The History of PAC-MAN: The Animated Series & A Battle With The SMURFS

[TMC]

PAC-MAN fever was everywhere and back in the early '80s that meant merchandising and, beyond that, it meant a cartoon.

But how do you take a concept like PAC-MAN, the video game, and turn it into PAC-MAN, the cartoon? And how do you do compete with the Saturday Morning juggernaut that was THE SMURFS?

[Hawkee]

My mother is a GIANT Pac-Man fan and she adores Pac-Man from the time it debuted and would spend many happy hours playing Pac-Man at the arcades and even today Pac-Man is still her favorite video game. But when Pac-Man mania came alive in the 80's Pac-Man would soon become a huge household name. But I never knew Pac-Man had a cartoon series and the reason why I think Pac-Man The Animated Series took off was because when you stick video game characters in their own animated series it is a sign that the game will sell more and they hoped it worked for Pac-Man. But you can see why Pac-Man became a hot property in the 80's because video games were in their infancy and when Pac-Man debuted it meant a big boom to the video game world. Mom would love Pac-Man The Animated Series because she is a Pac-Man addict and I never knew that the cartoon existed