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''Pac-Man Party'' is a multiplayer video game released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoWii in 2010. The game serves as a celebration of the ''VideoGame/PacMan'' franchise's 30th anniversary. A port for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, ''Pac-Man Party 3D'', was released the following year.

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''Pac-Man Party'' is a multiplayer video game released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoWii Platform/{{Wii}} in 2010. The game serves as a celebration of the ''VideoGame/PacMan'' franchise's 30th anniversary. A port for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, Platform/Nintendo3DS, ''Pac-Man Party 3D'', was released the following year.
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* MythologyGag: This game's version of Power-Pellets are called Power Cookies. Fans may recognize this as a CallBack to when Power Pellets were called cookies in the original Japanese version of ''Puck Man''.
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* KrakenAndLeviathan: this game has two octopi bosses you'll fight in this game, their names are Captain Tentacle, and [[TropeNamer Kraken]].

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* BirthdayBeginning: Inverted-- the story ''ends'' with the revelation that it's Pac-Man's birthday.



* TheHerosBirthday: Inverted-- the story ''ends'' with the revelation that it's Pac-Man's birthday.

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%%* CuteKitten: Patra the Cat.



* GiantSpider: Arachne and Idmon, the bosses of Mirage Oasis and SpookyHallow respectively.

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* GiantSpider: Arachne and Idmon, the bosses of Mirage Oasis and SpookyHallow Spooky Hallow respectively.

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* TheHerosBirthday: Inverted-- the story ''ends'' with the revelation that it's Pac-Man's birthday.

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''Pac-Man Party'' is a MinigameGame for the Wii, reminiscent of ''VideoGame/MarioParty''. VideoGame/PacMan collects as many cookies as he can during this adventure. This is also the first game in which Pac-Man has a whole different look. It is also the first time the four iconic ghosts are given [[DivergentCharacterEvolution distinctive designs]] to differentiate them instead of being simple {{Palette Swap}}s of one another. The game's character designs were later made the basis for ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures''.

A 3DS version of this game came out a year later.

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''Pac-Man Party'' is a multiplayer video game released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoWii in 2010. The game serves as a celebration of the ''VideoGame/PacMan'' franchise’s 30th anniversary. A port for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, ''Pac-Man Party 3D'', was released the following year.

One day, Pac-Man receives a letter from the manager of the Pac-Cookie Factory, Mr. Cookie, informing him that a thief is planning to steal his recipe to his latest batch of Power Cookies, and that he’s entrusting the recipe to Pac-Man. Shortly after reading the letter, the Ghost Gang show up and steal the recipe. Pac-Man must follow the ghosts on a chase through various locations to get the recipe back, making some new friends along the way.

The game is a combination of a
MinigameGame for and a digital [[BoardGames board game]], similar to the Wii, reminiscent ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' series. Up to four players are tasked with collecting a prerequisite number of ''VideoGame/MarioParty''. VideoGame/PacMan collects as many cookies as he to win the game. Cookies can during this adventure. be slowly earned by moving along the board, and when a player loops back to the Cookie Factory at the start space, they earn greater Cookie rewards. When players land on empty spaces, they can take ownership of them by building castles on them. By landing on castles owned by their opponents, players can initiate minigame battles for a chance to steal the castles for themselves, but if the castle owner wins, they get to steal cookies from the player who initiated the battle. This is also gameplay loop continues until one player reaches the first prerequisite number of cookies and returns to the Cookie Factory.

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game in which Pac-Man has a whole different look. It is also marked the first time the four iconic ghosts are given [[DivergentCharacterEvolution distinctive designs]] to differentiate them instead debut appearance of being simple {{Palette Swap}}s of one another. The game's some updated character designs were for Pac-Man and the classic Ghost Gang. Modified versions of these new designs would later made serve as the basis for ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures''.

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their appearance in the ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'' reboot series. Additional characters make their debuts in this game came out a year later.game, though they would not go on to become recurring characters in most future ''Pac-Man'' games.

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* HumanCannonball: Doughnut Holes is a mini-game where the player characters are fired out of cannons into balls of doughnut dough. The goal is to score points by making holes in as many doughnuts as possible.

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** In Cannon Jump, the players jump into a series of cannons placed atop some castle walls. Each cannon will launch players to a different location, and the first player to find the way up to the top of the highest castle tower is the winner.
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Doughnut Holes is a mini-game where the player characters are fired out of cannons into balls of doughnut dough. The goal is to score points by making holes in as many doughnuts as possible.


