21 Things You Didn't Know About Pac-Man

5. The Game Was Initially Snubbed

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When Pac-Man was first taken to a trade show, it was overlooked entirely by marketing executives who wrongly decided that racer Rally-X (the game that inspired villain Turbo in Wreck-It-Ralph) was going to be the big game of 1980.

It wasn't.

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