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In 2017, Rakuten partnered with Blackstorm Labs to form Rakuten Games and the HTML5 web platform RGames. One of the games it hosted was Pac-Run (unrelated to Let's Run! Pac-Man Run! by CoolGames), a 2D auto-runner inspired in part by Pac-Land. Unfortunately, the RGames portal closed in 2019.

With his students at the Tokyo Polytechnic University, Toru Iwatani developed a concept for gaming in the form of a wearable body suit - combining the player, display, and game as one unit. This 2015 video shows the suit playing a functional game of Pac-Man across its displays.

The scope of Pac-Man Ghost Zone was inspired in part by Super Mario 64; when the game was reworked into Pac-Man World, though, the inspiration also changed The developers proceeded to take notes from none other than Crash Bandicoot. Game designer Scott Rogers claims this decision "saved our bacon"

In 2005, Toru Iwatani released a book in Japan dubbed Pac-Man's Game Study Manual, with the subtitle of "Pac-Man's Method" It contains insights from Iwatani regarding his time at Namco as well as his approach to video game design. An English translation can be found in Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon.

While Pac-Man World 2 was a million-selling success in the West, the game drastically underperformed in Japan Following this, any succeeding Pac-Man game that was managed by Namco's USA division at the time, Namco Hometek, saw no Japanese release. Pac-Man Fever almost did, but it ceased to make it

Pac-Man for the Atari 5200 has an Easter Egg where pressing 0722626 (spelling "PACMAN" on the keypad) at the title allows players to see the name of developer James Andreasen Like other cases in the early 80s, this was done to combat Atari's policy at the time refusing to let their devs be credited

Legal issues surrounding Ms. Pac-Man can be traced back to Namco's Ms. Pac-Man / Galaga "Class of 1981" reunion cabinet released in 2000. The GCC alumni saw this as breaching their original agreements with Namco, so an arbitration was set between 2002-2007 that covered future releases of the game.

I regret to inform that a shocking revelation has revealed this is unfortunately not a real screenshot, and I deeply apologize for the unintended deception. I will be taking extra precaution to verify the authenticity of contents related to Pac-Man World 2 from this point forward.

対戦 Pac-Man / Battle Pac-Man is a game released by Bandai Namco in 2009 for mobile devices. It is very similar to Pac-Man Vs. in which one player plays as Pac-Man while another controls a ghost with a limited view of the maze. However, this game is only played with two people.

Before Sue would host the arcade in Pac-Man World 2, she was originally planned to be a supplier for power-up smoothies. While remnants are subtly hidden in the final game, this resurfaced screenshot (courtesy of Crazy Otto via YouTube) of the E3 2001 demo visibly showcases her previous services.

Somehow I forgot to mention the game's title for this one! This is about Shadow Labyrinth.

(Content warning: Spoilers) After Thebe, Aegina, and Swordsman No. 8 activate G.A.I.A.'s self-destruct sequence to deal the final blow to Gamp, they chant together "We are Galaxians. Mission: Destroy all enemies!" This is a callback to the Galaxian arcade game's attract screen.

Released in the Nintendo 3DS's launch window, Pac-Man and Galaga Dimensions features an exclusive game in the franchise known as Pac-Man Tilt. Pac-Man Tilt is a 2D platformer where the player tilts the system to manipulate Pac-Man's momentum while making their way to the goal.

The Pac-Man branding has lent itself to two arcade redemption games where the player tries to mechanically push a capsule into a hole where they can obtain the prize inside. These games are Pac-Cap and Capsule Factory, which came out in 1996 and 2003, respectively.

Have you ever imagined what Paul Neave's infamous Flash fan remake of Pac-Man would look like if it were a 404 page? Before the days of Google's T-Rex minigame, this modified version of the iconic game was made for the website of design agency Blue Fountain Media.

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You won't quite be able to see it in these screenshots, but the drawing itself is smooth and unpixelated. And it stays that way no matter how old or new the computer displaying it is, or how big the image is on the screen. At least you can see its quality doesn't drop as you zoom in!

Some Flash materials for official Pac-Man media contain artwork of the characters that have been drawn using the program's own tools. Because Flash uses vector graphics, this drawing of Pac-Man - for example - can be displayed in as high of a resolution as the user is able to zoom in.

Similarly to PC and console games, it was not uncommon to sample paid mobile games in the 2000s through their respective demo versions. This video below shows demos for Pac-Man Plus and Pac-Man in action. Players had 30 seconds in each game to rack up as many points as they can.

Alongside downloadable goodies for the game and your computer, the website for パックマンのデスクトップ大作戦 (Pac-Man's Desktop Operation) also featured an online demo of its "Pac-Athlon" minigame. This demo is the only official Pac-Man web browser game to run on Shockwave, the predecessor to Adobe Flash.