What I don’t like about the American Pac-Man art is that it essentially spawned this negative stigma over Pac-Man having limbs, when he’s had them since the beginning.

The Mappy U.S. cabinet is very unique, I like it!

I love how they didn’t bother trying to make a new bezel for Super Pac-Man, they just recycled puck-man’s bezel and call it a day lol.

This is really my thought but I think the main reason Namco still uses the US artwork for Pac-Man merchandise is yes while it's still ugly and not close to the original Japanese artwork it's very rememberable to Americans and iconic to them as well since that's what they saw back in the 80s. Let's also not forget that Pac-Man's success really came from US arcade sales since that's where it really exploded success. So really the main reason they keep it is for nostalgia's sake among those who remember it the most.

A local pizzeria used to have an original U.S. Pac Man cabinet. I remember staring at the artwork, specifically what was supposed to be Pac Man and just trying to wrap my brain around how it resembled the character in any way.

I'm happy to finally learn who the illustrator of the Japanese Pac-Man cabinet art is! I really like that style growing up and took some inspiration from it for a comic book I'm making. I already have the first issue out for it on my website if you're curious about the project.

Thanks for showing me this.

Pac-Man Museum+ took a damn good step in the right direction with recreations of the bezels on the American cabinets (namely for Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Pac-Land and Pac-Mania but also Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2 was nice), and that's a step towards them recreating the Japanese bezels sometime in the future as well, please GOD let that happen soon.

I like the US design. It's more iconic IMO 🤷 The Japanese version has a cheap white with way too much going on. I prefer what US got, it's simple, iconic, and timeless just like the game itself!

Hey lane where did you get that japanese bosconian arcade cabinet artwork picture from cause i would like to have one.

I'd like to apologize in advance for having different opinions about the designs lol. While the Japan Pac-Man cabinet design looks great, I also really like the US design, it's just so weird looking it's got it's own charm to it I think. It kind of grew on me after playing Pac-Man on my ipod nano, and I have a US Pac-Man cabinet that I absolutely love as a grail for my collection. Though I do agree that the US character design doesn't lend itself to a lot of poses. Fun fact, I used to think this was the original Pac-Man as a kid lol. I totally get the love for the unified look of the Japan cabinets, but I also love the US cabinets. I guess I just like the variety of cabinet shapes and some of the more wacky designs like Mappy's. I'm actually wanting to make a cabaret based on the US design using my childhood Ms. Pac-Man plug n' play, don't hurt me lol. Actually, I'm also trying to make cabarets based on Rally X and Super Pac-Man, using the Pac-Man and Super Pac-Man plug-n-plays respectively. I think I'm going to stick with the US art for Super Pac I modified for a cabaret size, and I'd like to recreate the japanese bezel for Rally X if I can even find a good reference for it lmao.

7:20 Where is this clip from?

Thats a matter of opinion. I wouldnt want anything different in my experience at arcades in the late 70s and 80s.

What's the animation of Diglesss d. Douglas at 7:20 from?

I think the release date of this video's sequel is going to be March 25th

Please make more namco content please🙏🙏🙏🙏

I'd guess the blue ghost is a frightened ghost

my favorite Japanese artwork is galaga and pac man and the U.S. is galaxian, tank battalion and mappy

14:11 why you call inky on blinky ?

I like the US version more

Puck-Man, more like Fu- Nope! We are not going to say that to Namco

Wow!

There are fans of the Japanese cabinets, but the good smile toys sucks compared to looking at the numskull arcade toys which to me defeats the purpose of the whole thing. Don't own either because of low money, but besides the sometimes better art for pac-man jp compared to us, the toys are a different level.

0:38 and absolutely nothing has changed......

Sorry for my rude comment, don’t know what I was thinking.

Digless D Douglas Taizo Hori Dig Dug

Also you forgot to mention that when pac man came to the United States they changed his name from puck man to pac man because arcades where worried that immature teens might scratch out the P and make it an F

To say all this they never use the word Puck-man because they will use the letter F yet I agree that the US design should be like the Japanese design but instead of Puck-man they should use Pac-Man and not have this hideous design that Pac-Man looks like a blob and they the ghost looks weird looking.

The us namco arts are good but some parts or meh or kind of But the one that makes me angry is the midway art i mean why they could just use the same art put yellow more pacman japanese art and call it pacman but making pacman as a Q*bert freak dosent have to be pacman the japanese art is better speaking of japanese art if ms pacman and jr pacman were Linceses in Japan I bet they change the us art to the pacman japanese style of art well we kind of have a japanese art of ms pacman only in a namco musuem collection but we want a japanese art of these two games

6:38 i love pictures like that I’m even an inflation artist, i find some of them (including that one of babs bunny) adorable

no offense but you have the wrong opinions

I think I prefer the us versions the white is ugly and cheap looking the Japanese versions have too much going on it’s ugly

I find that Japanese border distracting and annoying

USA’s Galaxian cab is FAR more impressive looking and artistic than the one from Japan. You got that one WAY wrong, my friend Don’t even get me started on how blind you are when it comes to the PacMan cabs. USA all the way! A true artist sees that the Japan artwork is completely crammed and nowhere near as interesting as the USA PacMan