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Pac-Man World 2 features Pac-Man on an adventure to rescue Pac-Land from an ancient spirit known as Spooky.

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The game contributed heavily to the series as well as the character and spawned two sequels, a spin-off and a remake as well. Pac-Man World was released in 1999 on the PlayStation, and introduced new abilities to him (reminiscent of Mario's and Sonic the Hedgehog's abilities). Later arcade games include Pac-Land, Pac-Mania and Pac-Man Arrangement, a remake of the original Pac-Man. Despite Pac-Man 's legacy, Pac-Man himself did not appear again until the 1982 arcade release of Super Pac-Man, which introduced a change into Super Pac-Man (Pac-Man increased in size and invulnerability). Pac-Man first appeared in the original action game of the same name. Main article: List of Pac-Man video games His design went through two minor changes from the Puck-Man cabinet art over the years, the first made his nose smaller in the 1990s and the second altered his eyes and shoes in 2010.Īppearances In video games

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More recently Pac-Man appears as a full three-dimensional polygonal model. 1984's Pac-Land was the first game (of many) to use his arcade art in-game. In-game Pac-Man was represented as a two-dimensional sprite of a simple yellow circle with a mouth, which is his current design as of 2018. The North American Pac-Man artwork by Midway went a different way and depicted him as a yellow circle with legs and large red eyes. The arcade created an official art on the original Puck-Man designed by Namco artist Tadashi Yamashita, portraying him as a yellow circle with a large mouth as well as hands, feet, eyes and a long nose. The character's name was written in English as 'Puck-Man', but when Namco localized the game for the United States they changed it to 'Pac-Man', fearing that vandals would change the P in 'Puck' to an F. The character's name comes from paku-paku ( パクパク), an onomatopoeic Japanese word for gobbling something up. However, he said in a 1986 interview that the design of the character also came from simplifying and rounding out the Japanese character for a mouth, kuchi (口). According to the character's creator Toru Iwatani, the inspiration was pizza without a slice, which gave him a vision of 'an animated pizza, racing through a maze and eating things with its absent-slice mouth'.

series (specifically in the fourth and fifth installments) and in the Ridge Racer series. He also appears as a playable guest character in some other games, most notably in the Super Smash Bros. He is credited as the first video game mascot character and the first to receive merchandise. Pac-Man has the highest-brand awareness of any video game character in North America, becoming an icon in video games and pop culture. In Japan, he was titled 'Puckman' for his hockey puck-like shape, which was changed in international releases to prevent defacement of the arcade cabinets by changing the P into an F. The character was made to be cute and colorful to appeal to younger players, particularly women. The idea of Pac-Man was taken from both the image of a pizza with a slice removed and from rounding out the Japanese symbol 口 ( kuchi, lit. Pac-Man also has a voracious appetite, being able to consume vast amounts of food in a short timespan, and can eat his enemies by consuming large 'Power Pellets'. Pac-Man's most common antagonists are the Ghost Gang - Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde that are determined to defeat him to accomplish their goals, which change throughout the series. He is the official mascot of Bandai Namco Entertainment.

Created by Toru Iwatani, he first appeared in the arcade game Pac-Man (1980), and has since appeared in more than 30 licensed sequels and spin-offs for multiple platforms, and spawning mass amounts of merchandise in his image, including two television series and a hit single by Buckner & Garcia. Pac-Man is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of the video game franchise of the same name. Yuka Terasaki ( Ghostly Adventures cartoon, Japan) Unknown ( Pac-Man World, Mario Kart Arcade GP and sequel)ĭuncan MacLaren ( Pac-Man: Adventures in Time) ĭebi Derryberry ( Street Fighter X Tekken, Pac-Man Party) Įrin Mathews ( Ghostly Adventures cartoon) Įrica Mendez ( Ghostly Adventures games)

Pat McBride ( Kid Stuff Records records).

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