Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures

**Pac-man and the Ghostly Adventures** is an American-Canadian-Japaneese animated comedy-adventure children's television series featuring Namco's classic video game character Pac-Man.

The entire series was made available on october 1.

## **Premise**

**Pac-man and the Ghostly Adventures** follows the homonymous character and his best friends Spiral and Cylindria who help to protect citizens from the threat of ghosts after the seal that locked up the Netherworld was accidentally opened by Pac at the time he was avoiding the school bully Skeebo.

## **Official 'HBO Max' Description**

> "*Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures follow the daily events of Pac as he saves Pac-World. Together with his friends Cyli and Spiral, Pac and his buds face the issues of being teenagers while also protecting Pac-World from a ghostly army led by the evil Betrayus.*."
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## **Cast**

### **Heroes**

* Erin Mathews as Pac-Man/Pacster
* Andrea Libman as Cylindria
* Sam Vincent as Spiral

### **Ghosts**

* Lee Tockar as Inky
* Ian James Corlett as Blinky
* Ashleigh Ball as Pinky
* Brian Drummond as Clyde/Butt-ler/Dr. A.H. Buttocks
* Sam Vincent as Lord Betrayus Sneakerus Spheros

### **Pac-Worlders**

* Sam Vincent as President Stratos Spheros
* Ian James Corlett as Sir Cumference
* Matt Hill as Skeebo
* Ashleigh Ball as Spheria Suprema
* Erin Mathews as Ms. Globular
* Mark Oliver as Mr. Strictler
* Lee Tockar as Mr. Dome

## **Production**

### **Release**

**Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures** debuted on June 15, 2013, on Disney XD USA and March 17, 2014, on Disney XD Canada. It moved over to Family Chrgd on October 9, 2015. In the Philippines, it aired on Disney Channel on March 3 and ended on October 30, 2014, to give way for the special programming of "Monstober". It returned to air on March 2, 2015. On May 7, 2019, more than a month after KidsClick's demise, Discovery Family premiered the series on November 16, 2019 as part of a distribution deal with 41 Entertainment

### **Videogames**

Several video games based on the show have been developed. An endless runner for iOS and Android titled **Pac-Man Dash!** was released in July 2013. This is also hosted for free in Canada on the CHRGD website. In 2017 "Bandai Namco Entertainment" decided to discontinue **Pac-Man Dash!** and remove it permanently from the Apple Store and Android Market.

A 3D platformer with the same name as the TV series was released for Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC in late 2013, accompanied by a 2D platformer for the Nintendo 3DS shortly after. A sequel was released in October 2014. Characters from the show have also appeared in the compilation release for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC, titled **Pac-Man Museum**.

## **Trivia**

* All of the vehicles are based on fruits and vegetables.
* There are many things in this TV show that are highly reminiscent of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. For example: Pinky has a crush on Pac-Man, while Amy has a crush on Sonic; the Power Berries are loosely similar to the Chaos Emeralds; and Metal Pac-Man is hugely based off of Metal Sonic.
* It's the second series based on Pac-Man. The first one was the 1982 series of the homonymous character.