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  |date = <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">'''February 26, 2002 (original)'''
  |date = <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">'''February 26, 2002 (original)'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''PlayStation 2'''<br>{{Flag-US}} February 26, 2002<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/02/26/pac-man-world-2-eoe-and-tiger-woods-2002-ships-today "Pac-Man World 2, EOE, and Tiger Woods 2002 Ships Today"] (''IGN''; February 26, 2002)</ref><br>{{Flag-JP}} July 25, 2002<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020601222516/http://www.namco.co.jp/home/cs/ps2/pacmanworld2/index.html Official Japanese site] (archived via Wayback Machine)</ref><br>{{Flag-EU}} 2002-3?<br>'''GameCube'''<br>{{Flag-US}} March 12, 2002<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/02/27/pac-man-world-2-2 "Pac-Man World 2"] (''IGN''; February 27, 2002)</ref><br>{{Flag-EU}} 2002<br>'''Xbox'''<br>{{Flag-US}} 2002<br>'''PC'''<br>{{Flag-EU}} Q1 2004<ref name="europc" /><br>{{Flag-US}} 2004<br>'''Game Boy Advance'''<br>{{Flag-EU}} August 2005<ref>[https://www.eurogamer.net/whatsnew-190805 "What's New? (19th August 2005)"] (''Eurogamer''; August 19, 2005)</ref><br>{{Flag-US}} October 2005<ref>[https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/release-this-heating-up-pricing-down-getting-horizontal "Release This! Heating Up, Pricing Down, Getting Horizontal"] (''Game Developer''; October 16, 2005)</ref></div></div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">'''PlayStation 2'''<br>{{Flag-US}} February 26, 2002<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/02/26/pac-man-world-2-eoe-and-tiger-woods-2002-ships-today "Pac-Man World 2, EOE, and Tiger Woods 2002 Ships Today"] (''IGN''; February 26, 2002)</ref><br>{{Flag-JP}} July 25, 2002<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020601222516/http://www.namco.co.jp/home/cs/ps2/pacmanworld2/index.html Official Japanese site] (archived via Wayback Machine)</ref><br>{{Flag-EU}} 2002-3?<br>'''GameCube'''<br>{{Flag-US}} March 12, 2002<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/02/27/pac-man-world-2-2 "Pac-Man World 2"] (''IGN''; February 27, 2002)</ref><br>{{Flag-EU}} 2002<br>'''Xbox'''<br>{{Flag-US}} October 2002<ref name="decTRST">[https://web.archive.org/web/20030213103356/www.theonionring.com/Dec_TRSTS.html Archived copy of a TRST spreadsheet reporting on December 2002 game sales]</ref><ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/05/03/full-load-of-namco "Full Load of Namco"] (''IGN''; May 3, 2002)</ref><br>'''PC'''<br>{{Flag-EU}} Q1 2004<ref name="europc" /><br>{{Flag-US}} 2004<br>'''Game Boy Advance'''<br>{{Flag-EU}} August 2005<ref>[https://www.eurogamer.net/whatsnew-190805 "What's New? (19th August 2005)"] (''Eurogamer''; August 19, 2005)</ref><br>{{Flag-US}} October 2005<ref>[https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/release-this-heating-up-pricing-down-getting-horizontal "Release This! Heating Up, Pricing Down, Getting Horizontal"] (''Game Developer''; October 16, 2005)</ref></div></div>
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'''Pac-Man World 2''' is a 3D platform game and the follow-up to the original ''[[Pac-Man World]]''.
'''Pac-Man World 2''' is a 3D platform game and the follow-up to the original ''[[Pac-Man World]]''.
== History ==
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== Previews ==
== Previews ==
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== Sales ==
=== United States ===
Note that every row save the bottom two are sourced from the NPD Group's TRST system, which (as of February 2002) only covered 22 retailers<ref group="note">Ames, Best Buy, Beyond.com, Buy.com, Circuit City, CompUSA, Electronic Boutique, Family Toy Warehouse, Fred Meyer, Gamestop (including FuncoLand), the JCPenney Catalog, Kmart, Meijer, Outpost.com, Sears (including its Wishbook), Shopko, Target, Toys R Us (including its website), and TWEC.</ref> that accounted for around 55-60% of the market.<ref name="launchTRST">[https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/2ef99913-7f4f-4c50-b949-6609ee67e835 NPD interactive entertainment weekly report (February 24 - March 2, 2002; archived on the Video Game History Foundation Library)]</ref> Therefore, it does not account for sales made outside these specific stores (notably including Walmart, who [https://kidscreen.com/2003/10/01/npd-20031001 pulled out of the system in July 2001] and [https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/walmart-lifts-restrictions-on-u-s-game-sales-data would not return until July 2011]).
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Date !! Copies sold that week !! Copies sold that month !! Total sold
|-
| 2002-03-02<ref name="launchTRST" /> ||colspan="3;" style="text-align: center;" | 2,828 (PS2)
|-
| 2002-12<ref name="decTRST" /> ||style="background-color: gray;" | || 18,583 (Xbox)<br>13,228 (PS2)<br>10,511 (GameCube) || 28,528 (Xbox)<br>169,716 (PS2)<br>88,850 (GameCube)
|-
| 2003-01<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030418152635/http://www.theonionring.com/01-2003-TRSTS.html Archived copy of a TRST spreadsheet reporting on January 2003 game sales]</ref> ||style="background-color: gray;" | || 3,651 (Xbox)<br>1,823 (PS2)<br>2,431 (GameCube) || 32,179 (Xbox)<br>171,538 (PS2)<br>91,281 (GameCube)
|-
| ≥2006-07-29<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071028115051/http://www.next-gen.biz/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3537&Itemid=2&pop=1&page=1 "The Top 100 Games of the 21st Century"] (''Next Generation''; archived via Wayback Machine on October 28, 2007)</ref> ||colspan="2;" style="background-color: gray;" | || ~1,000,000<ref group="note">As a whole, the ''Pac-Man World'' games had sold an estimated 1,800,000 units by this point.</ref>
|-
| ≥2007-12-27<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080509132932/http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml The Magic Box's US Platinum Chart] (archived via Wayback Machine on May 9, 2008)</ref> ||colspan="2;" style="background-color: gray;" | || 1,210,000
|}


