Pac Man 30th B-Day on Google.com - Playable too!

[Parrothead]

If you haven't already been to http://www.Google.com check it out today. Playable Pac Man to ring in Pac's 30th B-Day. Google is so damn cool!

 

Edited May 21, 2010 by Parrothead

[128bytes]

If you haven't already been to http://www.Google.com check it out today. Playable Pac Man to ring in Pac's 30th B-Day. Google is so damn cool!

 

 

Awesome. Any way to download this locally?

[pinball22]

I was just about to post about this... best logo ever!

[Prodos8]

If you put two coins in you can play two-players at the same time. Player two is Ms. Pac-man of course. The keys 'W' 'A' 'S' & 'D' control Ms. Pac-man.

[+Random Terrain]

Here's an article about it:

 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20005528-52.html

 

 

Here's the background image:

 

 

I downloaded pacman10-hp.2.js and pacman10-hp-sound.swf and pacman10-hp.png and pacman10-hp-sprite.png and grabbed code from the page, but I don't know enough about that stuff to get it to work.

Edited May 21, 2010 by Random Terrain

[StoneAgeGamer]

That is awesome.

[Tempest]

Just got to the second bell stage with a score of 53480. Once it gets going really fast it's too hard to control with a crappy little keyboard. The collision detection is a bit dodgy too as I passed through ghosts several times unharmed. It's neat that they did that though.

 

Tempest

[NE146]

I passed through a ghost too.. which you could do in the arcade version, but one thing I did that I never saw before was I passed through a blue ghost

[nathanallan]

Cool!! I actually got a phone call BEFORE I looked at Google and the person thought he was infected with something Too cool, hooray Google!

[Chris Leach]

Very nice of Google to love Pac-Man as they do...

[Emehr]

Just noticed this. I went went to drag and drop the logo onto my desktop (because I like to keep cool Google logos) and was totally surprised when it started to play!

[Parrothead]

Running a Google Pac Man High Score Contest. Submit your screen shot with score to the GG forums (below) A nice classic gaming prize package is up for grabs. Contest running as long as Google runs the page

 

 

 

http://www.gamegavel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2951&p=15872#post15872

[Herbarius]

Anyone figured out how to save/archive that? Tomorrow it will propably be gone, and that's a shame.

 

Not that I wanted Google to run this thing all the time, but it would be nice to be able to show people this at a later date, if they have missed it... or even if they didn't, like "still remember when Google did this?"

Edited May 21, 2010 by Herbarius

[+thanatos]

I've found the hiding spot. (Which is pretty simple to do)

 

[Tom-Lynx]

I was at a Best Buy today and tried it on an iPad and it worked perfectly. Pretty cool....proves you don't always need to use Flash.

[+Omegamatrix]

Coolest Google page ever!!! I played it for a little while at work today. At first I thought it was a .gif until I pressed the arrow keys, and then I turned on the sound and it got even better!!! Damn cool.

[+Random Terrain]

I was at a Best Buy today and tried it on an iPad and it worked perfectly. Pretty cool....proves you don't always need to use Flash.

The sound is in a swf file, so it kind of uses Flash.

[Prodos8]

I saved a copy of the page but the game won't play then.

[almightytodd]

I was at a Best Buy today and tried it on an iPad and it worked perfectly. Pretty cool....proves you don't always need to use Flash.

The sound is in a swf file, so it kind of uses Flash.

There's an article here that talks about how everything but the sound works on an iPad or iPhone...

[+TrekMD]

This is indeed cool. Just tried it and I'm amazed at it. Too bad it isn't downloadable!

[ericwierson]

Just got to the second bell stage with a score of 53480. Once it gets going really fast it's too hard to control with a crappy little keyboard. The collision detection is a bit dodgy too as I passed through ghosts several times unharmed. It's neat that they did that though.

 

Tempest

I am having a tough time also with my keyboard. I have not run into any bad collision detection yet, I wish I could though. Is there anyway to download this? Nevermind my answer has been addressed by Trekmd.

Edited May 22, 2010 by ericwierson

[+Random Terrain]

How smooth is it running on other computers? On mine, it runs like a puppy humping your leg. Everything moves in one second pulses.

[ericwierson]

How smooth is it running on other computers? On mine, it runs like a puppy humping your leg. Everything moves in one second pulses.

Runs pretty smooth here, there is some hiccups (sp) occasionally. It has not affected my gameplay too bad, but I never was any good anyway.

[+Random Terrain]

How smooth is it running on other computers? On mine, it runs like a puppy humping your leg. Everything moves in one second pulses.

Runs pretty smooth here, there is some hiccups (sp) occasionally. It has not affected my gameplay too bad, but I never was any good anyway.

OK, must be my computer then. Too old or too many things running at the same time or both.

 

 

Thanks.

[tetrode kink]

Man, I hate to sound like a Google fanboy, but that is just so cool!

 

Whoever programmed it was a true Pac-Man fan, too, because it even has the controls right - You can press and let go of a direction key and when the Pac-Man gets to the next available turn in that direction, he'll take the turn! Most Pac-Man ports leave out that little detail. IMHO that is an essential component if you want to make a faithful Pac-Man port.

 

Truly Awesome!

 

-tet