![]() ![]() But since I don’t like the marshmallows, I picked the oat bits as my favorite (yes, that was a selection). It would tell you what kind of person you are based on your favorite Lucky Charms marshmallows. One time I took a personality quiz on the Internet. Pac man cereal full#So it just KILLED me as a kid that my favorite video game character’s cereal was full of marshmallows! Yuck! Because of that, I never liked any of the marshmallow cereals, such as Lucky Charms, Count Chocula, etc. So why did I hate the Pac-Man cereal as a kid? Well, even at a young age, I never liked sweet and sugary food very much (yes folks, I’ve always been very boring). ![]() But I do remember it being in a bright green box, and it was a little better tasting than the DK cereal.įor those of you who know me, even just a little, you probably know that I’m a HUGE Pac-Man fan. I don’t remember it much as a kid, since it wasn’t on the market for very long. It had round red berry shapes and yellow banana shapes. And just as the Donkey Kong cereal was a rip-off of Cap’n Crunch, the DK Jr. Yup, one of video game’s first sequels also got a breakfast cereal ‘sequel’ for a while, too. And since I was never a fan of the original Cap’n Crunch, I didn’t like the Donkey Kong cereal either. But even as kids we knew it was really just a Cap’n Crunch knock off. I think they changed the shape slightly to make the bits look more like DK’s barrels. One of the first arcade games also had one of the very first video game breakfast cereals! Donkey Kong cereal was basically the same as Cap’n Crunch. So get out your bowl, spoon, and milk, and let’s begin! I said the cereal had blue rings and orange rings just like the portals in the game, and the box had the two co-op robots holding the bowl and spoon! But it got me to thinking about video game based breakfast cereals I remember as a kid, so I thought that in this blog, I’d go over the ones I can recall. I nearly convinced her that they had just made a Portal breakfast cereal, due to the popularity of Portal 2. I would love it if we could also bring back Smurfs cereal with marshmallows.The other day I played a trick on my mom. The cereals of the 80's were on another level. ![]() PLEASE bring it BACK! Best Cereal of ALL time.īy marshmallow kin ( Team Breakfast Member) Let us hope it comes back just to enjoy for a brief time and to collect the box lol. I grew up on this Pac-Man treat and will never forget it. ![]() Pac man cereal how to#Pacman knows how to chomp on the ghosts when he gets a power pellet. He and Donkey Kong and Mario were around when I was born back in 1982 and I play thier other video games all the time. It was so good since I love cereals with Marshmallows and Pacman is a great video game icon. The Pacman cereal should be brought back. Still am wondering until what year they were sold, because I was born in 1985 and clearly remember having to deal with my father in the grocery store for him to buy me some, real early 90's. Rogers takes a trip down the cereal aisle where you can see Pac-Man cereal along with other discontinued favorites like Donkey Kong Cereal and Buc-Wheats.Ĭlick here to see all cereals from General Mills. Known premiums: Rain-Blo Color Bubbles Gum inside the package, send-away offers for a "Ghost Chomper" hat or Pac-Man game watch, entry details to win a full-sized Pac-Man arcade game or a mini electronic version of the game, a cut-out Pac-Man mobile, and send-away offers for a neon camera (Canada), a Pac-Man bowl or a Pac-Man ring. The cereal was said to taste like an extra-sugary version of Kix Cereal with marshmallows. Pac-Man marshmallows with a "a shocking pink bow" and Super Pac-Man marshmallows which were just larger versions of existing Pac-Man marshmallows.Īnimated children eating the cereal in commercials referred to themselves as "ghost chompers". The marshmallows were shaped like Pac-Man, and the game's ghost characters: Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. The cereal was a "crunchy sweetened corn cereal with marshmallow bits". Pac-Man Cereal hit the shelves in 1983, capitalizing on the huge success of the arcade game Pac-Man which had taken America by storm the since it's introduction in 1980. ![]()
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