Pac-Man
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| February 23 2025 | Pac-Man TV series begins reruns on MeTV Toons |
| August 2024 | Announced that Pac-Man will be adapted in the video game anthology series 'Secret Level' on Amazon Prime Video, voiced by Emily Swallow in the episode 'PAC-Man: Circle'. |
| May 9 2024 | Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle was re-released as Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs for other consoles after the closure of Google Stadia. |
| 2023 | 7-Eleven launched a comprehensive Pac-Man themed marketing campaign, including branded coffee (Clyde's Coffee Blend), Slurpee flavors (Blinky's Cherry & Inky's Blueberry Raz), and a special Pinky's Strawberry White Chocolate Cappuccino. |
| February 4 2023 | Pac-Man Community was shut down on Facebook Gaming. |
| 2022 | Plans for a live-action Pac-Man film are revived at Wayfarer Studios, based on an idea by Chuck Williams. |
| 2022 | Pac-Man 256 was included in the Pac-Man Museum+ compilation and ported to Nintendo Switch for the first time. |
| November 16 2022 | Paid DLC was released for Pac-Man World Re-Pac, providing a special Pac-Man skin and unlocking a jukebox for listening to game music |
| November 16 2022 | An update was released adding the original development team's credits to the game, which received praise from original game designer Scott Rogers. On the same day, paid DLC was released featuring a special Pac-Man skin and a jukebox to listen to the game's music. |
| August 26 2022 | Pac-Man World Re-Pac, a remake developed by Now Production and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, was released on multiple platforms including Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. |
| June 2022 | A direct sequel, Pac-Man Battle Royale Chompionship, was released. |
| June 2022 | Pac-Man World Re-Pac was officially announced through a Nintendo Direct, developed by Now Production using the Unity engine. |
| June 20 2022 | A developer confirmed that Namco attempted to obtain the rights to the Pac-Man Fever song for use in the game, but was unsuccessful in securing the licensing. |
| May 27 2022 | Pac-Man Museum+ was released as a sequel to the original Pac-Man Museum compilation. |
| May 27 2022 | Super Pac-Man was included in Pac-Man Museum+ as an unlockable title for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. |
| January 6 2022 | Hamster released Super Pac-Man as part of their Arcade Archives series for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. |
| 2021 | Announced during Nintendo Direct that Hamster Corporation would release Pac-Man for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 as part of its Arcade Archives series. |
| 2021 | Screen Rant critically listed Pac-Man World Rally among the nine worst racing games of all time, highlighting its poor reception in the gaming community. |
| December 6 2021 | Pac-Man Community was released on Facebook Gaming, developed by Genvid and resembling the previously announced Pac-Man Live Studio. |
| October 28 2021 | Pac-Man Geo's servers were shut down, rendering the game unplayable. |
| 2020 | Namco partnered with Giants Enterprises to create a virtual Pac-Man challenge to keep people healthy during COVID-19 lockdowns, offering participant rewards. |
| 2020 | Bandai Namco launched 40th Anniversary celebrations for Pac-Man, spanning the entire year and extending into early 2021. |
| 2020 | A Pac-Man-themed downloadable content package was released for Minecraft to commemorate the game's 40th anniversary. |
| 2020 | Production on the Pac-Man World remake began, developed in conjunction with Pac-Man Museum+, driven by fan requests for a remake of the original game. |
| December 1 2020 | Bandai Namco store released limited supply Pac-Man themed mystery boxes. |
| November 2020 | San Diego Comic-Con announced the induction of Pac-Man into the Comic-Con Museum 'Video Game Character Hall of Fame'. |
| November 2020 | Czech Republic bank KB offered six limited edition Pac-Man themed payment cards. |
| November 2020 | Doppio Games launched Pac-Man Waka Waka, a voice-activated Pac-Man game for Amazon, where players guide Pac-Man through mazes using voice commands. |
| November 24 2020 | NewTxtDoc completes his gaming session, achieving an unofficial high score of 11,111,108 points, surpassing Stephen Kish's previous record. |
| November 23 2020 | Twitch streamer NewTxtDoc begins a 25-hour gaming session to unofficially beat the previous high score on World's Biggest Pac-Man. |
| November 23 2020 | Twitch streamer NewTxtDoc unofficially beats the previous high score by reaching 11,111,108 points during a 25-hour gaming session spanning from November 23 to 24. |
| November 17 2020 | Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle launched exclusively on Google Stadia, a battle royale game featuring Pac-Man competing against 63 other opponents in interconnected mazes. |
| November 10 2020 | Tekken 7 introduced a Pac-Man themed stage and DLC featuring Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Plus songs as part of their 40th-anniversary celebration. |
| October 28 2020 | Bandai Namco and Iam8bit released the 'Join the Pac' album, featuring an official anniversary theme song by Japanese techno musician Ken Ishii. The album contained two volumes: one with remixed Pac-Man sound effects by Japanese artists, and another compiling music and sound effects from various Pac-Man games. |
| October 27 2020 | A free demo of Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle was made available to players. |
| October 14 2020 | Bandai Namco released Pac-Man Geo, an augmented reality mobile game that creates Pac-Man mazes using real-world Google Maps, available in 170 different regions. |
| September 3 2020 | Bandai Namco released a special edition memorial blouson jacket replicating Ken Ishii's 'Join the Pac' music video jacket, featuring the phrase 'Coffee Breakers Since 1980'. |
| August 2020 | VIER, a German shoe brand, launched 'The Arcade Line' collection with Pac-Man maze-detailed shoes. |
| August 1 2020 | Hasbro and Bandai Namco released a Pac-Man themed Monopoly board game featuring a miniature playable arcade cabinet. |
| July 2020 | Numskull released limited edition miniature quarter-inch arcade cabinets of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, with only 10,000 units produced as 'Collector Editions'. |
| July 2020 | Multiple companies released miniature arcade machines for Pac-Man's 40th anniversary, including Micro Arcade, Super Impulse, and My Arcade, with variations like tabletop and cabinet formats. |
| July 2020 | Arcade1UP released a special edition arcade cabinet featuring multiple Pac-Man games including original Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus, Super Pac-Man, Pac & Pal, Pac-Land, Pac-Mania, and Galaga. |
| July 2020 | The game, along with its sequel and Pac-Man Museum, was delisted from retailers. |
| July 20 2020 | Gorillaz released 'Pac-Man' as the sixth single from their seventh studio album 'Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez', featuring American rapper Schoolboy Q. The song was part of the Song Machine project, a web series releasing tracks with different guest musicians throughout 2020. |
| July 4 2020 | In Japan, 5 metallic Junmai-shu flavoured Sake bottles representing Pac-Man and the ghosts were released to various liquor stores. |
| June 18 2020 | Namco Museum Archives (Namcot Collection) released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, featuring Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom games, including a homebrew version of Gaplus and an 8-bit demake of Pac-Man Championship Edition. |
| June 18 2020 | Guinness World Records reversed its previous decision and reinstated Billy Mitchell's 1999 Pac-Man perfect score performance. |
| May 2020 | NVidia revealed they created the entire Pac-Man game using AI as part of the 40th-anniversary celebrations. |
| April 24 2020 | Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 became free to download for PS4, Xbox One, and PC users, with the offer running until May 10, 2020. |
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