Daily Pac-Man

This early fan recreation of Pac-Man was built in Java for the SmilieGames website in the year 2000. Pressing T on the keyboard toggles a turbo feature that drastically speeds up the gameplay.

NEWS: Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac has received an update granting players access to the newly in-game birthday outfit, released in celebration of the franchise's 46th anniversary.

At E3 2010, Bandai Namco played this video in celebration of Pac-Man's 30th Anniversary. The video goes over Pac-Man's history from the inception of the original game to the franchise's presence in the then-present day.

This upbeat commercial for Pac-Man World's release in Japan goes all-in on the 20th birthday aspect. It notably uses clips from Namco press events featuring people celebrating by dancing and moving their hands like Pac-Man's mouth.

Just Dance 2019 features a song based on the original Pac-Man game. The dancers wear costumes of Pac-Man himself, Blinky, Pinky, and Inky. The song can also be found and played through the Just Dance Now app and the Just Dance Unlimited subscription service.

NEWS: Namco Legendary Mountains has been officially announced for Switch, Switch 2, and PC. This is a 3D chain puzzle game by BeXide with a voxel-style presentation taking after classic Namco games. It will be releasing sometime during the summer.

"Thank goodness for new Pac-Man Pasta from Chef Boyardee!" This commercial tie-in to the Hanna-Barbera Pac-Man animated series featured spaghetti shaped like Pac-Man and co., and came in three different varieties (With/without meatballs, and chicken flavored).

Here is the scene in question. (Content warning: Language)

NEWS: The Fruit Ninja x Pac-Man collaboration event has commenced, offering players four special modes and in-game blades based on iconography from the original Pac-Man arcade game.

In 1982, a band named R. Cade and the Video Victims created an album of video game-themed songs under the title "Get Victimized." One of the songs is a seemingly spiritual follow-up to Pac-Man Fever, this time focusing on Ms. Pac-Man.

NEWS: Pac-Man is getting a brand-new animated series premiering on YouTube named Pac-Man: Snack Breaks! Developed by the folks at Cartuna, this monthly installment will see Pac-Man (voiced by Mike Cefalo) embark on "a-MAZE-ing" adventures and meet a cast of colorful characters along the way!

Released by Entex in 1981, PacMan2 is an LCD game billed as a direct sequel to Pac-Man 13 years before the international release of Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. The "2" in the title also references the game's co-op multiplayer; the device has two D-Pads for players to share the experience.

In 2016, Kemco released Mega Run Meets Pac-Man for iOS and Android devices. Appropriately, the game is a successor to their 2012 title, Mega Run - this time featuring Pac-Man as the default playable character. (Video capture by PacFan12)

To promote the movie, One Piece Stampede, 500,000 theatergoers were granted access to a webgame named One Piece Pac-Man Stampede Ver. The game was active from August 23rd 2019 to November 22nd 2019, and featured 5 levels of play with 8 bonus "fruits" to grab. (Video capture by Natsuki Ninomiya)

On October 13, 1981, PM Magazine Chicago aired a television report known as "Pac-Mania Invades Chicago" The coverage elaborated on the revolutionary success of Pac-Man as well as all the moving parts (gameplay and machine mechanisms alike) that make the game tick.

Under normal circumstances, it's impossible to see Pac-Man collide with Blinky onscreen during the first intermission of the original game. If you were to play a modified version of Pac-Man that speeds Pac up, though, you can see Pac-Man moves past Blinky and wraps around the screen when he's big.

An American TV advert for the 1998 Playstation title, Pitfall 3D: Beyond the Jungle, depicts Pac-Man as a crotchety old man while he watches gameplay in a barber shop with other envious classics. Ironically, Pac-Man World would release one year later. @playstationpark.bsky.social

There are many hidden gestures the player can activate by drawing them in Pac-Pix's sketchbook mode. However, one of these can only be performed in the Japanese version; if a line shaped like a butt is drawn successfully, an orange cloud will come out and make an explosion sound.

Puckman Pockimon Genie 2000 is a strange bootleg arcade game where two players control Pac-Man and Pikachu as they team up to (while competing for the higher score) eat all of the dots in the maze while avoiding enemies. Clearing mazes rewards players with...portraits of unnamed women.

In 1996, shareware developer ChamProgramming released Champ Pac-Em and Champ Ms. Pac-Em. These were unofficial, but faithful recreations of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man for DOS computers at the time; they also boasted a "Champ" mode that adds new features to the experience.

While Toru Iwatani has long been absent from Pac-Man productions for many years now, one unutilized concept lingers within his mind: having Pac-Man sing. Albeit rarely, there are multiple instances in interviews where he publicly proposes the idea of a Pac-Man music game.

(Content warning: Drugs) Pac's Jungle Trip is a fangame made by Wiesi in 2004. After his car breaks down, Pac-Man searches in a nearby jungle for a way to fix it. The arcade action is mixed with adventure elements that see Pac-Man fulfill quests for the bizarre cast of characters he comes across.

Eat Girl is an indie game created by tesselode in 2019; it combines the arcade-style dot-munching antics of Pac-Man with a surreal atmosphere that is "sometimes meditative and sometimes unsettling."

NEWS: Pac-Man joins the heroes of the Isle of Rhandum in the tower defense mobile game, Rush Royale, for a special limited-time event running from March 10th to March 24th. The Ghost Gang also serve as event-specific minibosses that will make attempts to impede on your run in this collab map.