History VideoGame / PacMan

Another notable sequel is ''Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures'', for the SegaGenesis and SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem. This game was an adventure game, except instead of controlling Pac-Man, you were an off-screen helper who suggested things to Pac (who had a mind of his own and was prone to moods which affected how he would respond), either by directing him to look in a general direction or by shooting things with a slingshot. You could also give him power pellets, of which you had only three but could find more around the levels. This game also included a full version of the original ''Pac-Man'', and either ''Ms. Pac-Man'' (SNES) or the exclusive ''Pac-Man Jr.'' (Genesis). ''Pac-Man 2'' was largely forgotten but still has a cult following.

* NonlinearSequel: There are three sequels to Pac-Man: the official Super Pac-Man, the unofficial bootleg turned canon Ms. Pac-Man, or the [[OddballInTheSeries 16-bit point and click action game]] Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures.

* ArtificialBrilliance: For the time, at least. Because the game doesn't have a random number generator, the ghosts' moves were deterministic, but they were each given different tendencies. In "Chase" mode, Red targets Pac-Man, Pink targets 4 spaces ahead of Pac-Man[[note]]-unless Pac-Man is moving up, then it looks four spaces up and four spaces to the left, due to a bug-[[/note]], Orange targets Pac-Man when far away and the lower-left corner when close, and Blue... wow. Draw a line from Red to two spaces in front of Pac-Man[[note]]-or if Pac-Man is moving up, then two up and two left[[/note]]. Now keep drawing this line past this space until it's twice as long. The end of the line is where Blue targets. Detailed [[http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html#Inky here]].

The game was originally released in Japan as "Puck-Man". It was changed for the North American release when marketing noticed how easy and tempting it would be to blot out a bit of the P to [[TrollingCreator undesirably retitle]] the game. Either version of the name is based on the Japanese sound "paku-paku", for eating.

** In ''Namco Classics Collection Volume 2'''s version of ''Pac-Man Arrangement'', the player is given a visual indication when Blinky goes "Cruise Elroy" (unless he is in his fused form). [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pacman_arr_cruiseelroy_547.jpg He raises his arms and gains angry eyes]].

* VideoGameRemake: ''Pac-Man Arrangement'' in ''Namco Classics Collection Volume 2'' featured two-player co-op play, new power-ups, new stage elements, such as dash arrows and jump panels, and introduced a fifth ghost that could give the other four ghosts [[SuperEmpowering special powers]]. This game, in turn, got remade again for ''Namco Museum Battle Collection''.

* AnimatedAdaptation: Creator/HannaBarbera produced one [[WesternAnimation/{{Pac-Man}} in the early 1980s]].
** And now there's [[WesternAnimation/{{Pac-ManAndTheGhostlyAdventures}} a second one]] on DisneyXD.

See also PacManFever. For the trilogy of platform games based on Pac-Man, see ''{{Pac-Man World}}''.

See also PacManFever. For the trilogy of platform games based on Pac-Man, see ''{{Pac-Man World}}''.

** In the first game, due to a bug, getting killed by a ghost under certain (very rare) circumstances (''right'' as their vulnerability time wears off) causes all four ghosts to turn bright orange.

** In the first game, due to a bug, getting killed by a ghost under certain (very rare) circumstances '('right'' as their vulnerability time wears off) causes all four ghosts to turn bright orange.

%% I actually saw the above happen once, having previously read about it in the first issue of British /Computer And Video Games/ magazine, but I can't remember the details; could someone add them?

* EndlessGame: As planned, but there's a KillScreen after 256 mazes. However, every maze pass 20 is exactly the same.

* EndlessGame: As planned, but there's an unintentional KillScreen after 256 screens. However, every level past 20 is exactly the same.