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** In Bumpin' Trapeze, the goal is to be the last player standing by pushing the other players and the rubber balls they stand atop over the edge of the platform. As the minigame goes on, bombs rain from the sky that take away tiles of the platform, giving the players less room to move around.
** In Danger Dish, the players turn into balls and roll around atop a plate floating in a kitchen sink, and must bump into each other to push their opponents off the plate. Periodically, fruit items will appear that cause the player that eats them to grow much larger. If players of different sizes collide, the smaller player will be sent flying, leading to certain defeat.


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* ShootingGallery: The minigame simply titled Siege features players taking aim at a castle, where targets appear all throughout. Players shoot the targets to score points, but they're so far away that they are difficult to see normally, so each player's aiming reticle also serves as a magnifying glass that zooms in on wherever it is pointed. Players must locate as many targets as possible and shoot more than their rivals to win.


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* SphereFactor: The minigame Bumpin' Trapeze features each player standing atop a rubber ball on a raised platform in a circus tent. Players run around to roll their ball, and bump into the others to push them off the edge.

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* BattleInTheRain: Once Captain Tentacle appears on Greenwood Grove, he brings with him a massive rainstorm that floods entire sections of the map. The rain continues into his boss fight, where the players must use canoes in order to navigate the floodwaters.



* SodaCanShakeup: The minigame Bottle Rocket Blastoff has each character with a giant bottle of soda strapped to their back, and they are given ten seconds to shake it as much as they can. Once time runs out, the bottles are opened, and they use the bottles like jetpacks to launch themselves through the sky. The distance they fly is based on how much pressure they built up by shaking, and the player who flies the farthest wins.



* TwinkleInTheSky: At the end of the boss fight with Captain Tentacle, he attempts to fire his cannons at the players despite them being plugged with spears, which causes an explosion that sends him flying into the sky, with a twinkle once he's out of sight.

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** In Bottle Rocket Blastoff, the winning player disappears into the sky with a twinkle in their wake after they strike their victory pose.
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At the end of the boss fight with Captain Tentacle, he attempts to fire his cannons at the players despite them being plugged with spears, which causes an explosion that sends him flying into the sky, with a twinkle once he's out of sight.


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* WolverineClaws: Once Bearserk's boss battle begins, his already blade-like claws extend even further, and he flails them around to attack.
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* AllWebbedUp: In the boss fight with Idmon the giant spider, he has captured a flock of butterflies in his web and tied them down. Players run around the top of the web to free them in order to score points. Once they are all free, he will capture them again, and the cycle repeats until the butterflies deal enough damage to him.


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* DisneyVillainDeath: After Idmon is defeated during his boss fight, the web that the fight took place in collapses, and Idmon falls offscreen into the lava lake below. The players nearly follow him, but are rescued by the butterflies they saved during the fight.


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* SnowballFight: The boss fight with Kraken in the snowy Crystal Cliffs has the players attack him by throwing snowballs at him. With enough snowballs, his tentacles will be frozen solid before breaking off. Occasionally, he will counter by rolling a giant snowball toward the players that they can destroy with their own snowballs


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* TwinkleInTheSky: At the end of the boss fight with Captain Tentacle, he attempts to fire his cannons at the players despite them being plugged with spears, which causes an explosion that sends him flying into the sky, with a twinkle once he's out of sight.
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* BeTheBall: Certain minigames have each character change shape into a ball. Many of these minigames involve the now round characters rolling or bouncing around.
** Snowball Sumo has the ball-shaped characters rolling around in thick snow to grow into as big of a snowball as possible. The player who grows the largest one wins, but they can also try to eliminate their rivals from the competition completely by bumping them off the edge of the mountain summit.
** In Pac-Golf, the players are sent flying by a massive golf club toward the hole, and the winner is the first player to land in the hole. During the flight, the players can bump each other to try and push their rivals away. Once they land, if no one lands in the hole, they must roll themselves into it before anyone else does.


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* BigEater: Naturally, since this is a Pac-Man game, certain minigames give all players a chance to eat lots of food.
** Food Shuffle has all players seated around a rotating table with plates of food that appear throughout the minigame. Players must press the A button when the plates are in front of their character to score points, but there are also plates with bombs that explode on any characters that try to eat them. The player who eats the most is the winner.
** In Chocolate Chompers, characters compete to eat more chocolate balls than anyone else, each one being roughly the size of a character.
** In Candy Crash, the players stand in front of a giant plate covered in a pile of different sweet treats that are bigger than the characters themselves. Players take turns picking an item off the plate to eat it to score points.


