Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures

*Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures* is the less popular semi-sequel to Namco's *Pac-Man*. It revolves around Pac-Man, who tries to solve problems for his family and eventually has to save the world from a mysterious figure.

This was the second *Pac-Man* game after *Pac-Land* to have an actual story; it's also notable for being the *only* *Pac-Man* game where you never truly get a game over.

It's also noted that people should at least play the game before reading the tropes. No links to play the game will be provided (if there were, they'd be taken down within a month).

## Tropes

* Innocent punishment: You can make Pac-Man suffer through a lot of these. Then there are the operators of the hotdog cart and the balloon stand, who do provide retribution if you make them go through this (by covering Pac in ketchup and filling him with helium, respectively).
* Obscurity, much?: We mentioned before that the game is a less-popular sequel to *Pac-Man*, correct?
	+ The Sega Genesis version gets the worst of this, since more people who know of the game usually think of the SNES version.
	+ And yet, the Sega Genesis version's obscurity is nothing compared to the Super Famicom version "Hello! Pac-Man". Despite the Super Famicom and SNES being more-or-less the exact same console (with the only difference being the cartridge shapes), the English translation is more well-known than the Japanese version. While this is true for a lot of *Pac-Man* games, some people even claim that "Hello! Pac-Man" (the original title of this game, mind you) is a bootleg of *Pac-Man 2*, leaving those who know more about the game's history to correct them.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: "Why Don't We Have That" example. The Sega Genesis version is North America-only.
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: Why did the Dark Witch specifically want *used gum* for her evil plan? Could she have just melted down unused gum to make the same results?
	+ Unlike the *Super Pac-Man* game, Pac-Man no longer turns giant when becoming Super Pac-Man. While that's reasonable (it would mean the game file would be bigger than Namco wanted), what isn't reasonable is the fact that Pac now magically dons a superhero mask and cape when eating a Power Pellet. Why does this game's Power Pellets do this while other games' Power Pellets do not?
* Super Evil: Besides the staple ghosts of the franchise, the Dark Witch also qualifies.
* Fauxnime: Inverted. Despite being developed in Japan, the game looks like a mix of 1940s and Hanna-Barbera-influenced animation, with only a few anime elements here and there.
	+ The Dark Witch looks like a typical Filmation villain. Again, this game was developed in Japan.
* Dubless Series: Not that there's anything to dub to begin with, but the Sega Genesis version was never translated outside of English.
* The Colbert Effect: After Team LevelUP commissioned an animated parody of this game, but said animation is still nowhere near a million views as of this writing.
* Padding Filler Z: Due to it being billed as an "interactive cartoon", you, the player, can cause this. Only when you do the task you need to do and head back to Pac's house (or defeat the Dark Witch in the final part of the game) does the level end, after all.
* Only One Setting: The entire game takes place in Pac-Land. Technically, Pac-Land is a huge place, but still.
* The Next Day is Always the Same: The first three missions have you doing a mundane feat for your family, such as getting milk or getting Pac Jr.'s guitar back. The ghosts do interfere in the second and third missions, though.
* Gainax Ruined the Ending: After the Gum Monster is defeated, the children still don't get their gum back.
* My Life Meme: Smug Pac-Man.
* Post-Conclusion Gameplay: Averted, unless you count some hidden passwords given after you complete the game as this.
* You Are Fired: Threatened by the Dark Witch to the Ghosts (if you count "Get out of my sight!" as an euphemism for being fired), but never carried out seeing there are ghosts in the lair alongside the Gum Monster in the final part of the game.