Pac-Man Ghost Zone - 2009 PlayStation Museum Cancelled Game of the Year

[MarioGenerations]

And did the kid become Pacman or get kidnaped?

[BrickBlaster5000]

If Pac-Man wasn't a classic game in the 80's, And was as important as Bubsy 3D, This would of been released, And said to be one of the worst PlayStation games. I think if this game was fixed of bugs, better enviroments , And if Pac Man was re-designed, Thids game would of been alright.

[MarioGenerations]

Also it looks like nintendo64 not Playstation

[MarioGenerations]

Are those Blue things power pellets?

[Riku2677]

WHERE IS DANNY PHANTOM!

[cmurillo100]

let me just say that this game looks SO cool. I know there is a bunch of glitches BUT soon they could fix it.

[yoshithedrawmaster]

They should change the movement because it looks rather annoying...

[BLEAHGames124365]

Also, what is that horrible noise that Pacman keeps making? Most of the sound effects seem to have been re-used in Pacman World, but that voice noise isn't used anywhere else. It's rather annoying to tell the truth.

[BLEAHGames124365]

It would appear that the pacman model used for this game was touched up, modified, and re-used in Pacman World 2, as it has similar animations to the pacman model from that particular game.

[animevideogamesfan37]

The story is ok but the gameplay it's a little weird. I think Pac Man World is better but I would love to see a comic or mini series about Pac Man Ghost Zone, it would be nice ^_^

[TrueDudeX]

@Econniff Funny story, actually. A Pacman platformer called Pac-Land came out a year before Super Mario Bros. did, so technically all platformers are ripoffs of a Pacman game. (Though there may have been a platformer or another before it...)

[TheEscapedBalloon]

What a whiny little brat at the beginning. How dare he bash Pac Man?

Pff.. This game looks pretty sweet.

[TheDARKYOSHI64]

God i wish they realesed this game or finished making it. it looks like it would of been a damn good game... ='(

[SomeFluffer64]

Looks like the controls are simmilar to Bubsy 3D...

[MultiMariosonic]

NO!!! y did they cancel this?!?!?!?!

[MultiMariosonic]

ignore this i din't know this game was made in 1996

but anyways

who wants a new pacman platformer already?

its the only reason i ever liked pacman.

if they dont make another pacman, i'll be done playing pacman all together.

[cmurillo100]

can anyone tell me if the kid turned into pacman or got kidnapped or something cause im 10 i feel bad and i dont get this at all

[BLEAHGames124365]

@cmurillo100 The kid got blasted with the ray and turned into pacman. They did this so that they could use Pacman's likeness without acquiring the actual Pacman rights, to which Namco of Japan refused to let them use.

[20eric07]

@BLEAHGames124365 How does that make them exempt from acquiring the rights?

[BLEAHGames124365]

@20eric07 I don't know. I guess they thought that a character turning into something resembling the copyrighted character in question made them exempt from having to obtain permission or something.

[20eric07]

@BLEAHGames124365 But... you can see "Namco" on the level where he rolls a ball.. Surely this means this was developed/going to be published by Namco?

[BLEAHGames124365]

@20eric07 I guess not Namco of Japan. It's weird, apparently Namco of Japan has the rights to Pacman, not Namco of America. This created some sort of problem where JP wouldn't give NA permission and they decided to use their own story or something.

[oomsbun]

i had a 3d pacman game for pc i forget wat it was called but it still had original feel to it it was fun as

[SafasoTV]

i can see why it was canceled.

[devonjames10]

Looks like Bubsy 3D.

That's not good.

[SiriusWolfStudios]

The ghost Lord's voice is perfect! why was this game canceled!? I'd personally buy it at any cost. I wanna play it now! *cries*

[pokenas]

just cause every other platformer came after super mario 64 doesnt mean its a ripoff of it!

[EnglishTurtle]

This game would've been poorly recieved :/

Just by looking at it, I can see quite a few flaws, in terms of level design and it's overly generic platforming.

[zcoolspot]

Wow, Your Good! To see lots of flaws in a game that was only about 10%! I guess seeing the lead designer was the same guy that brought you Abes Oddysee, Maximo Ghost to Glory, Daxter for PSP and many more hits, you might be right ;-) hehe

[EnglishTurtle]

Well, I do know a bad game when I see one.

[HamtaroSonicHedgehog]

@EnglishTurtle:Well Think about it,This is an Unfinished Game,So Expect to see alot of Glitches and stuff into the game that makes it look bad,But Ah Well,Maybe it would have been poorly recieved..but We'll never know now...

[Azubigaertner]

Oh man this sucks sorry but is this really a game?

[Czarewich]

Reminds me of Banjo Kazooie sort-of, and I think with some more time it could have been something awesome.

[Econniff]

I probably would have just been a Mario 64 ripoff...but it would've been a pretty damn good one. And in the end, aren't all platformers nothing more than ripoffs of one Mario game or another?

[BLEAHGames124365]

@Econniff To tell the truth, this looks like it was based off the Bubsy 3D engine, but modified. Either that, or Bubsy 3D used Pacman Ghost Zone's engine.

[blackmagestaff]

Who's doing the voice over at the beginning?

Or did thay already have that made?

[PlayStationMuseum]

The voices were assumed to be supplied by the development team. The designer remembers providing the voice for the Ghost Lord.

[seazonegranec]

sometimes I miss these graphics

[cooppp]

Looks more like Mario 64 then Pac Man World

[PlayStationMuseum]

It was modelled after Mario 64 and controlled more like the first Tomb Raider. The main reason it was cancelled is because it just didn't feel like Pac-Man. Namco made the right decision in re-designing Pac-Man World, but Ghost Zone had a lot of potential.

[clubbiohazard]

Me habría agradado mucho jugarlo, ¿Cuál es la diferencia de estos dos juegos en cuanto a escenarios y modos?.

[cooppp]

Ok, that makes sense, thank you.

[PTSnake]

if it was a non-pacman game, it would actually look/play good for it's time, sure...

...but as a pacman game? Not really

[Stepith]

This game almost looked complete and has a intro in the storyboard process.

Indeed they have to add some more music and perfect the controls but had they given it some more time, this game would have seen the light of day

Still this game looks awesome and I would like to play this one some day

[SecretAgentJonathon]

this looks like it would have been a good game