(Have you seen all of the "Easter eggs" littered across Google's many websites?) Nonetheless, Pac-Man got reader Lea Kim thinking: "Hmm. Please do stuff like this again, just incorporate a mute button :)"ĭon't expect to see many future Google Doodles quite like this one. I can't do anything else with sound because the game sound rides overtop of everything on every site that I go to. "It just sucks that the sound from the game stays on even when you leave the Google page. Monitor reader Lisa enjoys the creativity of incorporating Pac-Man into Google's logo, just not the noise. "Grrr - my 84 year old husband screwed up his computer trying to get rid of this mess," writes Yamahamama4. "The noise in the background follows me through every website! I don't wanna play it anymore!!" (And have you tried playing two-player?) But there is another sizable bloc of readers that wish Pac-Man would hurry off-screen and never come back. A decent percentage of commenters share similar anecdotes. "Office productivity down by 60%, bandwidth usage down by 80%, only page visited, Thuto is probably fudging those numbers a little, but his point is clear. "Reporting from South Africa," writes Monitor reader Thuto. Reading through the 50-plus comments left below our Friday story, seems we were right. Here at the Monitor, we joked that this clever birthday present to a true arcade classic would result in hundreds of thousands of lost man-hours as office productivity ground to a halt. Google had a big surprise yesterday: A fully playable Pac-Man 30th anniversary game built into its homepage. But you can keep playing the game for free. distributor of the original "Pac-Man," with Otto giving way to a feminized Pac sprite and pastel color schemes.Ĭall Star online editor Channing King at (317) 444-8073.Update: Pac-Man has left Google's homepage. Pac-Man" was created by MIT students operating under the name General Computer Corp. They designed a modification board that fit on top of the original "Pac-Man" arcade board to change the graphics, sounds and gameplay, to sell to arcade operators who wanted to extend the life of their arcade machines. Originally featuring the title character "Crazy Otto," the board was bought and reproduced by Midway Games, the U.S. While the rest of the games were developed internally by Namco (now Bandai Namco), "Ms. Pac-Man" has had a slightly uncomfortable position in the Pac world.
Unlike both of its Maps celebrations, the Doodle allowed simultaneous multiplayer, with Player One controlling Pac with the arrow keys on the keyboard, and Player Two controlling Ms. More famously, Google put a playable Doodle celebrating Pac-Man's 30th anniversary back in 2010.
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