Modern videogame adaptations can be rough, but at least they're trying. Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Unlock instant access to exclusive member features. Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. Not every TV series based on a game can be a real corker like Fallout or Arcane. The Halo TV show was a disappointment. The Witcher series on Netflix started strong but fans found more and more to dislike as time went on. Critics and viewers both gave a pretty strong thumbs down to the Resident Evil TV show. But I've been watching the very first TV show ever based on a videogame, and it's given me some perspective. We're doing real good here in the future of television adaptations. We're spoiled, in fact. Pac-Man was an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera from 1982 to 1983, and I probably don't need to explain this part, but it was based on the Pac-Man arcade games. In the show, Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man (called Pepper, for some reason) and their child, Pac-Baby, live in Pac-Village, in Pac-Land, which is run by Pac-President and protected by a superhero named Super-Pac. I know they didn't have much material to work with—in the game Pac-Man is just a circle who eats smaller circles, so it's not exactly a Sapkowski novel—but could they have put a bit more effort into it? Was the script meeting just an exercise in quickly slapping the word "Pac" onto everything between rails of cocaine? Imagine if the Fallout show was as lazy with its worldbuilding. It'd be a show about Fall-Girl leaving the Fall-Vault, meeting Fall-Ghoul, and crossing Fall-Land to find her Fall-Father.