Pac-Land (SSS)

:This article is strictly about how Pac-Land appeared in Super Smash Stadium. For information about it in general, see its article on the Pac-Man Wiki.
Pac-Land is a retired stage on Super Smash Stadium. It debuted two months into Season 12, and is the 56th stage to debut overall. It appeared 30 times in the two years it was active.
==Stage overview==
It was a recreation of the stage in the Pac-Land arcade game. After spending about three seconds at the "Player 1 Ready!" screen, you started at Pac-Man's house and went through a town area with fire hydrants in it. These fire hydrants functioned just like Pac-Man's down special, only 8-bit. The buildings functioned as soft platforms. After you went through this, the stage scrolling stopped, and a "Break Time" section appeared for 15 seconds.
You then went through a forest, appearing behind any trees you encountered. Tree trunks appeared as obstacles. You could actually push to the right two of either the three tree trunks and/or the three fire hydrants from the previous section, and would get a Mushroom effect for doing so. Another Break Time happened after this segment.
Finally, you went through a lake area via a log bridge. You could pick up a model ship to add more platforms to this bridge, but you had to be careful of the waterspouts, which would push you back considerably. After this, you'd appear in Fairy Land for 30 seconds, where the Mother Fairy would spawn Wing Shoes that would double your jump height if collected.
You would then go back to Pac-Man's house, with some changes to the journey: Area 3 would now be a massive canyon that you would have to cross using collapsing bridges. If you managed to find the "Special Pac" here, you'd turn invincible. You would then go by the lake again before returning to the town area; here, pushing away a specific fire hydrant (it changed every pass) would give you balloons that you could use to heal yourself. Finally, you'd return to Pac-Man's house, with Mrs. Pac-Man at the door waiting for him. No Break Times happened at this point.
The cycle then began all over again, now in a sunset, then at night, then at early morning, before switching back to day.
==Changes==
The scrolling was RIDICULOUSLY fast on the first playing (and possibly the second), the day-night cycle wasn't present, and the sky had a greenish tint to it.
==Why it was retired==
Almost everyone, show staff, fans, and contestants alike, thought this stage was a janky disaster to play on. The scrolling went too fast (even after the toning down noted above!), and the return trip's backwards sidescrolling was a pain to navigate.
Also, the music, which belongs to a borderline-pornographic game that, naturally, only ever saw release in Japan, was seen as WAY out of place.
==In its own universe==
Pac-Land is a 1984 arcade game, notable for being the first appearance of Pac-Man in his 3-D form (with a face, arms, and legs), as well as the first appearance of Mrs. Pac-Man in an official Namco production. It was also the first game to feature parallax sidescrolling, a feature that didn't appear in any of Nintendo's 8-bit showings and wouldn't show up until Super Mario World 1.
==Notes==