Title: 30th Anniversary of PAC-MANDate: May 21, 2010
Location: Global
Tags: Pop Culture, Pac-Man, Pacman, Pac Man, maze, ghosts, Video Game, Technology, Interactive
PLAY THE DOODLE
History:Quoted from Marcin Wichary, senior UX designer and developer.
When I was growing up, my dad had the best job I could possibly imagine: he was an arcade game and pinball technician. For me, that meant summer trips through Poland�s coastal cities with their seasonal arcade parlors; peeking inside cabinets to learn programming and engineering secrets; and�of course�free games!
One of my favorites was PAC-MAN, whose popularity transcended the geopolitical barriers of that time. During the heyday of space shooters, Toru Iwatani�s creation stood out as one of the first video games aimed at a broader audience, with a cute story of pizza-shaped character gobbling dots in a maze, colorful (literally!) characters, friendly design, very little violence and everlasting fun.
Today, on PAC-MAN�s 30th birthday, you can rediscover some of your 8-bit memories�or meet PAC-MAN for the first time�through our first-ever playable Google doodle. To play the game, go to google.com during the next 48 hours (because it�s too cool to keep for just one day) and either press the �Insert Coin� button or just wait for a few seconds.
Google doodler Ryan Germick and I made sure to include PAC-MAN�s original game logic, graphics and sounds, bring back ghosts� individual personalities, and even recreate original bugs from this 1980�s masterpiece. We also added a little easter egg: if you throw in another coin, Ms. PAC-MAN joins the party and you can play together with someone else (PAC-MAN is controlled with arrow keys or by clicking on the maze, Ms. PAC-MAN using the WASD keys).
PAC-MAN� & �1980 NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.
PAC-MAN seems like a natural fit for the Google homepage. They�re both deceptively straightforward, carefully hiding their complexity under the hood. There�s a light-hearted, human touch to both of them. And we can only hope you find using Google at least a quarter as enjoyable as eating dots and chasing ghosts. You know, without actually needing any quarters.
Title : Google Doodle 30th Anniversary of PAC-MAN
Description : Title: 30th Anniversary of PAC-MAN Date: May 21, 2010 Location: Global Tags: Pop Culture, Pac-Man, Pacman, Pac Man, maze, ...