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Pac-Man’s Magnetic Maze.

The latest article takes a look at another Pac-Man spinoff, put out by Tomy in 1982. It's Pac-Man's Magnetic Maze, which lets you control a Pac-Man magnet on his quest to avoid ghost magnets while collecting fruit magnets. Whole lotta magnets going on with this one. It didn't have the same longterm appeal as his Milton Bradley board game, but as you'll see, the Magnetic Maze certainly looked like a winner.

Posted by Matt on 05/25/2003. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 38 comments

Bonus points for the Pac-Man hunting demonic cat :mrgreen:

Chestnuts roasted by Rogue-13 @ 05/26/2003 6:04 PM

BTW, the legged Pac-man is actually a yellow sentient testicle

Chestnuts roasted by Rogue-13 @ 05/26/2003 6:06 PM

Pac Man has big red boots, so what is he stepping into that he needs those boots for?

Chestnuts roasted by ,gjccgj,,cg @ 05/26/2003 9:32 PM

Pac-Man based on a legendary Japanese spirit? Nahh. Not to say that Japanese mythos doesn’t worm its way into games(Tanooki, Keaton, Ninetales… Anyone?), but Pac-Man is based off of pizza. I’m not kidding. The creator saw a pizza with a slice taken out of it and BAM, inspiration.

Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 05/27/2003 2:14 PM

According to a book I have, Pac-Man is actually a cheesecake that didn’t want to be eaten like his friend was. Which puts a Pac-Fan and cheesecake addict like me into a quandry.

I still have my Pac-Man Tomy Pocket Game and all four Pac-Man wind-up toys. (Featured Inky, Blinky, Pac-Man, and Ms. Pac-Man, although I lost the stickers they used for her eyes.) I don’t have my Pac-Man underoos because they stopped fitting years ago, although I did wear the shirt like a regular T-shirt.

I also have (see if you remember this) "The Pac-Man Picture Album". Remember picture albums? Supposedly the regular vinal full-sized 33′s album with pictures printed on the record. (I also had one for "The Fox & The Hound".)

Chestnuts roasted by ShadowWing the Technorganic Autobot @ 05/28/2003 10:29 PM

I have a Strawberry Shortcake picture album. It’s been scratched beyond repair for 10 years, but it looks good on the wall.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/29/2003 7:52 PM

i just looooooooooooooove killing threads! Watch out for me! I’m a murderer!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 06/02/2003 7:05 PM

That pic of Pac Man at the top of this entry, it’s from an old video game called Pac-Land. I’ve got it for the TurboGrafx 16. It was this crazy side-scolling Pac Mac adventure. He had arms and legs.

Chestnuts roasted by UniAce @ 06/06/2003 1:26 AM

Pac-Man has to do with mythology, yes, but not like ancient Shinto mythology. There’s apparently a nursery rhyme about a creature that comes to gobble up the monsters that bump in the night, making a puck-puck sound as he comes. Hence, "Puckman," which was renamed "Pac-Man" when they figured out how easy it would be for vandals to change the P into an F.

The thing about the pizza is true, though: he was going to be a pizza, but they didn’t have the graphical capability to give him pepperoni, so it was reduced to a chomping yellow circle. The best part, though, is in the inspiration: How do you get women into arcades, Namco said to themselves? What do women like to do? After heated debate, the answer was clear: They like to EAT!

As for Pac-Mania merchandise… I’ve got something called "Pac-Man Panic!" which is hard to describe: a transparent plastic sphere, bearing a big three-dimensional Pac-Man in the center, with a jaw that opens and shuts. The object of the game is to maneuver the little ghost-colored balls into Pac-Man’s mouth, which is difficult because you have to roll them up the inside of the sphere, then jerk it away, more often than not jerking his mouth shut as well. Stupid pizza boy.

Chestnuts roasted by G'Tron @ 06/06/2003 12:30 PM

I tried to tell my girlfriend that a cat was playing with the magnetic pac-man and she got all piss-faced. maybe it’s because she’s cookin’ mad food and i’m laughing my arse off at funny pictures on this site. =( sad face

Chestnuts roasted by Nelson @ 08/12/2003 7:52 PM

i was chilling playing pacman when ……….

Chestnuts roasted by chris nobton @ 06/30/2004 9:35 AM

i was chilling playing pacman when ……….

Chestnuts roasted by chris nobton @ 06/30/2004 9:35 AM

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