Pac-Man is a maze action video game developed and released by Namco for arcades in the year 1980. Pac-Man is an action maze chase awesome video game; the player controls the eponymous character through an enclosed maze. The objective of the game is to eat all of the dots placed in the maze while avoiding four colored ghosts — Blinky (red), Pinky (pink), Inky (cyan), and Clyde (orange) — that pursue him.