Namco registers Japanese trademark for 'Pac-Man Kart Rally'
by JC Fletcher 
on Jan 20th 2010 10:04AM
Pac-Man World Rally for PS2
Namco Bandai has registered trademarks in Japan for
Pac-Man Kart Rally -- and
Pac-Man Rally Kart. It just couldn't decide!
Siliconera notes that the previous
Pac-Man kart racer,
Pac-Man World Rally (not
Rally World) was never released in Japan, so if this one is intended for Japan, it'll be the nation's first
Pac-Man vs. ghosts racer.
As for what Namco Bandai will use this trademark for, we have no real information. It makes sense for Namco Bandai to be thinking of releasing new
Pac games on the 30th anniversary of the arcade original. Were we to guess, we would point out that there have been a lot of
iPhone games out of
Namco lately, and Konami recently put a
mascot kart racer on the platform.
