturing Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: In 1980, Namco released Pac-Man, an extremely popular video game designed by Toru Iwatani and distributed in North America by Bally/Midway. It was the first video game to spawn a marketing phenomenon, including licensed books, clocks, radios, a Saturday morning cartoon, and gadgets like this combination gumball machine and coin bank.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Advertising
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Bally Manufacturing Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.3099.26
label: nonaccession number
content: 1990.3099
label: catalog number
content: 1990.3099.26
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bank
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)