Trivia / Pac-Man World 2

• Bad Export for You: The version of Pac-Attack that can be unlocked in the arcade is a stripped-down version of the remake featured in the Japanese-only Namco Anthology 2, only containing the standard single player and versus modes while lacking the puzzle mode and its corresponding level editor.
• Follow the Leader: The time trial idea is pretty blatantly lifted straight from the Crash Bandicoot series (specifically, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped). It follows all the same rules — items that freeze the timer, checkpoints disappear, a reward for beating a pre-set time, and no lives lost if you die. They even copied the idea of having a timer item spawn at the beginning of the level on every revisit.
• No Export for You:
  • The GameCube and Xbox versions were not released in Japan.
  • Following the game's lack of success in Japan, other succeeding games Namco Hometek managed did not release over there.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Evidence shows that the game was planned to be much more open and expansive, with screenshots of unknown NPCs like a giant purple ape-like creature proving this theory.
  • Originally Pac-Man was going to have combat abilities as evidenced by some unused punch animations found in the game's code that can be put back in via hacking. This idea would be revisited in the sequel, although the kickflip seems to be a leftover remnant of this idea.
  • Early Concept Art shows that the bosses were not ghost-themed; the Concept Art shows bosses like a Snow Yeti an Electric Eel, and a Rock Lava Monster. Also, the actual ghost-themed bosses were more based on animals with other mechanical weaponry. The only animal-based boss in the final was the first boss with Clyde's as the others three are just mechanical ghosts plus a warship.
  • There was a chiptune-esque remix of the game's motif Dummied Out of the final game.
  • The underwater submarine levels were planned to have the sub turn into a mech robot instead of the endless runner-styled swimming levels.

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