Pac-Man and the Ghost Diggers

Book cover.

Pac-Man and the Ghost Diggers is a children's picture book published in 1983 by the Western Publishing Company. It is based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon and houses many maze puzzles inside of it. Read-along versions (on both record and cassette) were also released by Kid Stuff.

Plot

Pac-Man is walking home with Baby Pac-Man after picking Power Pellets in the hidden forest but is not aware that he is being watched by the ghosts Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Sue, all of whom loathe Pac-Man due to all of Pac-Land preferring Pac-Man over the mean ghosts as they continue to pursue Pac-Man and Baby Pac-Man to stakeout until they go home per the instructions of Inky. Blinky and Pinky then suggest the idea to dig a tunnel to Pac-Man's cellar as that is where Pac-Man keeps all of his power pellets which makes Sue yell out in excitement and causes Pac-Man to overhear them and head off to the Mystery Maze to lose the ghosts.

Pac-Man and Baby Pac-Man successfully go through the Mystery Maze before they have to go through a Jungle Maze next which has a hungry Pac-Lion inside of it as Pac-Man rushes inside of it which causes him to miss the sign while Baby Pac-Man gradually gets more exhausted from all the running. Pac-Man successfully gets past the maze and Pac-Lion before heading off into a Rock Maze which they go through successfully as well but leaving Baby Pac-Man so tired that he has to ride on the wagon. Pac-Man and Baby Pac-Man arrive back home where Ms. Pac-Man greets her husband and child and welcomes them back inside of their home.

The ghosts on the other hand, took three whole days and heavily bruised as Inky complains that he knows someone helped Pac-Man get through the mazes while the others complain on how they got lost and bruised along the way but this doesn't deter them as they head off to dig to Pac-Man's cellar still. The ghosts get lost on their dig and begin to argue with each other which leads to Pac-Man, Ms. Pac and Baby Pac-Man overhearing some strange sounds as the ghosts accidentally dig into a lake, get washed away and argue with each other while Pac-Man hears the sounds of the water, much to his confusion.

Trivia

• Clyde is entirely absent from the book but his role is taken by Inky who is colored orange while Blinky takes the role of Inky and is also cyan. Additionally, "Blinky's" hat is not the same one as the cartoon.
• Inky breaks the fourth wall with his assumption in knowing that someone helped Pac-Man through the mazes.
• The French translation of the audiobook release of the book features the region's theme song for the animated series "La Chanson De Pac-Man" during the opening, and an instrumental version during the maze segments of the book.