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World’s Biggest Pacman Is Australian-Made Time-Wasting Brilliance

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9:53AM April 13, 2011 | Nick Broughall

At Microsoft’s MIX11 developer event, Namco Bandai and Microsoft unveiled the world’s biggest Pacman game, with the ability to create your own maze using HTML5. More »


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The Tabletop Arcade Receives A 21st Century Makeover

9:20AM February 22, 2011 | Adrian Covert

This isn’t the same tabletop Pac Man game you played as a kid in pizza parlors. No, this one has been been updated with a more modern screen and a futuristic-looking-exterior. But the gameplay is strictly retro: Pac Man, Donkey Kong Junior, Dig Dug, 1942, Galaga and 55 other classic arcade games can be found on this thing. That said, $US3500 for a bunch of 30 year old games in a fancy looking shell seems like a lot. [Arcade Tables via Uncrate] More »


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This Illusion Poster Brings Pacman Into Meatspace

12:40AM February 18, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

Starring everyone’s favourite little yellow-circle-minus-a-wedge, the latest mind-melter from YouTube illusion wizard Brusspup changes perspective depending on where you’re standing. It’s even got the ghosts all spooked out. More »


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A Pac-Man You Have To Hand Crank To Make It Chomp

2:20PM February 10, 2011 | Casey Chan

The Pactuator: a clockwork Pac-Man from Jonathan M. Guberman on Vimeo.

What do you get when you make the classic Pac-Man fully mechanical? A Pac-Man that chomps only when you hand crank its gears. In other words: awesomeness. Just watch. The hand-cranked, mechanical Pac-Man, called Pactuator, is actually part of a bigger, much loftier project: a playable, mechanical Pac-Man cabinet, called ‘Pac Machina.’ I can’t wait for that. [Up, Not North via BoingBoing] More »


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An Appropriate Solution To Australia’s Election Woes

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12:00PM September 3, 2010 | Alex Kidman

All we need is a bunch of twenty cent pieces and a voting machine. More »


Pixels On Fire

1:20PM June 16, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/EG127HdhWZQ&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":412,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true} ); Two weeks, a lot of candles, plenty of patience, and some love for video games resulted in this incredible pixel-art animation. Watch it and the young pyromaniac in you will giggle. More »


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The New Google Doodle Is A FREAKING GAME OF PAC-MAN

12:58AM May 22, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

This weekend’s Google doodle, commemorating the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, takes the whole idea of the Google doodle to the next level. Actually, it just takes it to the first level – the banner’s a playable, 256-level Pac-Man game More »


Waze Turn-By-Turn App Turns Your Car Into A 1,300kg Pac-Man

4:02AM November 26, 2009 | John Herrman

Free, crowd-sourced turn-by-turn app Waze might not navigate quite as well as the Navigons and Telenavs of the world, but it’s got one killer feature that they don’t: cherries, to chomp with your car. More »


Pac-Man Calls the Ghostbusters, Again

9:00AM March 20, 2009 | Mark Wilson

Two weeks ago, we spotted a t-shirt in which Pac-Man decided to use Ghostbusters technology to spook those ghosts once and for all. Today, he does it again.

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Pac-Man Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts

12:00PM March 7, 2009 | Mark Wilson

The mash-up was there all along, staring us in the face. Yet over the billions of years life has taken to evolve, it’s just now that we’re uniting Pac-Man and Ghostbusters in one t-shirt.

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