Pac-Man Trading Cards

Pac-Man Stickers & Rub-Offs, commonly referred to shorthand as Pac-Man Trading Cards, is a series of trading cards released in 1982 by Fleer. Each pack of cards included three sticker-backed cards, three coin scratch-off games, and a stick of bubblegum. The series was later followed up by additional sets based on Ms. Pac-Man and Super Pac-Man.
== Overview ==
The main sticker cards generally feature Pac-Man and the Ghosts with speech bubbles above their heads; with the characters saying phrases like "Waka! Waka! Waka!" and "Catch me if you can!". The Ms. Pac-Man cards feature some notably indecent (and sometimes risque) quotes, such as Ms. Pac-Man saying "I'm a liberated woman". Several cultural references of the 70s and 80s can be seen in the cards, such as Ms. Pac-Man saying "Let's get physical" and Pac-Man eating a talking burger that says "Have it your way".
== Trivia ==
*For unknown reasons, there are three distinct variants of the Pac-Man cards. Earlier American print runs use a simple, single-color design of Pac-Man that is lacking eyes; later print runs give Pac-Man eyes, but also add a blue and red shadow around him, similar to the letter "C" in the Pac-Man franchise logo. The European set is based on the later print American variants; however, all of the artwork appears to be redrawn from scratch, and places a "PAC-MAN TM" notice along Pac-Man's lower mouth.http://pacstar.mycoldwater.com/ydiff.htm
**The Ms. Pac-Man cards also have variants adding the "PAC-MAN TM" notice to the characters, though all versions of the Ms. Pac-Man cards use the colored-shadow Pac-Man.
*Some pieces of "Pac-Store" artwork and merchandising were based on the Fleer Pac-Man cards.
*Several of the Ms. Pac-Man cards mention an "Act IV"; this is a reference to the intermission screens from the original arcade game, which end after "Act III" in the actual game. Coincidentally, some later home ports of Ms. Pac-Man (long after the cards were released) do add an additional fourth cutscene act.
== Gallery ==
For this page's full gallery, see Pac-Man Trading Cards/Gallery.
== References ==
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