Play Pac-Man on Google’s Homepage

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Google celebrates the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man.

The Pac-Man maze is built from the Google letters, and if you wait 10 seconds without typing then the game starts!

FUN!

The game works very nice and is made from plain HTML, CSS, Javascript and PNG sprites. Flash is only used for sound. The whole thing loads in the background using a timer and has minimal effect on the browser. No fancy HTML5 involved.

Doing a quick Google (SSL) search shows some discussions and even a link to a standalone downloadable version.

Pac-Man is one of the first computer games I ever played with, dating back to the early 80s, playing on the ATARI400 – an awesome computer which looked exactly like the picture below:

God will forgive me for throwing it away.

Here’s the cartridge used for playing Pac-man :

* Update – You can play the game with Two Players by inserting two coins! (Player-2 keys are A/W/D/S). (This was reported here)
* Update – Now available at - www.google.com/pacman

* Update –  I’ve uploaded a local copy of the Google doodle. Just visit the following link and play ;)
http://operandx.com/GooglePacman/Play.html
* Update – 48 hours passed, and the Google Pac-Man Doodle stopped working as expected. As previously mentioned, you can download it here. And to fully enjoy it with the great sound effects, extract the zip file to a local directory (e.g. c:\GooglePacman), Double click the ‘Adobe Flash settings manager.url’ file, click the ‘Edit locations…’ combo box, then ‘Add location’, and use the browse for folder button. Now go on to opening the ‘Play GooglePacman.html’ file using your favorite browser !
-Z

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