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* CartoonBomb: Explosives shaped like black cannonballs with a fuse appear in certain minigames. They are usually hazardous and should be avoided.


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* RacingMinigame:
** Water Bike Wipeout places the players on waterbikes, and challenges them to race to be the first to reach the end of a course made from lines of buoys floating in the sea. Each racer has a limited amount of fuel, which is used up when the accelerator is held down, and while the waterbikes are steered automatically, if a racer goes too fast around a corner, they will fall right off the track and lose time.
** Pole Position has the players driving futuristic race cars down a halfpipe track with the goal of being the first to cross the finish line. There are cookies littered all over the track which racers can collect to gain speed boosts and overtake their rivals, but there are also electric barriers that slow down any racers that crash into them.


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* TheVoice: There are different events spaces like the mansion, the laboratory, and the fortune-teller that players can land on, but while the characters within talk to the characters, they are never seen.

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%%* * GoKartingWithBowser: The Pac-Man plays a variety of party games along with Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, the four ghosts who are playable.usually his enemies.


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* HerdingMission: In Chick Magnet, each player has to gather baby chicks that hatch from eggs and guide them over to their pen in order to score points. They must do this while avoiding a giant rooster that runs around the field and tries to squish the players.


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* NiceDayDeadlyNight: In Candy Bandits, the objective is to collect candy thrown from the windows of the surrounding buildings that bounces around. However, the time of day will periodically change to night, and when this happens, all of the candies will turn into nasty pumpkins that must be avoided, as any players that hit them will lose points.


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* RhythmGame: Pac-Man Hustle is a dancing game where players score points by moving the Wii Remote in different ways with the correct timing.
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* BerserkButton: You know that teddy bear in World 5? [[spoiler: He's the boss of the world, who becomes angry and is revealed to be a killer robot after you steal all of his candy.]]

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* BerserkButton: You know that teddy bear in World 5? [[spoiler: He's [[spoiler:He's the boss of the world, who becomes angry and is revealed to be a killer robot after you steal all of his candy.jellybeans.]]



* KillerTeddyBear: The giant teddy bear in Celebration Ave. doesn't initially seem dangerous, but once the players have eaten all of the jellybeans in front of it, [[spoiler: it reveals itself to be a violent robot called Bearzerk, who becomes the board's boss]].

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* KillerTeddyBear: The giant teddy bear in Celebration Ave. doesn't initially seem dangerous, but once the players have eaten all of the jellybeans in front of it, [[spoiler: it [[spoiler:it reveals itself to be a violent robot called Bearzerk, Bearserk, who becomes the board's boss]].



* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: The exact moment in which the teddy bear on Celebration Ave. becomes the rampaging machine Bearzerk is when his normal looking eyes are suddenly replaced with glowing, red, mechanical ones]].

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* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: The exact moment in which the teddy bear on Celebration Ave. becomes the rampaging machine Bearzerk Bearserk is when his normal looking eyes are suddenly replaced with glowing, red, mechanical ones]].



* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: Celebration Ave. features what initially appears to be an ordinary giant teddy bear as a board event. Once the players eat all of his jelly beans, however, he reveals himself to be a violent, rampaging robot called Bearzerk]].

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* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: Celebration Ave. features what initially appears to be an ordinary giant teddy bear as a board event. Once the players eat all of his jelly beans, jellybeans, however, he reveals himself to be a violent, rampaging robot called Bearzerk]].Bearserk]].



* UndergroundMonkey: All of the bosses except for Bearzerk, with Captain Tentacle and Kraken being two pirate octopi and Arachne and Idmon being two giant spiders.

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* UndergroundMonkey: All of the bosses except for Bearzerk, Bearserk, with Captain Tentacle and Kraken being two pirate octopi and Arachne and Idmon being two giant spiders.
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** One minigame is called Pooka Pop, and features an appearance from the Pooka enemy from ''VideoGame/DigDug''. Much like it's home game, the mini-game involves pumping Pooka with air like a balloon.

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** One minigame is called Pooka Pop, and features an appearance from the Pooka enemy from ''VideoGame/DigDug''. Much like it's its home game, the mini-game involves pumping Pooka with air like a balloon.



* LethalLavaLand: Spooky Hallow features multiple pits of lava around it's loop. Once the boss appears, lava will flood entire portions of the map.

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* LethalLavaLand: Spooky Hallow features multiple pits of lava around it's its loop. Once the boss appears, lava will flood entire portions of the map.



* TheUnfought: In ''Pac Man Party 3D'', Clyde is the only character who never appears as an opponent in Story mode.

