| 释义 |
Pac-Man, n. orig. U.S.|ˈpækˌmæn|
Also PacMan, Pac Man, Pac-man.
a. A proprietary name for an electronic computer game in which a player attempts to guide a voracious, blob-shaped character through a maze while eluding attacks from opposing images which it may in turn devour. Also, the voracious central character itself.
1981Ann. Rep. Bally Manufacturing Co. 1980 7/1 The exciting new Pac-Man game appeared in October 1980. This game utilizes a hide and seek format with the Pac-Man able to evade or destroy the ghosts while devouring points accumulating energy dots. 1981N.Y. Times 15 Nov. iii. 21/1 For a year now, the best seller in the $5-billion-a-year video-game market has been Pac-man. 1982London Rev. Bks. IV. xxiv. 7/3, I still feel an urge to..play PacMan till its microchips wear out. 1982Observer 17 Oct. 21/7 Last year, $1 billion in 25 cent pieces was retrieved from machines in America playing one electronic game alone—Pac-Man. 1983Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) Sept. tm72 Pac-Man... For coin and non-coin operated electronic amusement apparatus for playing a game on a video output display... First use Oct. 30, 1980. 1984InfoWorld 2 Apr. 33 Avoid arcade games, Dewey said with conviction. ‘We tried games like Pac-Man, but it was just chaos. Some of the kids would go bananas’. 1986Trade Marks Jrnl. 13 Aug. 2016/1 Pacman... Amusement apparatus and games. 1989Network World 6 Feb. 85/5 The user [of the Pac Man virus] gets to watch as Pac Man eats the file on the screen.
b. Hence attrib. with allusion to the game; spec. in Comm., used to describe a situation in which the object of a takeover bid makes a counter-bid for the ‘predator’ or acquiring company.
1982D. A. De Mott in Wall St. Jrnl. 31 Aug. 3/1 A budding takeover defense plan that Wall Street arbitragers and investment bankers alike yesterday were calling ‘the Pac-Man strategy’. ‘That's where my client eats yours before yours eats mine,’ a merger specialist at one major investment banking firm said. 1982Times 1 Sept. 11/2 The Pac-man strategy was used by Cities Service to fight off a bid for the much smaller Mesa Petroleum. Cities bid for Mesa after Mesa had made an unfriendly offer for Cities. 1983Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Nov. 96/2 The Boeing 767, 757 and Airbus 300..have been dubbed Pac-Man planes because most of the pilot's instruments have been replaced with CRTs. 1984Business Week 2 July 77/1 Wyatt wants shareholder approval of the charges to assure that no target company can fight back with a ‘Pac-Man defense’. 1987Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 26 Dec. 16/2 The board saw the tactic as an ASCAP, an assured second-strike capability; someone else called it a Pac-Man defence, after the video gobblers. |