## No, despite what you may read online, his name is not actually Mr. Peepers. One of the things I aim to do with this site is refute persistent urban legends about video games. Stories like the one about Pac-Man being [inspired by a hockey puck](https://www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/pac-man-hockey-pucks-paku-paku) are oddly self-perpetuating. They get mentioned somewhere, someone adds it to some Wikipedia page, and then people using Wikipedia (and only Wikipedia) to research a given topic end up including the claim in their own writings. Later, when someone tries to verify the dubious claim, those same writings get cited as sources proving the claim, even though they only exist because of it. The cycle repeats, usually enabled by otherwise well-meaning people who have just heard the claim so many times they don’t question it. Fighting this kind of bad information online may seem like a sisyphean task, but I swear it’s worth the effort. I have to admit, however, that I accidentally played a role in the spread of a specific untrue “fact” regarding the laughing dog from Duck Hunt. Surely, you know of whom I speak.