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The Death Star is a fictional mobile space station and galactic superweapon featured in the Star Wars space-opera franchise. The first version, which appears in the original 1977 film Star Wars , is stated to be more than 160 kilometers (99 mi) in diameter, and is crewed by an estimated 1.7 million military personnel and 400,000 droids . The second Death Star appears in Return of the Jedi , and is significantly larger at 200 kilometres (120 mi) in diameter and while unfinished, is technologically more advanced than its predecessor. Both Death Stars were built by the Galactic Empire to strengthen its control over the galaxy, and are armed with kyber crystal -powered superlasers, which can destroy entire planets. The first Death Star requires significant time to fully recharge its superlaser, and is destroyed by the Rebel Alliance taking advantage of its one weakness: an exhaust port which, when hit with a precise shot, triggers a chain reaction throughout the station's entire...

Pac-Man , stylized as PAC-MAN, is an  arcade game  developed by  Namco  and first released in  Japan  in May 1980. It was created by Japanese video game designer  Toru Iwatani . It was licensed for distribution in the United States by  Midway  and released in October 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, and an icon of 1980s  popular culture . Upon its release, the game—and, subsequently,  Pac-Man derivatives —became a social phenomenon that yielded high sales of merchandise and inspired a legacy in other media, such as the  Pac-Man animated television series  and the top-ten hit single  "Pac-Man Fever" . Pac-Man was popular in the 1980s and 1990s and is still played in the 2010s. When Pac-Man was released, the most popular arcade video games were  space shooters , in particular,  Space Invaders ...