This is all incredibly ridiculous for fans and every company involved, but beyond the absurdity in this case it’s also another reminder that publishers can’t be relied on to properly preserve their own games, either. Pac-Man would have been due to feature in a new release in almost a decade. So it’s widely-speculated (though we’ve contacted Namco Bandai for confirmation) that the character’s change in this re-release is simply a consequence of the publisher no longer wanting to pay those royalties, especially since this is the first time Ms. As with most game of the genre, Sonic Dash has gameplay based off of that of Temple Run, in which player controls various Sonic the Hedgehog characters while racing across various locations of the series and fighting bosses. It is an endless runner mobile game developed by Sega Hardlight and released by Sega in 2013. Pac-Man went bust a long time ago, but that royalties interest has subsequently been bought by another company: AtGames, makers of that god-awful Genesis throwback console from a few years ago. Sonic Dash is a mobile video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. This arrangement has meant that every time the character has been used, Bandai Namco have had to pay royalties.

Turns out there’s a very likely reason, though as Polygon report, Bandai Namco have a unique royalties arrangement setup for the character, owing to the fact she wasn’t actually created by the company, but by a group of Americans for a game that started life as a Pac-Man mod and eventually got Namco’s blessing. What a weird thing to do, especially to a kinda-famous character like Ms.

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