Google’s new Pac-Man doodle – one of the custom logos the company posts every few days to celebrate a special occasion – brings back all the elements of the original, including the ghosts, the fruits, the “wakka wakka wakka” and even the kill screen on level 256. Hitting the “insert coin” button even lets you play two-player mode with the WASD keys on your keyboard. (Read: TWO HANDED PAC-MAN.)
It’ll be up all weekend long, starting right now. Very cool, and it already has me looking forward to 2040 when the playable Red Dead Redemption Google doodle drops. Stop whatever you’re doing and go eat some ghosts at Google.
Update: The Google doodle Pac-Man goodness works on smartphones and iPads, too. Show those ghosts how you feel by (literally) flicking them off.
matt
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 5:32 PMyeah, nice work google, showing what can be done without flash, with javascript no less! how does it run on people’s old iphones?
still, a 30 year old game is hardly the most taxing tech demo :D , but it is the most awesome thing i’ve seen all day!
Nik Cooper
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 10:40 PMIt doesn’t work here! I don’t see the ‘Insert coin’ button… just the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button =[:
fiosron
Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 5:32 AMMy “version” seems to go really , really slow.
It works fine on my Macbook and iPad, except on iPad, it is hard to control the pac-man accurately!
Interesting nevertheless..!
matt
Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 12:36 PMlol, I had that problem to on my PC! until I realized it was because some flash script was using all my memory and cpu… go figure…
on that note: is anyone else having trouble with the prince of persia flash ads on this site? I’m using chrome and I bring up chrome’s task manager to find flash is just constantly allocating more and more memory and using all the cpu.
Brodie Moffat
Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 9:38 PMWork’s perfectly fine for me, Actually something to do at work for roughly 2 minutes.