Post by forgotusername on Feb 17, 2019 5:54:36 GMT
Been meaning to post this somewhere for ages, this seems like the best place to do it...
I have a Pac-Man flyer from 1983, which seems to be for companies licensing out the character. There’s nothing too notable about it, except for this excerpt from the bottom:
“Hollywood! A full-length feature film starring Pac-Man will be released in the Spring of ’84.”
I’ve seen no other mention of the film elsewhere, except in an interview with Toru Iwatani (creator of Pac-Man). There he states that “…there was a plan to produce a live action PacMan film in the US, but it never happened”. (https://geekculture.co/interview-with-toru-iwatani-creator-of-pac-man/)
Clearly nothing came of this, but did anything survive? Was anything even created, or did they just put it on a flyer prematurely? Could the video game crash of 1983 have something to do with it?
Slightly crappy picture of flyer attached below.
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I have a Pac-Man flyer from 1983, which seems to be for companies licensing out the character. There’s nothing too notable about it, except for this excerpt from the bottom:
“Hollywood! A full-length feature film starring Pac-Man will be released in the Spring of ’84.”
I’ve seen no other mention of the film elsewhere, except in an interview with Toru Iwatani (creator of Pac-Man). There he states that “…there was a plan to produce a live action PacMan film in the US, but it never happened”. (https://geekculture.co/interview-with-toru-iwatani-creator-of-pac-man/)
Clearly nothing came of this, but did anything survive? Was anything even created, or did they just put it on a flyer prematurely? Could the video game crash of 1983 have something to do with it?
Slightly crappy picture of flyer attached below.
