I love the fact that the game is JavaScript and HTML5. I also believe that Pac-Man is also slower while eating dots than when he is not. He could take corners faster though, giving you an opportunity to escape the pursuit. The ghosts were always faster than pac on a straight path. I played pac-man for an unreasonable amount of time back in the day. Something a big odd, though… All of the Pac Man games I’ve played had him at the same speed as the ghosts, but Google’s version makes the ghosts a little faster so they can overtake & eat you. Enjoying retro games doesn’t mean a person’s *good* at them, after all…) Wow, I have to admit that was really cool, and I did a lot better than I normally do playing anything using the keyboard arrows! (Not to say I did well I just didn’t die repeatedly on the first level. Really ear-splitting beeps too, since I had my earphones in while using my netbook at a cafe today. All you hear are the sounds and they stay on until you disable the add-on. Turns out that when you have the common “Cool Previews” add-on in Firefox, combined with the default Firefoxified Google homepage, the game still loads, but you don’t see the Pac-ified logo. While I certainly appreciate the sentiment behind it, I was unfortunately one of those who experienced not a jolly game of Pac-Man when I loaded up Firefox earlier, but a frightening array of bleeps and boops that followed me to every site I visited until I looked up the problem and figured out what happened. Pinging is currently not allowed.ġ1 Responses to “The Playable Pac-Man Google Logo” You can skip to the end and leave a response. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Friday, May 21st, 2010 at 10:13 am and is filed under Gaming History, News & Current Events, Retrogaming. I haven’t had to time to dig into it yet. If anyone figures out how to save a playable version of the game, let me know. Wait a few seconds and the page will reload with a hybrid JavaScript/Flash application (it uses Flash for sound) that brings the Google logo to life. When you first go to Google, you’ll see a static image. They did an excellent job, complete with authentic graphics, sounds, and scoring. In honor of Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary, Google has created its most amazing Google Doodle yet: a playable browser-based version of Pac-Man in the usual Google logo space.
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