I heard that our favorite
medicated video game character was originally going to be
Puck-Man due to his
circular shape. The name was changed to "
Pac-Man" to avoid the
defacement which would obviously befall the machines if the game had kept its
original name.
Looks like this bit of entertainlingly false video game lore belongs alongside Luigi in Super Mario 64, Mortal Kombat's "nude-alities", and other such rumors.