4582: Garfield Miru Garfield

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Garfield Miru Garfield
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Made by: -NOYZ-


Explanation[edit | edit source]

This strip appears to serve as a jab at those believing the Pac-Man series to be a dead series. It is unknown when this strip was actually made and first submitted, thus it is difficult to discern which year the author was referring to in reference to there being more and better Pac-Man games than Mario games; 2021 itself did see the initial release of the now-defunct Pac-Man 99 as well as a now-defunct Facebook game (both falling defunct in 2023), but also saw three Mario releases.

Miru is the titular "pal" of Pac & Pal, the third Pac-Man game produced in-house by Namco. She notably never saw the light of day outside Japan until 2006 when Pac & Pal was included in the Super Pac-Man Collection plug-and-play dedicated console released in the United States by Jakks Pacific; Pac & Pal prior to then had only been released in limited supplies in Europe under the name Pac-Man Chomp & Chomp with Miru replaced with Chomp Chomp from the Pac-Man animated series (with a planned North American release including Chomp Chomp titled Pac Man & Chomp Chomp scrapped due to failed location tests possibly caused by oversaturation of Pac-Man titles not authorized by Namco).

Contrary to what the author's notes appear to imply (this strip being the second Pac-Man-themed SRoMG strip), the strip the author linked to--2040: Obvious Crossover (Pac-Man)--is actually the second Pac-Man strip on the Square Root of Minus Garfield site, 2032: Pac-field just eight strips before that being the first.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

I hate when people say Pac-Man is a dead or dying franchise when it literally has more (and better) games released this year alone than the Super Mario franchise, one considered by those same people as alive and well. Also, I think this is the second Pac-Man strip on the entire site.

Original strip: 2012-04-14.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Miru: Amazing what you can learn online
Pac-Man: My series is DEAD?!
Miru: Like how gullible some people are