Pac-Man is a truly nuanced commentary on capitalism. The objective of eating all the dots is a reference to the excessive consumption the system demands and the fact that the game never ends signifies how hollow this endless consumption really is. Not only that but the central conflict between Pac-Man and the ghosts represents the working class in-fighting that the bourgeoisie will orchestrate to distract us from our true enemy. Toru Iwatani could write Das Kapital but Karl Marx could never create the true anti-capitalist masterpiece that is Pac-Man.