WHAT do Steven Spielberg, JK Rowling, Paul McCartney and Allan Alcorn have in common?

Pac-Man debuted in Japan on the 22nd of May 1980. In the game, you guided a little yellow thing around an arcade board, gobbling up pills and avoiding ghosts - unless you picked up some fruit then it was time to go on the hunt!

Gaming fans around Ireland are celebrating following the reveal of An Post’s new range of stamps.

Poor Pac-Man, he never seems to catch a break and here he is staring down the barrel of losing another life in this classic Irish street art.