Google celebrates Pac-Man 30th anniversary
The usual Google logo has been replaced by a customized playable version of the popular 1980s video game, in which small yellow Pac-Men must travel around a maze, trying to avoid the ghosts.
Users can still search through the home page, but the ones who want to play the game need to click on the “Insert Coin” button. Clicking the button twice changes the mode into a two-player game, with one player taking the role of Miss Pac-Man, being able to control her progress using W,A,S and D.
Google said the launch of Pac-Man marked “a significant moment in popular culture”, and said that web users had 48 hours to “re-live the nostalgia” of the 1980s by playing the game on the Google site.
“To pay the homage that Pac-Man deserves as a ground-breaking innovation in the gaming world, Google equipped the doodle with many unique characteristics from the original Pac-Man game,” said a Google spokesman.
“From preserving the distinct personalities of the ghosts Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, to re-creating programming bugs from the original game, like a ‘kill screen’ on level 256, Marcin Wichary, a senior user experience designer at Google, and our resident Google doodler, Ryan Germick, remained as faithful to the spirit of Pac-Man as possible.”
This being the first time Google has ever included sound or made a logo playable demonstrates just how big of an impact Pac-Man has made.
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