{"id":46135,"date":"2025-03-26T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=46135"},"modified":"2025-03-26T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:37:44","slug":"pac-man-celebrates-45th-birthday-by-becoming-super-monkey-ball-banana-rumbles-latest-playable-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/pac-man-celebrates-45th-birthday-by-becoming-super-monkey-ball-banana-rumbles-latest-playable-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man celebrates 45th birthday by becoming Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble\u2019s latest playable character\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sega have announced a nostalgic new character DLC for the Switch game <strong>Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble<\/strong>. To coincide with Pac-Man\u2019s 45th birthday, the iconic yellow blob who debuted in arcades back in 1980 has been added to the game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250326-46135-001.jpg\" alt=\"Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble Pacman collaboration DLC\" class=\"wp-image-46138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250326-46135-001.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250326-46135-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250326-46135-001-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Players who purchase the Pac-Man DLC can chomp their way around Super Monkey Ball\u2019s 200+ stages as Namco\u2019s hungry mascot. Not only that, but playing as Pac-Man replaces single bananas with pellets and bunches of bananas with cherries (naturally, gold bananas become super pellets) to give you an extra hit of nostalgia. It still remains a mystery as to how Pac-Man can eat the pellets though the ball though.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Waka waka waka! PAC-MAN powers up for a new adventure in Banana Rumble!<br><br>See in-game bananas transformed into PAC-MAN\u2019s iconic pellets, the bunch of bananas will turn into cherries, and the golden bananas will turn into a power pellet! \ud83c\udf52 Available now! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TopIlcXYrO\">https:\/\/t.co\/TopIlcXYrO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Qy9o1IDoS\">pic.twitter.com\/3Qy9o1IDoS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Super Monkey Ball (@SuperMonkeyBall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SuperMonkeyBall\/status\/1904715024997741038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To use Pac-Man in-game after buying the character DLC, players must install the 2.02 update, which launched today (full patch notes <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SuperMonkeyBall\/status\/1904722499331301456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>).).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble is available now on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/store\/products\/super-monkey-ball-banana-rumble-digital-deluxe-edition-switch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nintendo Switch<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/sega-made-super-monkey-ball-banana-rumble-switch-exclusive-because-its-been-the-best-selling-platform-for-past-titles-producer-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sega made Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble Switch-exclusive because it\u2019s been the best-selling platform for past titles, producer says<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble gets Pac-Man character DLC, meaning you&#8217;ll be gobbling up pellets and cherries instead of bananas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":46137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-46135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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