Pac-Man World is a platform video game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation. Controlling Pac-Man the player must complete each of the game's six worlds by collecting a certain amount of pellets to open up an exit door. The plot follows Pac-Man's enemies the ghosts crashing his 20th birthday and kidnapping his friends and family to bring them to their homeland of Ghost Island — with his birthday in ruins and his family in trouble Pac-Man sets out to rescue them and defeat the ghosts.