Before the game would be known as Pac-Man World 3, it was initially revealed in 2004 through Nintendo's website as "Pac-Man World's End." Below is an unused splash screen that remained in the data of the PC version, showing the early working title in logo form.

One night in the United Kingdom in 2014, as Pac-Man had been rebranded under the Ghostly Adventures body of work, Bandai Namco's in-house team projected this cheeky 80-foot image on SEGA's headquarters. @SEGA_Europe playfully responded "Sonic still on-top though!"

Although unofficial, Paul Neave's remake of Pac-Man is nevertheless a very important piece of Internet gaming history. This game was so popular that if you were to go on just about *any* Flash game website throughout the 2000s, you'd find this version of Pac-Man ready to play!

The 2010 Xbox 360 Kinect title, Body and Brain Connection, features a minigame themed after Pac-Man Championship Edition. In this minigame, you avoid ghosts for as long as possible by moving your hands. There is also a mode where the left hand has to hover over moving fruit.

In 2013, the folks at the Namco Funscape location in Norwich shot a promotional video where a costumed Pac-Man tours the facility and partakes in its activities.

In 2017, The Domino King uploaded a video on his YouTube channel showcasing this amazing fan homage to Pac-Man. This elaborate chain reaction was crafted with a whopping 22,949 dominoes!

Today's Daily Pac-Man feature is an interview with none other than Martin T. Sherman! Some know him as Thomas the Tank Engine. but around these circles you know him as Pac-Man. He voiced the character in Pac-Man World 3 and Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac! Follow along for the thread!🧵

In 2010, Mall of America and Namco Cybertainment hosted a party event for Pac-Man's 30th Anniversary. A large floor space was dedicated to photo ops, arcade machines, facepainting, and contests/giveaways. In front of the stage is a ton of yellow cupcakes forming a Pac-Man shape.

Flashman made it onto the Internet scene in 2002, as part of Miniclip's catalog of online Flash games. While this Pac-Man clone bears a lot of similarities to Francesco Pastore's Flash Pacman, Flashman demonstrates major improvements in both its presentation and gameplay.

Built by Francesco Pastore in 2000, Flash Pacman is one of the earliest known fan recreations of Pac-Man in Flash. Similarly to Paul Neave's Pac-Man after it, the game proved to be very popular and had since been cloned, copied, and made available across many parts of the Internet.

On February 12, 2021, the official Microsoft Edge Dev Twitter account promoted games like Pac-Man that were available through the Edge Extensions store. These were illegal extensions each containing an emulator with a ROM for the advertised game. The tweet has since been deleted.

NEWS: As reported by Arcade Heroes, new Pac-Man arcade installments are being shown off at GTI China Expo 2025. The next Pac-Man Street Range series entry is the (rather straightforwardly titled) Pac-Man Whack-a-Mole. Also debuting is a Pac-Man kiddie ride with a video screen.

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2 features a boss fight where Pac-Man grows to a massive size to take on a huge mech. This fight pays homage to kaiju, a film genre about giant monsters. Pac-Man's formation in this fight is even named "Paczilla", a play off of "Godzilla".

When you think of how the ghosts are ordered, you may think "Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde," right? Bandai Namco actually tend to align the ghosts differently for games, merchandise, and other appearances. This arrangement goes by "Blinky, Inky, Clyde, and Pinky"

In the Japanese version of Pac-Man World 2, the "Canyon Chaos" level is renamed to "Hop! Step! Jump!" This is a reference to a piece of classic artwork from back when the original Pac-Man arcade game was known as Puck Man. (Thanks to @Crazy_Otto_ via Twitter for providing today's fact!)

Since Pac-Man's sprites were deliberately designed without detail or facial features added to them, creator Toru Iwatani was not initially a fan of Tadashi Yamashita's limbed take on the character. Because there was not much time to propose alternatives, however, the design stuck.

The Join the Pac album takes place in a dystopian future circa year 2080, 100 years after the release of the original Pac-Man game. Said future is - among other things - described to be the result of "a series of ecological disasters and pandemics starting in 2020 AD."

Years before Pac-Attack, Pac-Man and friends starred in a tile-shifting puzzle game known as Puzzle Club. In this game, players shift tiles around to align groupings of the same sprite horizontally. Although nearly complete, this 1990 title never officially released.

NEWS: Everybody's Golf: Hot Shots is now available in all territories for Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5, and PC. If you pre-ordered the game, you can unlock Pac-Man as a playable character early by completing the beginner tutorials.

In this unnamed promotional webgame featured on the website for the Pac-Man Fever video game, Pac-Man must keep the ghosts from burning down all the trees on the island while collecting fruit they drop Failure to do so will make the entire island sink to the bottom of the ocean

NEWS: Everybody's Golf: Hot Shots is now available on consoles in regions such as Japan. It'll debut on PC worldwide later today, and the international console launch will follow tomorrow Pac-Man makes a returning guest appearance in this new installment of the prolific series.

If you are at the Osaka, Kyoto, or Hiroshima train stations in Japan, there's a chance you may get to play this special game of Pac-Man with up to 13 other people on the spherical LED sphere known as "Linq Vision."

IIRC, that was produced by Jeff Buccellato & developed at Pronto Games. I executive produced it, and *think* Game That Tone was my idea, or at least the name certainly was. The art was by Sean Worsham, who had a knack for making the ghosts look personable.

Along with once being available for mobile devices in the 2000s, Pac-Man's Arcade Corner had a website where people could browse and preview ringtones. There was even a Flash version of Game That Tone, a minigame where players listen to a ringtone then choose what it's called.

In Pac-Man World (which was primarily made by a Western team), the Classic mode uses artwork based on the Puckman cabinet as a border for the original Pac-Man game. In Pac-Man World: Re-Pac (which was primarily by a Japanese team), the Classic mode uses Bally Midway's artwork.

