Why has Pac Pack been removed?
The game “Pac Pack” has been discontinued because of its similarity to Pac-Man. No legal action was taken against us by Hasbro Interactive (the company that purchased the legal rights to Pac-Man), we have just decided to take the high road in this matter to prevent possible trouble in the future. When we created the Pac-Guy series of games and Pac Pack we were careful not to use any of Hasbro Interactive’s copyrighted images from Pac-Man nor the copyrighted words “Pac-Man”. We also made it clear that the game was a parody/satire and not a remake. This was to prevent us from being sued, and we were not sued, rather eGames was sued for their game “3D Maze Man” and the resulting fear caused “Pac Pack” to be pulled from store shelves, despite the fact that no legal action was taken against us or our publisher ValuSoft. In other words rather than take legal action against Astral Entertainment that they could have lost, Hasbro Interactive used scare tactics to get “Pac Pack” out of stores. A
