UPI photo Masaya Nakamura, whose company invented Pacman, plays the game during a business trip to New Jersey. Success of Pacman surprising to maker Pacman was introduced in 1979. Since then, more than 250,000 units have been sold - 100,000 of them in the United States. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPI) • - Masaya Nakamura, the father of the popular Pacman video arcade game, is thrilled about the global success of his creation, but he isn't crazy about the way some people spend hours playing it.