To commemorate Pac Man’s 30 year anniversary, Google has not only made a Pac Man-themed Google logo, but it’s playable, and shockingly included the Pac Man theme music, which startled, but ultimately delighted, my officemates and me this morning. If you press the insert coin button, Ms. Pac Man joins the party. I do hope, however, that Google refrains from including theme music on its homepage in the future.
I
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Companyyeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah !!!
Edited 2010-05-21 15:28 UTC
that some LA-LA monkey is going to try and collect royalties from me for even looking at that?
Also, I fail at Google Pac-Man =(
I already loved the company but as we all know, it’s the little gestures that count.
The homage is very touching and I wouldn’t be surprised if it earned even more sympathy to Google.
We are used to the logo being themed for events like Xmas, the Olympics, the birth date of famous composers, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of something played on the page, whether animation, music or game. Am I mistaken?
After my previous comment, I played the game on google.fr… I failed (not worth mentioning), and after the game was over, the results for a search on “30~A¨me anniversaire de PAC-MAN” (30th birthday of Pac Man) was automatically displayed. One of the search results read “Les entreprises n’aiment pas Google aujourd’hui” (companies don’t like Google today). I didn’t even think of that! Maybe because today is a day off for me
They should have added “-google” to the search query.
Now basically every single hit is a news article linking back to Google.
Their PageRank is gonna fly!
There was a OS X clone at some point where image, video, lab and all that was in a dock with zoom effect and all that, but Apple did send a DCMA pull request, and it was granted. It was the years after they went after dock clone for Windows.
On Mac OS X with Firefox 3.6.4, Safari, nor Chromium will play the doodle pacman game. All I see is a clickable Image which directs me to the Pacman 30th blah blah search.
This is supposed to be playable from the main Google page, no?
I becomes playable after a short while…at least for me
I’ve got it open in 3 browsers concurrently, and been waiting longer than I should have. None are starting, and I don’t see a “Insert Coin” button at all.
Click on Pac-Man himself.
Works fine on Safari (4.05)/OS X here – both Pacman and Ms. Pacman.
Click ‘insert coin’ twice.
Get a friend on WASD while you rock the arrow keys.
Prepare for the nostalgia for cursing at your friend as they lose your life for the third time in the row.
Get disappointed at the lack of a high-score table.
Google is my default home page in my browser. I don’t mind it playing for a bit, but it never stops. There is no stop button and if I use NoScript to stop it, it affects my use of other google products. They really should have had a stop button or used a separate script that we could control with NoScript.
You can stop it with the little speaker symbol on the left.
I think it was a stupid idea for Google to put sound on by default.
Not “stupid”. I wouldn’t go that far. But true, they should have disabled the sound by default.
Unfortunately, Google is causing a lot of support calls and extra hassle and costs for IT help desks today because there are many users that are shocked by the sound when they open their browsers. They don’t recognize the sound and think it’s a virus.
Back to the “fun” of answering needless phone calls and help emails…
Tip: get another job.
Maybe those companies should hire smarter people.
That’s it, I’m quitting computers forever.
Last week, my computer cup holder suddenly closed and spilled my coffee on the floor.
Earlier this week the Logitech foot-pedal stopped working when it got too much carpet fiber in the little ball.
And now, I just opened up my Facebook program, and when it went to the facebook startup screen (where I type in Facebook in the box below the google sign), and all of the sudden the google sign is replaced by a wierd maze and my computer started singing to me.
That’s it, no more computers for me, it’s back to the USA today, People Magazine and chatting at the beauty shop.
You know what’s the real reason behind this?
Google tries to drive people away from Firefox:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/677839
Works for me in Firefox
Ditto here.
Is that it’s not flash!
That’s the trouble with HTML 5. Normally my flashblock plugin stops crap like this.
/TROLL
Now we need an HTML5-block plugin