Daily Pac-Man

The very first issue of Atari Age magazine features an interview with Pac-Man himself to promote the release of the Atari 2600 version of the game.

Highlights of the feature include lots of punny wordplay and the bizarre claim he has "hardly met" Ms. Pac-Man.

Bandai Namco's booth at DigitalLife 2007 was notable in that it contained Ms. Pac-Man arcade machines with phones strapped to them.

This was to promote the mobile version of the game, amongst other classic games the company has ported to cell phones.

Authored by Deborah Palicia in 2002, Pac-Man Collectibles is an unofficial catalog that showcases photographs of all sorts of Pac-Man products and merchandise from over the years.

A second volume was planned, but never materialized.

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures once received a short-lived French comic book adaptation published by Delcourt Jeunesse Editions.

These comics feature unique stories that wouldn't be out of place from the TV episodes.

(Translation by idril-la-wiccan)

Pardon the dark character models in this capture!

At the time of the post's original tweet on Twitter, I couldn't find any decent footage of the levels in action online, so I settled with using a PSP emulator to record the footage you see here.

In early 2006, Namco Museum Battle Collection got a sequel exclusively in Japan named ナムコミュージアム Vol. 2 (Namco Museum Vol. 2)

It features a special version of 2005's Pac-Man Arrangement that gives half of the game's levels a Namco-themed makeover and new music to accommodate.

The earliest incarnation of an arcade officially bearing the Pac-Man branding is Bally's Pac-Man Palace.

This chain was operated by none other than Bally Midway, who were the American rights holders and distributors of Pac-Man games in the early-to-mid 1980s.

Months after release, 2016's Pac-Man Puzzle Tour received an overhaul in its visual design.

The game went from incorporating pixel-style graphics themed after the original Pac-Man to featuring more cartoon-y visuals.

The original PSP release of Pac-Man Arrangement (2005) featured co-op multiplayer, with Ms. Pac-Man as the second player's character.

This feature was removed from the game when it made its way to other platforms, making it a single-player only experience as a result.

Nintendo's work on Pac-Man Vs. inspired them to create the multiplayer mode in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

In this mode, one player plays as Link and the other controls three phantoms. Similarly to Pac-Man Vs., if Link gets caught by a phantom, the player roles swap.

Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac Series X & Xbox One

Does it play offline? Yes

Does it require a download? No

Both versions on disc. Series X version tested. Only a minor hiccup with the wrong music played during a boss fight. Very good release otherwise.

欢乐吃豆人 (Happy Pac-Man) was a 2019 Chinese smartphone game played through WeChat. It was similar to the Pac-Man mobile app with some twists including boss encounters and the ability to jump.

Alongside adventure and endless modes, there were also hidden levels and unlockable skins.

If you're in the USA hankering for the Gashapon figure tie-ins for Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac, you're in luck; they are now being distributed within the country

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Pac-Man can be used as a ball in Rockin’ Bowl-O-Rama, a bowling video game with a 1950's theme released by Namco for arcades in 2005.

In some versions of Pac-Mania, jumping ghosts can jump during the second go-around of stages (i.e. visiting Block Town after Jungly Steps) where they otherwise aren't supposed to.

Below, you can see the Master System and Amstrad CPC ports allow them to jump in Block Town.

Veteran video game developer Hirokazu Yasuhara is notable for having worked on titles across the Sonic, Mario, and Pac-Man franchises.

Particularly, he is credited as a senior game designer for Pac-Man Party.

Pac-Land and Pac-Man Championship Edition are amongst Toru Iwatani's favorite Pac-Man installments.

However, the same can't be said about Super Pac-Man; Iwatani has been quoted calling it "boring."

Hidden within the data of the original Pac-Man is an unused sprite depicting an explosion. It is unknown what it would have been used for.

The Character Slideshow in Namco Museum Volume One presents the graphic alongside the rest of the game's sprites, dubbing it "Blast".

In 2015, the online mobile card battling game, Outcast Odyssey, received a variety of cards featuring Pac-Man and the ghosts for a limited time.

The cards depicted each of the characters with artwork exclusive to the game.

WANTED Petite Blonde seeks willing playmates for fun and games this Valentine's Day. Applicants should be experienced, willing to indulge in demanding single or group action and possess well developed joystick control. Ms. PAC-MAN She's all mouth!

This Official Nintendo Magazine advertisement from 1997 introduces the SNES version of Ms. Pac-Man under the guise of a personal ad for the character.

"Why bring back these hits from the past? For the past few years, our distributors and we have received comments from operators all over the USA about how well their Ms. PacMan and Galaga games continue to perform, but how beat up the hardware had become. Burned in monitors, trashed cabinets, irreperable boards... Would it be possible for us to re-release the games that they needed? We started to research the project, and found that even though many of the components were a great deal more expensive today, due to our ability to lower the cost of some of them, we were able to offer the game at virtually the same price that it was sold at 20 years ago. We wanted to uphold the integrity of the original cabinet, so who better to partner with than the same group of guys who built the originals? The games are being assembled at Grand Products. Ms. PacMan and Galaga together — it doesn't get any better than this!"

According to Namco's arcade website (circa 2002), the Class of 1981 cabinet was developed to provide fresh hardware for operators that were still making money from the old Ms. Pac-Man and Galaga machines.

When Namco Museum Volume 2 was localized for international releases, Super Pac-Man replaced Cutie Q in the collection's lineup of games.

The room the game occupies, as a result, has seen quite the makeover! You can take a look at the differences yourself below.

In his series of the same name, Klonoa wears a hat donning an image of Pac-Man.

The hat was briefly considered to be dropped when Klonoa was redesigned for the 2008 Wii remake of the first game. Due to fan outcry, however, Klonoa's look remained unchanged for the final product.

In Comic Con Museum's presentation celebrating Pac-Man's induction for their Hall of Fame, Toru Iwatani spends time talking about how good The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is.

He even claims to have finished the game three times, not minding the idea of doing it a fourth time.

It is not often that footage of Pac-Man VR would have been televised for broadcast, but the folks at 90s British program GamesMaster provided a brief taste of the game in a dedicated TV spot you can view below.

The "Break Time' background used to have a cross on top of the church in the Japanese version of Pac-Land.

While the removal of the cross was initially made for Midway's version, this change has since carried over to subsequent releases and appearances of the game.

"I’m not sure if I should mention this or not. Well, um, the truth of the matter is, there were no rewards per se for the success of Pac-Man. I was just an employee. There was no change in my salary, no bonus, no official citation of any kind. So I didn’t buy anything for myself. And it’s really not my personal style to buy myself a present anyway." -Toru Iwatani (as seen in a 2007 interview with Helen Pfeffer of VH1 Game Break)

Contrary to what the monumental success of the original Pac-Man may suggest, creator Toru Iwatani was not given any kind of special benefits or rewards when the game took off.

These Namco character costumes were released as paid DLC for LittleBigPlanet 3 in 2017.

For $5,99 USD, players get to dress Sackboy and co. as Pac-Man, Dig Dug, the Prince of All Cosmos, Mappy, Don-chan, Wonder Momo, the Galaga ship, and a space alien from Galaxian.

As part of the celebration for Pac-Man's 30th Anniversary in 2010, Bandai Namco released a new version of Pac-Attack for iOS devices.

This is not a straight port of the game from older platforms. Rather, the presentation was greatly overhauled for the smartphone screen.

Players built their own garden in Pac-Man Social, a web game that was once featured on Facebook.

Games like Pac-Man and Pac-Man S were included as methods for leveling up the garden; ghosts would also occasionally lurk around for Pac-Man to chomp.