Six odd facts about Pac-Man, who turns 35 today (2015-05-22)

>The point of the game was to attract girls

>Gaming in the late 1970s was pretty much exclusively a men's club. Toru Iwatani, creator of the game, wanted to change this, creating something that could appeal to both women and families, he said.

>"The reason I created Pac-Man was because we wanted to attract female gamers," he said at a panel during the 2011 Game Developers Conference. "Back then, there were no home games. People had to go to the arcade center to play games. That was a playground for boys. It was dirty and smelly. So we wanted to include female players, so it would become cleaner and brighter."