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* TheUnfought: In ''Pac Man Party 3D'', the 3DS version, Clyde is the only character who never appears as an opponent in Story mode.
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* ConveyorBeltOfDoom: The minigame Crazy Conveyor takes place atop a conveyor belt leading directly into a trash compactor. The players have to jump over various kinds of junk in order to avoid falling into the compactor, all while the conveyor belt gradually gets faster.

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* ConveyorBeltOfDoom: ConveyorBeltODoom: The minigame Crazy Conveyor takes place atop a conveyor belt leading directly into a trash compactor. The players have to jump over various kinds of junk in order to avoid falling into the compactor, all while the conveyor belt gradually gets faster.
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There;s an "Alternate" ending played if you lose on the final board in story mode. Not that it matters since they all lead to the same ending.

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* MultipleEndings: Downplayed. Losing on the final board in Story Mode only adds a few lines of dialogue where Pac-Man thinks he lost the cookie recipe to the ghosts... until Mr. Cookie shows up regardless.

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* BigBoosHaunt: Spooky Hallow is a board located in the ghosts' home, and is a halloween-themed area taking place at night, decorated with haunted houses and pumpkins.



* LethalLavaLand: Spooky Hallow features multiple pits of lava around it's loop. Once the boss appears, lava will flood entire portions of the map.



* PowerUpFood: During minigames, players can use Power Cookies to increase their chances of winning. The benefits from using it can range from [[PowerUpLetdown minor]] (using it in Idmon's boss fight gives the user a small point bonus) to an "I win" button (using it in ''Spaghetti Roll-Up'' provides a considerable boost to how fast the user can gather spaghetti).

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* PowerUpFood: PowerUpFood:
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During minigames, players can use Power Cookies to increase their chances of winning. The benefits from using it can range from [[PowerUpLetdown minor]] (using it in Idmon's boss fight gives the user a small point bonus) to an "I win" button (using it in ''Spaghetti Roll-Up'' provides a considerable boost to how fast the user can gather spaghetti).spaghetti).
** Danger Dish has a mini-game specific example. Fruit pickups will appear on the dish that increase the size of whoever grabs it. Contact with an enlarged player is a very quick way to lose the mini-game.

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* CompressedAdaptation: The Mirage Oasis and Crystal Cliffs boards are not included in the [=3DS=] version of the game, limiting the number of boards from five to three.

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* CompressedAdaptation: The Mirage Oasis and Crystal Cliffs boards are not included in the [=3DS=] version of the game, limiting the number of boards from five to three. Since the Story mode only lasts for three boards, the story is abridged, as Patra and Woofa's introductory boards were removed, so they are instead respectively introduced in Spooky Hallow and Celebration Ave, with Woofa being introduced at the same time as Roger.



* MagicFeather:
** The cookie recipe in Story Mode. It was stolen from Mr. Cookie by Blinky and Clyde, and as Pac-Man, it's your job to get it back.
** [[spoiler: ItWasWithYouAllAlong: The recipe is blank, though.]]
---> [[spoiler: MR. COOKIE: "The greatest-tasting cookies..."]]\\
[[spoiler: INKY: "Are the ones you earn for yourself..." ]]\\
[[spoiler: PINKY: "And share with friends!"]]

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* MagicFeather:
** The cookie recipe in
MacGuffin: In Story Mode. It was stolen from Mode, Mr. Cookie tasks Pac-Man with protecting his prized cookie recipe, but it gets stolen by Blinky and Clyde, and as Pac-Man, it's your job Blinky. It's up to Pac-Man to get it back.
** * MagicFeather: [[spoiler: ItWasWithYouAllAlong: The At the end of story mode, after the cookie recipe is revealed to be blank, though.Mr. Cookie explains that there was never a secret to making the world's best-tasting cookies]].
--> '''Mr. Cookie:''' [[spoiler: The greatest-tasting cookies...
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---> --> '''Inky:''' [[spoiler: MR. COOKIE: "The greatest-tasting cookies..."]]\\
[[spoiler: INKY: "Are
Are the ones you earn for yourself..." ]]\\
yourself... ]]
--> '''Pinky:'''
[[spoiler: PINKY: "And And share with friends!"]]friends!]]


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* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler: At the end of Story mode, it is revealed that the cookie recipe that Blinky stole was blank, and that Mr. Cookie had Blinky steal the recipe to test Pac-Man's courage and determination]].


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* TheUnfought: In ''Pac Man Party 3D'', Clyde is the only character who never appears as an opponent in Story mode.

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