A sequel, ''[[TertiarySexualCharacteristics Ms.]] Pac-Man'', was even more popular than the original, and featured more complex mazes and randomized play. However, it wasn't actually an authorized sequel. It started life as a bootleg hack of the original ''Pac-Man'' called ''Crazy Otto'', which featured the player character as a Pac-Man head with legs. GCC, who created that hack, thought this game could be successful and brought the game to Creator/BallyMidway, Namco's American distributor. Midway was impressed and, together with the hackers, edited the sprites back into Pac-Man–style sprites and released it without the permission of Namco because Midway wanted a ''Pac-Man'' game out while Namco was readying ''Pac-Man'''s true sequel, ''Super Pac-Man''. This made ''Ms. Pac-Man'' the most popular bootleg video game ever.

There's also a special version of the game, ''Pac-Man VS.'' for the GameCube, designed by ShigeruMiyamoto and bundled with the GameBoyAdvance link cable (as well as several other Namco games, and it was even given away for free at stores!). One of the few multiplayer entries in the series, the game allows up to three players to take control of the ghosts on the TV screen, while a fourth player controls Pac-Man himself on a linked GameBoyAdvance, passing systems and controllers among one another between rounds. It also features [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] as an announcer, for some reason, and makes a great party game.

Pac-Man received a second AnimatedAdaptation called ''WesternAnimation/{{Pac-Man And The Ghostly Adventures}}''. It airs June 2013 on DisneyXD.

** Interestingly enough, one of the cutscenes shows Inky having his fur torn off by a nail, showing skin underneath, implying, yes, he's a ''monster''.
** Similarly, the big round dots that Pac-Man eats to turn the tables on the monsters/ghosts/ghost-monsters? "Energizers" in the arcade. The LP record "The Amazing Adventures of Pac-Man" expands on this by calling them "energizer dots". They are "Power Pills" in the Atari versions, "Power Pellets" in the cartoon, which is actually closer to their official Japanese name: "Power Esa" (lit. "Power Food"). Moreover, Super Pac-Man officially refers to them as "POWER" pellets.

* SuperEmpowering: In ''Pac-Man Arrangement'' from ''Namco Classics Collection Volume 2'', a fifth ghost named [[AccidentalInnuendo Kinky]] who could [[FusionDance fuse]] with one of the four other ghosts to give them special powers fitting their personalities: Blinky gains a [[UseYourHead dashing headbutt]], Pinky gains the ability to jump to and from any location in the maze, Inky gains a DoppelgangerAttack and Clyde gains the ability lay down Pac dots in empty portions of the maze (forcing you to revisit those sections). Initially, the ghost house will only spawn one Kinky, but later levels will have it spawn more copies, allowing multiple ghosts to get special powers.

** ''Jr. Pac-Man''. Double-width scrolling mazes, bonus items will mutate dots into larger dots that slow you down, long corridors...

The franchise continued through an endless array of sequels, including two {{Pinball}} machines (''Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Man'' and ''Pinball/BabyPacMan'') and lots of console adaptations. One of the most notable of these is ''Pac-Man Championship Edition'', released for the XboxLiveArcade and iPhone — notable because it is the only sequel to have been designed by Pac-Man's original creator, Tōru Iwatani. It is also a much faster, more intense game than the original ''Pac-Man'', and was heralded as being "actually a video game now" by several gaming sites.

* PinballSpinoff: Most notably ''Pinball/BabyPacMan'', which combined a Pac-Man video game with a pinball table.
** Prior to that, there was ''Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Man''. It was a more conventional {{Pinball}} game, with a five-by-five bank of lights in the playfield. During the game, the player could move Pac-Man (represented by a yellow light) by tapping flipper buttons for direction[=/=]movement to avoid the ghost (represented by a red light).

* NintendoHard: ''Jr. Pac-Man''. Double-width scrolling mazes, bonus items will mutate dots into larger dots that slow you down, long corridors...
** HarderThanHard: ''Pinball/BabyPacMan'', with more aggressive ghosts, laser-guided AI, and ''no power pellets'' to start off with... until you (hopefully) gain some in the pinball portion of the game.

** HarderThanHard: ''Pinball/BabyPacMan'', with more aggressive ghosts, laser-guided AI, and ''no power pellets.''

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