PAC-MAN turns 30 today, Google celebrates with playable logo

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PAC-MAN turns 30 today, Google celebrates with playable logo
Sat May 22, 2010 1:42pm

" On May 22 1980 Namco released the original PAC-MAN, and to celebrate, Google has inserted a fully-functional version of the game into its logo. Any visitor to the popular search engine can now play a Flash version of the iconic ghost-dodging, dot-munching arcade game, right in their browser.

Namco is also celebrating, and has launched a promotional PAC-MAN 30th Anniversary website, chock full of trivia, more playable Flash games, competitions, and merchandise.

The site also includes in-depth interviews with PAC-MAN's creator, Toru Iwatani, in which he reveals the reasoning behind the arcade hit's distinctive design.

PAC-MAN is the first cute game. Before PAC-MAN was released, most games were aggressive, where you did things like shoot aliens. At the time when PAC-MAN was released, the image of the game arcade was that it was a dark and scary place, and it's a place for only guys. However, we knew that there would be no future in arcades unless girls and couples would come in as well. So PAC-MAN was planned around the concept of "Let's have girls in game arcades." That's also why the enemy characters were colorful – they would be harder to hate. "

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I thought that the pac-man rom was still copyrighted or maybe it was the sound? guess not :happy: still kind of funny

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Any visitor to the popular search engine can now play a Flash version of the iconic ghost-dodging, dot-munching arcade game, right in their browser.

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It's not Flash, it still works with it disabled. It looks like JavaScript-based to me.

More interesting facts:

On July 3, 1999 33-year-old Billy Mitchell of Hollywood, Florida achieve the game's maximum score of 3,333,360 points. Mitchell navigated 256 boards (or screens), eating every single dot, blinking energizer blob, flashing blue ghost, and point-loaded fruit, without losing a single life.

An funny documentary to whatch is "The King of Kong". It's based on the classic arcade game King Kong. Passionate video gamers compete to break Billy's World Record. It's a good doc and it's definitely worth watching... even if you don't play games.

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HAPPY B-DAY PAC-MAN!!!11!!11!one!1!11

I guess I'm pretty rusty, not even made to level 3 :'(

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Originally Posted by Expeto

I guess I'm pretty rusty, not even made to level 3 :'(

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took me afew to get past the 1st screen 'the last g was killing little pac-man'

ahh so that's what it was! and here I was wondering what Pac-Man was doing on google! (I wonder if they got the permission from Nintendo though lol)

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Well thats why I was hearing that sound coming, whenever I was opening google page on that day!!!!

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Originally Posted by bondgannu

Well thats why I was hearing that sound coming

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You didn't look at their logo? :unsure:

^^ lol in that case, he missed a massive blatant pac-man logo up there

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Due to overwhelming popularity, Google has announced that its interactive 30th anniversary Pac-Man doodle has earned a permanent spot on Google.com.

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http://www.google.com/pacman :)

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Originally Posted by anon-sbi

You didn't look at their logo? :unsure:

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Originally Posted by kooltilldend

^^ lol in that case, he missed a massive blatant pac-man logo up there

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Well Idid at there logo, thats why the sound was coming whenever I opened google page on that day :D

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Originally Posted by cinephilia

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Due to overwhelming popularity, Google has announced that its interactive 30th anniversary Pac-Man doodle has earned a permanent spot on Google.com.

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http://www.google.com/pacman :)

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Well thanks for that link, I had hands on that game, had fun!!
PAC-MAN forever!!

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Originally Posted by cinephilia

http://www.google.com/pacman :)

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Someone also made an offline version:
http://github.com/macek/google_pacman/archives/master

Also, have a look at this :lol:
The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man – 4.82 million hours
http://blog.rescuetime.com/2010/05/2...million-hours/

Celebrating the good ol' pacman. What a legend :)

Aah, that game brings back memories. I spent many quarters on that game back in the day. Shit, now only if it were a quarter a game these days. A quarter on a Pac-Man game back in the day took you a long way.