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"Internet" Wasn't very accessible prior to 1996. Most people were still using local and regional Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) as there was no access fee for using such beyond your normal phone service usage rates, and literally any computer with a modem could connect to or host a BBS. CompuServe and Prodigy were both pricey options that required decent computer hardware to use and were the cheapest options for anyone to get a glimpse of the internet. True ISP access was mostly unknown and priced well beyond the reach of the average consumer as it was regarded as a corporate & institutional service.

Hasbro wouldn't have had anything to do with Pac-Man toys back then. The big players in that market were the Japanese toy makers; Bandai, Takara, and Tomy. Bandai and Tomy both sold toys directly in the American markets, but Takara had a licensing and distribution agreement with Hasbro. As I vaguely recall, the wind-up Pac-Man toy my sister had was made by Tomy. Also Kenner and Matchbox were both major producers of licensed toylines. Kenner was bought out by Hasbro in the 1990's, and Matchbox was aquired by Mattel in either the late 1990's or the early 2000's. Bandai and Tomy both still exist. Tomy and Bandai are your two best bets to check into for finding out about Pac-Man figures in the early 80's.

Matchbox produced, under license, the entire Robotech toy line for the North American market, which did include action figures. In Japan, season one of Robotech was the anime series "Super Dimension Fortress Macross", and I raise this point up as there was a "Super Dimension Fortress Macross" video game released exclusively in Japan for the Emerson Arcadia 2001 video game system, which from best of my understanding said game was released in 1983.