Professor Pac-Man is a quiz arcade video game that was produced by Bally Midway and released in August 1983.

", while others require the player to fill in the blank lower-right square of a 16-square grid, with four different fruits (or Pac-Men facing different directions) in each row.

"), fruits would appear on the plates and Pac-Man would move from right to left as he ate them, if they were answered correctly, and for the questions which first require the player to study the light-up keys on giant telephones of various colors ("Which number was dialed?

The original idea for Professor Pac-Man came from world champion foosball player Johnny Lott and Ed Adlum, the publisher of RePlay.

Their proposal involved traditional Pac-Man maze gameplay, with the player being prompted with a quiz question when eating a power-up.

[3] The game was written by Rick Frankel, with graphics by Mark Steven Pierce and Sue Forner, and sound and music by Marc Canter.