Welcome back to Pac-itorial, a series of threads where I review Pac-Man games! Today, we will be talking about the greatly unexpected new entry in the franchise, Shadow Labyrinth. Follow along for the Pac-itorial! 🧵

NEWS: Pac-Man Baller Jr. is reported by Arcade Heroes to be shipping soon to arcades and operators. As the name indicates, this is a more condensed take on the Pac-Man Baller machines that released back in 2022, appearing rather similar to SEGA's Sonic Sports Kids Basketball.

Cheese Touch Chase is a Pac-Man clone that was built in Flash to promote the 2010 film adaptation of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. In place of the ghosts are sentient pieces of moldy cheese, which Greg can fight back against with the temporary invincibility he gains from cheese graters.

Ozzy's Maze is a small Shockwave-powered Pac-Man clone that was available to play on Ozzy Osbourne's website in the 2000s. The player collects bats and doves (which stun for a short time) while avoiding "Evil Ozzys." Snippets of Crazy Train are used in the opening screens.

In 2003, Jerry Buckner (of Buckner & Garcia) interviewed Deborah Palicia about her then-recent book, Pac-Man Collectibles. The five-and-a-half minute interview goes into her fascination with Pac-Man, as well as the types of memorabilia she's encountered.

something i made has been officially acknowledged by pac-man and of course it just HAD to be the slide gif

NEWS: Shadow Labyrinth has received a patch update, putting it to version 1.0.4. The patch sees various fixes and adjustments made to the game, which you can read about here:

While most games in Pac-Man Museum+ are emulations, some of the newer titles received brand new conversions to natively run in the Unity engine. These include: -Pac-Man Arrangement (2005) -Pac'n Roll Remix -Pac-Motos -Pac-Man Battle Royale

In 2003, Namco released the Pac-Man Ball coin pusher for arcades. This machine plays music and has a colorful video display in the middle where the coinage is depicted as a game akin to titles like Bust-A-Move.

During an interview with Game Informer, Toru Iwatani was asked what kind of game he would have thought to make if he had hot dogs for lunch instead of a pizza. Below is his response to the question:

Developed by Beck Interactive for Namco, the website for Pac-Man World 2 was filled with colorful visuals and interactive elements. Viewers could click on characters for info, download promo art, and play around with a postcard maker and a minigame known as Tree Top Token Game.

Professor Pac-Man was originally intended to be released in three different versions. They were planned for traditional arcades, bars, and casinos. Of the three, the only version to have been released in any capacity was the one for traditional arcades.

The filesize of the original Pac-Man was only somewhere around 24 kilobytes. This day and age, of course, that size is nothing compared to how much storage video games today take up. In fact, this screenshot of Pac-Man is about 42 kilobytes larger than the actual game!

Since the Pac-Man DLC track for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds utilizes Pac-Village as seen in Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac, we can observe in the reveal what games are in Sue's Arcade. Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, and Pac-Attack will return. However, Ms. Pac-Man is gone and Pac-Attack is the SNES version.

Upcoming Daily Pac threads: >I am NEARLY done with Shadow Labyrinth at long last, so I should have a review written before Re-Pac 2 comes out. >I'm hoping to finally do interviews again, and I do have a figure or few in mind. >Alongside the end-of-year recap, I plan to also do a 2020-2025 recap.

Shadow Labyrinth's protagonists, PUCK and the Swordsman, were created by Klonoa character designer Yoshihiko Arai. Initially, the worldbuilding involved yellow robots and yellow-headed characters before the focus shifted to authenticating Namco's essence through sci-fi concepts.

The car Pac-Man drives in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is the same one he used all the way back in Ridge Racer V for the Playstation 2.

NEWS: Pac-Man and Sonic the Hedgehog are crossing over with DLC for each other's upcoming games! Players'll get to race through Pac-Land as Pac-Man and the ghosts in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, and/or traverse Sonic stages starting with Green Hill Zone in Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac

Pac-Man Community was initially announced in 2020 as Pac-Man Live Studio for the franchise's 40th anniversary; it was intended to be played on Twitch. Despite being planned for June 2020, it wouldn't be until December 2021 that it ended up launching as a Facebook game - and shutting down in 2023.

This September 6th, Pac-Man will be joining other Japanese mascot characters (including Sonic and Bub) in a dedicated sumo wrestling tournament hosted by Duolingo. The event is set to take place in Tokyo, and you can learn more about how to attend here: lu.ma/9pwogdb4

During his recent livestream, Pac-Man World 2 composer David Logan shared a batch of unused tracks that were rejected by Namco during the game's creation.

Pac 'n Roll follows the story of a young Pac-Man spending time at the home of Pac-Master for training to fight ghosts. While there, he meets with Pac-Master's daughter, Pac-Girl. Japanese promotional materials confirm that this character is Ms. Pac-Man as a young girl.

Prior to Shadow Labyrinth, Aegina appeared in しんぐんデストロ～イ (Shingun~Destroy! Girl's Tank Battalion), a mobile game that was only active in Japan from September 10, 2014 to March 7, 2016. This game was also the previous new addition to United Galaxy Space Force (UGSF) lore.

Several unused sprites for bonus items exist in the files for Jr. Pac-Man. They include a skateboard, cowboy hat, rattle, baby bottle, pogo stick, and pacifier. It is worth noting Jr. Pac-Man started development as "Pac-Baby" (not to be confused with the 1982 game, Baby Pac-Man)

Board game designer James Wilson shared a behind-the-scenes post on the making of Ultimate Pac-Man, showing off a variety of prototypes that were built before settling on the final form. One of them had Ms. Pac-Man as a playable character before multi-colored Pacs were utilized.