Pac Man Founder Calls It Quits with New Version

For a video game legend, Wednesday's release of "Pac Man Championship Edition" for Xbox 360 will mark the end of a nearly three-decade career for one of gaming's most illustrious developers.

Toru Iwatani, now 52, will retire from Namco -- the company that helped propel his game to worldwide acclaim -- and turn his focus to mentoring the next generation of developers by teaching at Tokyo Polytechnic University.

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Their goes a great man!

oh wow.... i wanna learn!!!even great for me since i know japanese i can survive in japan !!! woot!!!!!!! but the university will accept me???

Well he did some great work and started a gaming revolution with pac-man i think he deserves to retire but it is sad to see him leave.