How to play Google’s doodle Pac-man
If you’re feeling the itch the play some history today, head along to Google’s search page and play Pacman, which celebrates its 30th birthday today.
Google’s daily doodle today is a playable version of the iconic game.
Here’s how you play it.
* Head over to Google’s search website.
* Hover your mouse over the Pacman doodle until you see the PAC-MAN’s 30th Birthday hint box.
* Double-click on the doodle and the game will come live.
To move Pac-man, use your keyboard arrow keys. The idea of the game is to eat up all the food without getting caught – at least that’s the theory!
To turn the sound off, click on the speaker symbol on the bottom-left of the game screen (important if you’re supposed to be working!)
Your score is displayed vertically down the left-hand side of the game screen.
Go to it!
Pac-man was developed by console games manufacturer Namco and released on May 22, 1980 to eventually become one of the best ever known video games.
[via Techlogg.com]
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hey Darren,
I was reading the bigpond tech news the other week and saw pacman’s 30th birthday. never knew a game so popular among us teens is 30.
the link to google pacman is now
http://www.google.com/pacman
same features apply and it works when you disconnect form the net but obviously wont work when you reboot your pc.
Mark