Sundry Sunday: Pac-Man Snack Breaks

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. Bandai Namco has yet another new Pac-Man cartoon series, I think this is the fourth? This one is a monthly series of short (not Short) Youtube videos called Snack Breaks. Namco’s commissioned a bunch of sidelines based on their characters. Anyone else remember Shiftylook? None of them seem to last for long, and they seem to have no interest in preserving them. This one’s a series of Youtube videos, and while videos there are by no means guaranteed to last indefinitely, so long as they get even a trickle of views they seem to last. I’m full of little observations of these cartoons, the result of an obsession with Pac-Man that began for me in third grade. Like, there’s no Ms. Pac-Man in these, due to B-N retconning her out of Pac-continuity due to GCC’s co-ownership of that game. However, in the trailer, we do see Professor Pac-Man, which is much further from Namco’s…