High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pac-Man (also known as Pac-Man: The Animated Series) is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera based upon the video and arcade game series, Pac-Man by Namco (later merged with Bandai and became Namco Bandai Holdings), which premiered on ABC and ran from 1982 to 1984. During the first airing of the show, the large number of advertisers sponsoring it caused commercial breaks to be double their normal length. Later episodes featured normal commercial break times.