*Google promises Pac-Man forever*
Pac-Man 30th anniversary doodle to become permanent
Ian Paul PCWorld.com
Due to overwhelming popularity, Google has announced that its
interactive 30th anniversary Pac-Man doodle has earned a permanent spot
on Google.com. From now on, whenever you need a Pac-Man fix just point
your browser to Google.com/pacman and you can enjoy the search giant's
version of this iconic video game any time you like.
While you've been able to find online versions of Pac-Man for years,
Google users were thrilled to find a working version of the video game
designed as Google's logo on Friday.
Google Pac-Man gameGoogle posted the homepage doodle in celebration of
Pac-Man's 30th anniversary, and the game was only supposed to remain
available for 48 hours. But enthusiastic user feedback to "Pac-Google"
inspired the search giant to rethink its plans.
Numerous sites popped up offering free downloads of Google's Pac-Man for
those who wanted to keep their own copy once Google took the game
offline.
Twitter users cracked jokes about how Google had killed US productivity
on Friday by putting the game (including all 256 levels) across the
screens of millions of office workers. There were even suggestions that
Google's JavaScript-based Pac-Man was a subtle jab at Apple CEO Steve
Jobs.
When Namco and Midway games introduced Pac-Man to North America in 1980
it quickly became a fixture in American popular culture. Pac-Man
inspired numerous video game spin-offs, board games, lunch boxes, a
Saturday morning cartoon and several versions for home video game
systems.
Despite the overwhelming user reaction to Google's 30th anniversary
doodle, I have no doubt Pac-Man fever will start receding over the next
few days. But never fear, once this version of Pac-Man is forgotten, I
have no doubt it will live on as fodder for those always popular
articles detailing Google's best Easter Eggs of all time.
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Post by Francois LE COATI played PacMan for its 30th anniversary on <http://www.google.com/>
Google is my friend :-) Happy birthday Mr. PacMan, it's brilliant !
You just have to press "Insert coin" and eat pills avoiding ghosts.
Ho, this game is HTML5 compliant. I played it with Safari, on my PMG4.