10 Video Game Underdogs That Defied All Odds

10. Pac-Man (Pac-Man)

What may seem like a simple premise on the surface can actually be considered the dramatic journey of a protagonist on a quest to win at all costs. Ghosts, who become more volatile in further stages, were no match for the perseverance and evasive nature of Pac-Man.

The iconic 19080's maze arcade game saw the protagonist Pac-Man trapped in a maze, with the sole purpose of eating all blinking dots in said maze to proceed to the next level.

Opposition came in the vicious form of the Ghost gang, where Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde would chase down the hero in order to stop him from achieving his goal. As Pac-Man progressed to the next level, the Ghosts would get increasingly smarter and faster, forcing the hero to get smart or die.

Pac-Man's never-give-up attitude, coupled with the intelligent use of power pellets to fight back against the ghost, illustrated what sort of underdog he truly was. When the jump was made to 3D in 1999's Pac-Man World, he nevertheless still possessed the same traits in order to both defeat the Ghosts and save his friends.

Even though the original game was rudimentary at best, one can't overlook the fact that although there were progressively harder odds stacked against him, Pac-Man was one of video gaming's foremost underdogs in history.