Pac-Man SP: a fan rescues Namco's Japan-only 2011 mobile game

Among the hardest games to save are those made for Japanese mobile phones, the "keitai". Pac-Man SP, released by Namco in 2011 in Japan only, has just been preserved by a fan known as Yuvi (YuviApp), who specialises in forgotten Japanese titles. The game had long been removed from sale.

According to Time Extension, it was probably recovered from an old phone that still had it installed, which is often the only way out for this kind of title: once the store closes, the only surviving copy lives in the device's memory. Yuvi's post is dated 2 November 2026.

The content is a classic Pac-Man: a port of the 1980 arcade game, plus an Arrange mode in the spirit of Pac-Man Arrangement. That mode adds speed bumps, one-way passages, oversized ghosts and teleport pads, while the original game stays included for purists.

An Arrange mode that reshapes the maze

For now, no confirmed way to play it has been announced. The article expects it to join the Keitai World Launcher soon, an archive of Japanese phone games. The easiest option is to watch the Keitai Archive downloads page to see when it appears. We provide no download link until something official is published.

Source: Time Extension