Pac-Man Fever (video game)

Pac-Man Fever is a video game released for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube, developed by Mass Media in 2002.
==Gameplay==
Pac-Man Fever plays similarly to the Mario Party series, and was likely inspired by it to some extent. You, along with three other players, are put on top of a map divided into different tiles. Playing similarly to a board game, the goal is to get your character to the end of the map before anyone else.
Each game's round starts with a minigame - the final score of said minigame will determine how many moves each character will make (1st place = 5 moves, 2nd = 3, 3rd = 2, 4th = 1). When the players return back to the board, they move to their new positions automatically. 
Once a player has reached the end, the game is over and players will receive redemption tickets based on how far they got on the board. These can then be used to buy each minigame separately, which can be played in short tournaments outside the main game. Alternatively, once all minigames have been bought, the player can let the tickets tally up to indicate their overall high score. 
=== Tile Functions ===
Each tile has a rather effective function; these include moving forward/going backward a few steps, losing/gaining/stealing tokens, or playing a single/two-player minigame. There are also store tiles, which allow the player to spend earned tokens on power-ups or a raffle game to earn redemption tickets. 
When on a store tile, the player can spend tokens to: move steps forward, move others backward, buy raffle tickets, or gamble to earn more tokens. The three spaces before the goal are raffle spaces for a redemption ticket of the fruit on the space (cherry, orange, and banana). The more raffle tickets you have for the fruit, the better chance you have of winning the redemption ticket. Also, depending on the space you're on, you need to place a certain rank or higher in a minigame.
==Characters==
=== Player colors ===
* Royal Blue = Player 1
* Purple Heart = Player 2
* Thunderbird = Player 3
* Forest Green = Player 4
=== List of characters ===
Only two of Pac-Man Fever's playable characters are actually from Pac-Man (that being Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man themselves), with the rest being from other Namco and Mass Media games.
*Pac-Man
*Ms. Pac-Man
*Heihachi Mishima (Tekken)
*Tiger Jackson (Tekken)
*Astaroth (Soul Calibur)
*Reiko Nagase (Ridge Racer)
===List of mini-games===
====4-player mini-games====
Name 	Stage 	Challenge?	Tickets
Raise the Flag 	Backlot 	No 	—
Fruit Mash 	Backlot 	Yes 	—
Ghost Whackers 	Backlot 	Yes 	—
Vend-a-Fruit 	Backlot 	Yes 	—
Dart Toss 	Backlot 	Yes 	—
Cart Dash 	Backlot 	Yes 	—
10 Pin Jungle 	Tropical	No 	8
Snappy Shells 	Tropical	No 	7
Tropical Tag 	Tropical	No 	7
Tiki Shootout 	Tropical	No 	4
Jungle Jog 	Tropical	Yes 	8
Go Fish 	Tropical	No 	8
Torpedo Pond 	Tropical	No 	4
Balloon Splash 	Tropical	No 	5
Disc Duel 	Space 	No 	5
Launchball 	Space 	No 	6
Space Junk 	Space 	Yes 	7
Rocket Blast 	Space 	No 	5
Moonball 	Space 	No 	6
Meteors 	Space 	No 	6
Abduction 	Space 	No 	7
Homerun Castle 	Medieval	Yes 	8
Bell Tower Climb	Medieval	No 	7
Gauntlet Golf 	Medieval	No 	5
Knightmares 	Medieval	No 	6
Cannon Tac Toe 	Medieval	Yes 	7
Fool's Hockey 	Medieval	No 	5
Market Maul 	Medieval	No 	4
====2-vs-2 mini-games====
Name 	Stage 	Challenge?	Tickets
Pier Pressure 	Tropical	Yes 	7
Solar Soccer 	Space 	Yes 	8
Feudal Foosball	Medieval	No 	6
====Token mini-games====
Name
Token Drop
Token Bounce
Token Chain
Token Trampoline
*All token mini-games are used in Fever mode when a player lands on the token mini-game square.
==Trivia==
*Somewhat infamously, Pac-Man Fever does not feature its namesake song in any way, shape or form. However, it has since been revealed that the game was supposed to feature the song as its main theme, but was removed due to negotiations with Buckner and Garcia falling through.https://twitter.com/InstantArcade/status/1304963983519019010
*There was a planned minigame known as "Dance Contest", which was effectively a clone of Dance Dance Revolution, but it was removed out of legal fear.
*It appears that at one point, Pac-Man Fever was planned to be titled "Pac-Man Party".https://www.awn.com/news/pac-man-lives-super-78 This name would later be given to a 2010 game.
*There were two Adobe Flash games related to the Pac-Man Fever video game, both produced in the early 2000s. The first one is just titled "Pac-Man Fever", and was published on an unknown website; the second is titled "Pac-Man Fever Trading Card Hunt", and was distributed via Neopets.
*Pac-Man Fever received highly negative reviews from critics, and to-date is the worst rated game in the franchise (even moreso than the infamous Atari 2600 Pac-Man). Despite this, the game was rereleased as both "Player's Choice" (GameCube) and "Greatest Hits" (PS2) variants, meaning it did likely sell somewhat high numbers.
*Heihachi's design in Pac-Man Fever is based on Tekken 3.
==Gallery==
=== Screenshots ===
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=== Artwork ===
Pac-Man Fever box art.jpg|GameCube box art.
Pac Man Fever video game print ad NickMag Nov 2002.jpg|Flyer advertising Pac-Man Fever.
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File:Pac-Man Fever box art 2.jpg|PlayStation 2 box art
==References==
Category:Games
Category:Pac-Man Games
Category:Console Games
Category:Crossovers