Pac-Man Sure Looks Different In Amazon's New "Adult-Animated Anthology Series"

That's the scariest yet coolest sphere I've ever seen

It already looks 15 times better than "Ready Player One."

I dig it.

This looks like such a love letter to video games and the guy was tearing up just talking about it! I can’t wait for this series.

I like the idea of this show. It's a cool way to adapt games that might not have the budget or narrative depth for their own full tv series. Unfortunately, I don't have much interest in any of the announced properties.

Will watch just for megaman, hope its good

@MurkyDawn agreed. If I understand it right it sounds like Marvels What if series. So I'll probably only tune in to the megaman episode. And maybe the pacman one.

@LadyCharlie at least it isn't ready player two, that book is pretty pretty bad

Amazon wishes they had an actual console, as seen by how much gaming content they (sometimes haphazardly) push

@InTree They've been trying to enter gaming with their Luna service but it's basically the same sort of thing as that failed Google service.

Can't they just make the normal looking Pac-Man for a change?
Kinda tired of them using the pizza with a slice version like a mindless beast.

Live action Mega Man!

Pac-Man reminds me of that Stephen King miniseries The Langoliers. Anyone else think that, or is it just me?

sigh

Have we learned nothing from Bomberman: Act Zero?

I just really hope we don't get any grimdark/bleak takes on the characters. I grew bored of the Adi Shankir-style "subversive" crutch a long time ago.

I'm only watching for Mega Man, Pac-Man, Sifu, and PlayStation (yes, PlayStation is also one of the included IPs in the show).

If it's by the people from Love Death and Robots I will definitely watch this

@Elbow To be fair WH40K is involved, so relatively everything else will be puppies and sunshine in comparison on the grimdark scale.

@HotGoomba That's no sphere. It's a Pac Station.

If it makes season 2, I hope they do Katamari Damacy and Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan

Captain N's looking a little different these days...

Seems like it has some potential. Though it sullies itself by including garbage like Concord.

Can't say the premise sounds appealing to me. But I hope it will be enjoyable for those excited about it.

Digging Mega Man‘s new design (credit goes to shamgetz on instagram)

Love Death and Robots was amazing. Hopefully this is just as good.

OK, but like, what.... IS it?

This should be intriguing...

mega man looked like smth ai whipped up but looks cool!

This is something that could go either way.

This show will inevitably be a mixed bag but I am 100% going to give it the benefit of the doubt as I love the idea.

@Chinesus Very fair point! I just mean if they try to make Pac-Man or Mega Man a more sinister or dark/edgy type of story.

@AstroTheGamosian

The Langoliers FASCINATED me as a child, and yes I've thought of them as big scary pac-men before, too 😂👍 cheers

@Elbow

I can't tell if you are being serious, but i just watched the trailer and to me it looks so gritty I feel like I need to brush my teeth.

@-wc- Still a chance it's a fakeout (though 99% not likely). I just want to be optimistic.

@-wc- Honestly, I only have very vague memories of that miniseries as a kid, having watched it in a hotel many, many years ago. It took watching the Nostalgia Critic's review of it in the last few years to jog my memory of what the Langoliers looked like. Needless to say, the CGI looked terrible, but what do you expect for a miniseries that only had a budget of about $3-5 million?

@AstroTheGamosian

let me tell you: to my tiny child brain, in the early 90s, those flying electric meatballs were TERRIFYING 😂

tbh I havent gone back to it because I want to preserve that image in my mind but I'm sure they look terrible. 😂

if this is in your wheelhouse, then have you seen the 90s "Stephen King's The Shining" miniseries? 👍👍

@Elbow

haha! I would never want to take that from you 😅✌️

@-wc- Yeah, I remember having a nightmare about those things after seeing that. I dreamt that they were chasing me around the yard.

Admittedly, I've never seen the miniseries version, only a part of the movie version with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. That being said, I did watch the Nostalgia Critic's review of the miniseries, and according to one of the people in the review, Jack Torrance's character was better in the miniseries versus the movie.

And I can see it: the miniseries version was more nuanced and sympathetic, whereas the movie version had almost no redeeming qualities. Whereas Jack's madness in the miniseries and book was due to being possessed by ghosts, Jack's madness in the movie more or less came across as a bad case of cabin fever.

But overall, I'm not really a horror fan. I don't know if it counts as horror, but the only horror movies I care to watch are the original Godzilla from 1954 and Tremors. That being said, I did kind of like The Howling, which was about werewolves and starred the likes of Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, and Robert Picardo. That, and its sequel, which starred Christopher Lee in the only role I've ever seen him in where he played a good guy.

I would hope adults are animating this. I don’t condone child labour

@-wc- Sounds like you should check out Garth Marengi's Darkplace, if you haven't already.

You can keep your nostalgia goggles on for your fave shows and still enjoy somehing new from eras gone by.

@Daniel36

thanks for the rec but you are too late! I'm a darkplace fan from way back. 😄👍

"I'm one of the few people who can honestly say that they have written more books, than they have read..." 😂

if you havent seen Toast of London I'd throw that one back to you 👍 good silly show.

I miss when video games were nerdy and not so mainstream.

@-wc- Good! Not many people know it. Heard of Toast, but not sure where to find it.

How did they take pac-man and turn him into...that?!

Bold of them to assume I have any attachment to Concord