The Amazing Adventures of Pac-Man

The Amazing Adventures of Pac-Man is a record album released in 1982 by Kid Stuff. It was written and composed by Patrick McBride and Dana Walden, and is a loose follow-up to "The Pac-Man Album". A version on cassette tape was also produced.
This album has been re-released on various digital platforms (such as Spotify and YouTube) beginning in 2012, under license from The Orchard Enterprises.
== Overview ==
The Amazing Adventures of Pac-Man begins with a narrator detailing the city of Pacville, and the usual antics that occur there. Following this, the Ghost Gang (Shadow, Speedy, Bashful, and Pokey) form a plan to steal all of the Fruit in Pacville.
Unaware of the ghosts' ongoing theft, Pac-Man begins walking to the local fruit stand; wishing that today will be a breather from his usual days of chasing the ghosts. When he arrives at the fruit stand, the ghosts had just run off with all of the fruit - leading to Pac-Man chasing after them. To combat Pac-Man, Pokey drops a banana peel onto the ground; Pac-Man slips on the banana peel and faints.
Upon waking up, Pac-Man is called for by the "neighborhood rat". The rat claims to have information on the whereabouts of the ghosts, but will not provide Pac-Man the information unless he trades something for it. Pac-Man offers to trade his name for the information; resulting in the neighborhood rat becoming the "Pack Rat". Upon completing their trade, the Pack Rat reveals that the ghosts are hiding out in the haunted house on the hilltop.
Pac-Man enters the haunted house with a Power Pellet, eating the ghosts and taking back the fruit. Upon returning the fruits, Pac-Man is granted the "key to the city" by the Mayor of Pacville. The mayor asks Pac-Man how they can ever thank him; Pac-Man replies that he was just doing his job.
Much of the voice acting in the album features (intentionally) heavily slurred or stuttered speech, particularly for Speedy and the Pack Rat. Shadow solely speaks in a whisper with maniacal laughter.
== Tracklist ==
#"PAC-MAN Theme"
#"Take The Fruit And Scoot"
#"Slightly Crazy Lazy Day"
#"The Chase"
#"The Pack Rat Song"
#"I Hate Fruit Blues"
#"It's My Job"
#"PAC-MAN Theme" (reprise)
The digital release replaces the "reprise" of the Pac-Man theme with Buckner and Garcia's "Pac-Man Fever" (specifically the 1999 re-recorded version). The tracklist was not properly adjusted to accomodate for this, resulting in the following mislabeled order:
*The track labeled "I Hate Fruit Blues" is a portion of the story segment without a song.
*The track labeled "It's My Job" is actually "I Hate Fruit Blues".
*The track labeled "Pac-Man Theme (Reprise)" is actually "It's My Job".
== Trivia ==
*While more "story-focused" than the other Kid Stuff Pac-Man LPs, it is not one of the books on record/tape that comprised much of the series.
*The ghosts are referred to exclusively by their "Character" names, rather than their more common titles of Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde.
*The beginning and closing "Pac-Man Theme" is the same infamous version used in "The Pac-Man Album", though is considerably shortened in comparison.
*When Pac-Man slips on the banana peel, the Pac-Man death sound effect is played (sampled from the original arcade game). The following track, revealing Pac-Man had only fainted, is on the flip side of the record, somewhat acting as a cliffhanger.
*The digital release renames "The Pack Rat Song" to "The Rat Pack Song"; likely to make the eventual "packrat" pun less obvious from the title alone.
== External links ==
*"The Amazing Adventures of Pac-Man" on YouTube
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