== Websites ==
== Websites ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20020601222516/http://www.namco.co.jp/home/cs/ps2/pacmanworld2/index.html Official Japanese site] (archived via Wayback Machine on June 1, 2002)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20020601222516/http://www.namco.co.jp/home/cs/ps2/pacmanworld2/index.html Official Japanese site] (archived via Wayback Machine on June 1, 2002)
== Notes ==
<references group="note" />


== References ==
== References ==

Latest revision as of 22:06, 30 January 2026

Pac-Man World 2 is a 3D platform game and the follow-up to the original Pac-Man World.

History

Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Laboratory

  Download File
Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Building near water wheel

  Download File
Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Early version of Sue's Arcade

  Download File
Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Tower-shaped building

  Download File
Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Early Pac-Village design

  Download File
Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Flower and fountain statue

  Download File
Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Early Pac-Village buildings

  Download File
Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Eerie nighttime city

  Download File
Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Unused boss vehicle

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Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Unused hot tub boss (Conlon's favorite design)

  Download File
Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Unused lumberjack boss

  Download File
Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Fish boss

  Download File
Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Unused welder boss

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Concept art by Pete Conlon
🇺🇸 1999-2000?

Ghost boss

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Previews

NOURS
🇯🇵 Summer 2002
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Sales

United States

Note that every row save the bottom two are sourced from the NPD Group's TRST system, which (as of February 2002) only covered 22 retailers[note 1] that accounted for around 55-60% of the market.[9] Therefore, it does not account for sales made outside these specific stores (notably including Walmart, who pulled out of the system in July 2001 and would not return until July 2011).

Date Copies sold that week Copies sold that month Total sold
2002-03-02[9] 2,828 (PS2)
2002-12[5] 18,583 (Xbox)
13,228 (PS2)
10,511 (GameCube)		 28,528 (Xbox)
169,716 (PS2)
88,850 (GameCube)
2003-01[10] 3,651 (Xbox)
1,823 (PS2)
2,431 (GameCube)		 32,179 (Xbox)
171,538 (PS2)
91,281 (GameCube)
≥2006-07-29[11] ~1,000,000[note 2]
≥2007-12-27[12] 1,210,000

Websites

Notes

  1. ↑ Ames, Best Buy, Beyond.com, Buy.com, Circuit City, CompUSA, Electronic Boutique, Family Toy Warehouse, Fred Meyer, Gamestop (including FuncoLand), the JCPenney Catalog, Kmart, Meijer, Outpost.com, Sears (including its Wishbook), Shopko, Target, Toys R Us (including its website), and TWEC.
  2. ↑ As a whole, the Pac-Man World games had sold an estimated 1,800,000 units by this point.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "LSP to publish more Namco PC titles" (Eurogamer; November 6, 2003)
  2. ↑ "Pac-Man World 2, EOE, and Tiger Woods 2002 Ships Today" (IGN; February 26, 2002)
  3. ↑ Official Japanese site (archived via Wayback Machine)
  4. ↑ "Pac-Man World 2" (IGN; February 27, 2002)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Archived copy of a TRST spreadsheet reporting on December 2002 game sales
  6. ↑ "Full Load of Namco" (IGN; May 3, 2002)
  7. ↑ "What's New? (19th August 2005)" (Eurogamer; August 19, 2005)
  8. ↑ "Release This! Heating Up, Pricing Down, Getting Horizontal" (Game Developer; October 16, 2005)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 NPD interactive entertainment weekly report (February 24 - March 2, 2002; archived on the Video Game History Foundation Library)
  10. ↑ Archived copy of a TRST spreadsheet reporting on January 2003 game sales
  11. ↑ "The Top 100 Games of the 21st Century" (Next Generation; archived via Wayback Machine on October 28, 2007)
  12. ↑ The Magic Box's US Platinum Chart (archived via Wayback Machine on May 9, 2008)
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