Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures, known in Japan as Hello! Pac-Man, is a side-scrolling adventure game "sequel" to Pac-Man. Instead of being a maze game like the majority of its predecessors, Pac-Man 2 incorporates light point-and-click adventure game elements. It was produced and published by Namco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis systems, and was released on April 6, 1994 by Namco. The game borrows its structure and certain elements from Pac-Land, and also appears to contain certain elements from the animated series, such as Pac-Man's family and a main villain commanding the ghosts. The Genesis version was not released in Japan or Europe.
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DeveloperNamco
PublisherNintendo, Namco Hometek, Ballistic
ReleasedAugust 26, 1994
StatusReleased
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About This Game
Pac-Man's days as a hero don't stop him from getting tangled in a string of domestic disasters. Sent by his family on errands — fetching milk for Pac-Baby, tracking down a birthday flower for a friend of Pac-Jr.'s, and recovering his son's stolen guitar from ghosts in Pac-City — every trip somehow spirals into a new ordeal. The real threat surfaces when the Ghost Witch of Netor reveals that ghosts have been pilfering ABC gum from children citywide, then challenges Pac-Man to face her personally. He traces the operation to an abandoned factory where she has built a towering Gum Monster. Transforming into Super Pac-Man, he defeats the creature and sends the witch fleeing — though in the chaos, nobody's gum is recovered.
Hidden within the game are a pair of video arcades where classic Pac-Man titles can be played. Collect three missing cartridge pieces to unlock a bonus game: Ms. Pac-Man on SNES, or the exclusive Pac-Jr. on Mega Drive/Genesis.