Concept art for the Krome Keeper boss in the original Pac-Man World shows a much different battle than in the final game. Interestingly, the version of the fight seen in Pac-Man World: Re-Pac is more in line with the concept art rather than that in the initial final product.

Released in 1996, Pac-Eight is one of multiple Pac-Man medal games released during the year. It expands upon the establishments set by Pac-Slot through the addition of vertical rows to the gameplay.

In 1999, Namco re-released the Game Boy versions of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man for the Game Boy Color. Playing on the Game Boy Color, of course, gives the games an arcade-like color palette. They each come with a bonus game, those being Pac-Attack and - new to Game Boy - Super Pac-Man, respectively.

Legendary artist Don Bluth once served as a consultant for the artwork and environments of a 2004 project known as Pac-Man Adventures. While this particular game was scrapped, some of its elements and concepts (even characters such as Erwin) would be carried over to Pac-Man World 3.

According to Toru Iwatani, programmer Shigeo Funaki was against implementing intermissions into Pac-Man. He didn't like the idea of programming things unrelated to gameplay. Iwatani talked him into it, explaining they would impact sales and act as both a player's break and goal.

The Philips CD-i version of Pac-Panic was originally planned to have an introduction movie play before the game a la the console's version of Lemmings. It was unfortunately cut from the game due to time constraints. These drawings below are storyboards for the video, sketched by Johnny Wood.

Mount Pacsuvius, the mountain Pac-Man embarks upon in Pac-Man Snack Breaks, bears a rather striking resemblance to the prehistoric levels in Pac-Man Adventures in Time in that it features mazes leading up to the volcanic crater.

As a means of gaining an edge over bootleggers, Midway released their own conversion package for Pac-Man in 1982 known as Pac-Man Plus. Donning a green maze instead of the original's blue, the game changes "fruit" and Power Pellet behaviors to be more surprising and challenging to players.

In 2017, Rakuten partnered with Blackstorm Labs to form Rakuten Games and the HTML5 web platform RGames. One of the games it hosted was Pac-Run (unrelated to Let's Run! Pac-Man Run! by CoolGames), a 2D auto-runner inspired in part by Pac-Land. Unfortunately, the RGames portal closed in 2019.

With his students at the Tokyo Polytechnic University, Toru Iwatani developed a concept for gaming in the form of a wearable body suit - combining the player, display, and game as one unit. This 2015 video shows the suit playing a functional game of Pac-Man across its displays.

The scope of Pac-Man Ghost Zone was inspired in part by Super Mario 64; when the game was reworked into Pac-Man World, though, the inspiration also changed The developers proceeded to take notes from none other than Crash Bandicoot. Game designer Scott Rogers claims this decision "saved our bacon"

In 2005, Toru Iwatani released a book in Japan dubbed Pac-Man's Game Study Manual, with the subtitle of "Pac-Man's Method" It contains insights from Iwatani regarding his time at Namco as well as his approach to video game design. An English translation can be found in Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon.

While Pac-Man World 2 was a million-selling success in the West, the game drastically underperformed in Japan Following this, any succeeding Pac-Man game that was managed by Namco's USA division at the time, Namco Hometek, saw no Japanese release. Pac-Man Fever almost did, but it ceased to make it

Pac-Man for the Atari 5200 has an Easter Egg where pressing 0722626 (spelling "PACMAN" on the keypad) at the title allows players to see the name of developer James Andreasen Like other cases in the early 80s, this was done to combat Atari's policy at the time refusing to let their devs be credited

Legal issues surrounding Ms. Pac-Man can be traced back to Namco's Ms. Pac-Man / Galaga "Class of 1981" reunion cabinet released in 2000. The GCC alumni saw this as breaching their original agreements with Namco, so an arbitration was set between 2002-2007 that covered future releases of the game.

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Before Sue would host the arcade in Pac-Man World 2, she was originally planned to be a supplier for power-up smoothies. While remnants are subtly hidden in the final game, this resurfaced screenshot (courtesy of Crazy Otto via YouTube) of the E3 2001 demo visibly showcases her previous services.

対戦 Pac-Man / Battle Pac-Man is a game released by Bandai Namco in 2009 for mobile devices. It is very similar to Pac-Man Vs. in which one player plays as Pac-Man while another controls a ghost with a limited view of the maze. However, this game is only played with two people.

Before Sue would host the arcade in Pac-Man World 2, she was originally planned to be a supplier for power-up smoothies. While remnants are subtly hidden in the final game, this resurfaced screenshot (courtesy of Crazy Otto via YouTube) of the E3 2001 demo visibly showcases her previous services.

(Content warning: Spoilers) After Thebe, Aegina, and Swordsman No. 8 activate G.A.I.A.'s self-destruct sequence to deal the final blow to Gamp, they chant together "We are Galaxians. Mission: Destroy all enemies!" This is a callback to the Galaxian arcade game's attract screen.

Released in the Nintendo 3DS's launch window, Pac-Man and Galaga Dimensions features an exclusive game in the franchise known as Pac-Man Tilt. Pac-Man Tilt is a 2D platformer where the player tilts the system to manipulate Pac-Man's momentum while making their way to the goal.

The Pac-Man branding has lent itself to two arcade redemption games where the player tries to mechanically push a capsule into a hole where they can obtain the prize inside. These games are Pac-Cap and Capsule Factory, which came out in 1996 and 2003, respectively.

Have you ever imagined what Paul Neave's infamous Flash fan remake of Pac-Man would look like if it were a 404 page? Before the days of Google's T-Rex minigame, this modified version of the iconic game was made for the website of design agency Blue Fountain Media.

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Some Flash materials for official Pac-Man media contain artwork of the characters that have been drawn using the program's own tools. Because Flash uses vector graphics, this drawing of Pac-Man - for example - can be displayed in as high of a resolution as the user is able to zoom in.

Similarly to PC and console games, it was not uncommon to sample paid mobile games in the 2000s through their respective demo versions. This video below shows demos for Pac-Man Plus and Pac-Man in action. Players had 30 seconds in each game to rack up as many points as they can.

Alongside downloadable goodies for the game and your computer, the website for パックマンのデスクトップ大作戦 (Pac-Man's Desktop Operation) also featured an online demo of its "Pac-Athlon" minigame. This demo is the only official Pac-Man web browser game to run on Shockwave, the predecessor to Adobe Flash.

Pac-Man is one of 20 games featured in 2019's Palace Arcade handheld release, based on the infamous Netflix series, Stranger Things - specifically the Palace Arcade location seen in the show. And yes, the show's characters could play Pac-Man there.

In 2016's endless puzzler, 激ムズ！ パックマンムゲンタワー (Intense! Pac-Man Fantasy Tower), players use Tetromino-esque shapes to build terrain for Pac-Man to climb up as high as possible without crushing him.

Pac-Man World was originally intended to include a 3D version of the maze from the original Pac-Man; it was said to be huge compared to the existing mazes in the game While this was scrapped, a similar concept did materialize as an unlockable stage in Pac-Man: Adventures in Time

In 2009, Pac-Mania was brought to the Zeebo, an online-only console released in Brazil and Mexico with a games lineup consisting of mobile phone ports.