Is my brain mush or was there a Pac-Man cartoon? I'm pretty sure there was but the mind boggles at what the storylines must have been about.

I think you're right, Darrin.

The only thing I remember about it is I remember it!

there definitely was. the ghosts were characters, too (didn't one have a had or somethig?) and there were wee-pacs as well. I distinctly remember the xmas special, though i think there was an attempt at syndication. I'll check it out when i get home, as i'm getting the hell out of the office now.

here ya go:

http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/609.html

"Computer games don't affect kids: I mean, if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc., 1989

That's awesome.

At least up until a couple years ago, the Cartoon Network was still running the Pac-Man cartoon Xmas Special around the Holidays. I tried to watch a little once as a goof, & it was about the most annoying fucking thing I'd ever seen.

i kicked arse at this game, back in the day. ms pac man, too.

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the show lasted 2 years, and was at some point was paired up with "Rubik, the Amazing Cube Hour", which is a little less than disturbing.

Chomp Chomp was voiced by Frank Welker, who has at one point played like every cartoon pet ever. Scooby, Dino, Spike...even Avenger.

So it was Pac-Man that did that to me, then. Or maybe Centipede or Asteroids.

Whoa - they need to have a wedding for the cat and dog. They're living in sin.

I remember having a 45 of a song called Pac-Man Fever...no idea who the singer was

also had one with some sort of E.T. song...not from the movie, some guy singing about E.T.

"The game also underwent a name change. Pac Man's original name was Puck Man -- but a savvy executive at Bally/Midway, which distributed the game in the United States, had it changed on all machines, fearing what game room vandals would do with the original moniker. "

Buckner & Garcia.

Got a pocket full o' quarters and I'm headed to the arcade...

I think they originally just recorded "Pac-Man Fever" as a single and released it on 45, then when it blew up they made songs about Donkey Kong and Frogger, among others for a full-length.

Also, besides the Pac-Man cartoon, there was Q-Bert, who wore a letter jacket, presumably to distract from his giant schnozz that resembled a pocket pussy. I think Coily, the purple snake, and his gang were the leather-clad thugs of whatever the hell mutant school those freaks went to.

Then there was the Frogger cartoon, which would have been rather gruesome or boring depending on which angle you took, so they made him walk upright and star as the hot-shot reporter for some frog newspaper.

Also, let's not forget the timely yet unrelated WWF cartoon.

and let's not forget TURBO TEEN.



Not game-related, but nevertheless, strangely addictive in it's own right. It had kids around the nation dropping to their knees in the schoolyard, grimacing and contorting in their imaginary conversion into a sports car that fights crime!

What about 80s video games that were cartoons?

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The "cartoon" games were based on laserdisc technology.

A buddy of mine had Buckner & Garcia's "Pac Man Fever" single in the picture-disc format...the picture was a screenshot of the game, natch.

those games were hard as hell.

gauntlet was the shiiiiiit.

I wonder if they make this for PS2? I remember playing it at a pizza place and running out of quarters when i got to the dragon.

I think they also had a Q-Bert cartoon.