Pac-Man World
| Pac-Man World | |
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European cover of Pac-Man World.
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| Developer(s) |
Namco (PS1) Full Fat (Game Boy Advance) |
| Publisher(s) |
Namco SCEE (EU, PS1) Zoo Digital Publishing (EU, GBA) |
| Distributor(s) | Destination Software/Hip Games/Namco SCEE (EU, PS1) |
| Producer(s) | Brian Schorr |
| Designer(s) |
Hardy LeBel Scott Rogers |
| Composer(s) | Tommy Tallarico |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation Game Boy Advance |
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PlayStation
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| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Pac-Man World (officially called Pac-Man World 20th Anniversary) (パックマンワールド 20th アニバーサリー? Pakkuman Wārudo 20th Anibāsarī) is a 1999 3D-based free roaming platform game for the PlayStation. As the name indicates, the game was released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Pac-Man character. A Game Boy Advance version would be released in 2004, with many features removed. The original PlayStation version was released on the PlayStation Store in Japan on June 26, 2013 and in North America on February 11, 2014.
Pac-Man arrives home on his 20th birthday (the game was released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the original Pac-Man in arcades) only to discover that his friends and family—Ms. Pac-Man, Baby Pac, Jr. Pac, Professor Pac, Chomp Chomp the dog, and Pooka have been kidnapped by the evil Toc-Man (the name of Namco's defunct console game division backwards), a giant robot Pac-Man impersonator that was created by Orson, who is bent on stealing Pac-Man's identity. Pac-Man sets off to Ghost Island and works to free them while battling various ghosts and monsters.
The original storyboards of this game included other Namco IP such as Dig Dug, Mappy, and Valkyrie and Sandra. The idea was changed at the last minute (to the point of modeling and animation) to the other Pac-Man game family members such as Ms. Pac-Man, Baby Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, Pac-Man's dog (Chomp Chomp) and Professor Pac-Man. The only non-Pac-Man Namco character that made it into the story was Pooka, and holdovers from the original vision were Ms. Pac-Man and Professor Pac-Man.
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