Christmas Comes to PacLand – Spin-Offs Classic

August 22, 2025 / No Comments

Gather round the fireplace and plop your power pellets into your cocoa mugs. We’re digging deep into this dusty gem of 80s holiday ephemera to get to the core of the holiday spirit, which is of course flagrant commercialism. Not only did Pac-Man have his own animated TV show, he had a Christmas special. Helping us to dissect this oddity, Jonathan Off Road Rules stopped by the studio to detail the platform for his run at US Congress while simultaneously regaling us with tales of how things used to be when America was deep in the throws of Pac Fever. Jesus kept coming up as well.

This episode originally released January 28th, 2023.

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Daniel Sanford

Daniel is a podcast producer and musician who spends way too much time in the edit to make audio sound as good as possible. He’s cutting the “umms” and “uhhhs” and replacing them with cartoon sound effects. His taste in video games is often extremely specific, and he’s recently learned that a lot of his opinions about video games are bad and wrong, but that won’t stop him from having them. His music was featured in Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons. He's been producing podcasts since 2021.