Google's homepage goes amazing to celebrate Pac-Man's 30th anniversary
By Darren Murph 
posted May 21st 2010 11:57AM
posted May 21st 2010 11:57AM
posted May 21st 2010 11:57AM
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I love google!
@Drew3739
Made my morning :D That's why I have Google as my home page, for little treats like this!
@Drew3739 And I love too. Made my work exciting today! Made me a kid again
@Drew3739
Pure win!
@Drew3739 This seriously made me change my default search to Bing. Who the hell makes audio defaulted to on on web pages? The last thing I need blasting over my iTunes is pacman at 10x the volume.
@Drew3739
Google has just took an immeasurable level in badass.
@Drew3739 They even made playable... This goes beyond awesome.
@dtonnessen
It doesnt play when you go to google. Don't push insert coin and get back to work.
@dtonnessen
best be trollin'
@Drew3739
Me too. Now there's a company that knows how to do things right
I'm so rusted at pac-man. Lost at level 2 =3=;
@Drew3739
Wow. Such a treat. A well deserved tribute delivered in style. Thank You, Google. Only you could do it.
@Drew3739
Agreed. Full of pac win!
@Drew3739
Actually it seems to play on it's own sometimes. It's sweet as hell though.
@dtonnessen
Wow.. who took a dump in your Cheerios? It's Pac-Man dude!
@Drew3739
I sent a tip for this to engadget and they didn't thank me :(
@Mr Blue
I like the Doodle voting as well. Let's see, what should be next.....
@Drew3739
Can't wait for the Crysis 10 year anniversary homepage in 2017
@skyblaze
You will need the Radeon HD 9870 for that... on CrossFire =).
@MegaJapan
lol, true that... but hopefully by 2017 our WATCHES can play Crysis
@dtonnessen
haha you use itunes, poor fool :)
@Apple Google Microsoft Because no one else uses Google that would see this...
@dtonnessen Why don't you just turn the volume of Firefox down? You know, click on the volume button in the tray, click, "show mixer" --
Oh right, I forgot, Apple doesn't have a Sensible Feature department. Never mind.
For those that are interested, here it is running on my iPod touch, Nexus One and Archos 5 Internet Tablet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBIwPX2p74I
Of course the Nexus One runs it best. :P (Pacman music added for Pac effect!)
@Drew3739 I can even play it on my iPhone & iPod touch this cool
@Drew3739 post high scores guys!
@kamikazeshrimpy
That's a total win... Played it once. Scored 22650.
@Drew3739
Almost makes you forget all of the creepy things they're able to do these days.
But no, this is still beyond awesome.
You mean you don't need Flash to play online games?
What's crazy is that it's playable on the iPhone. This is a slap in apple's face.
@Drew3739 omg i thought it was flash. is this HTML5?
@Drew3739 This reminded me of the good ole days. Waiting for super mario! A sidenote, you can actually play Pacman and other Snes Games on Chrome browser as well. http://j.mp/play-games-with-chrome-browser
@ihve2cuties and here I thought Google was the head cheerleader of the "We Love Flash" squad.
and yet showing the PacLove to everyone was deemed more important than taking a stand on the big war.
@Drew3739 That's why I love Google, a company which loves people and aims to provide complete web-related services for the masses.
@Drew3739 Funny thing is that this little interactive doodle probably lowered the productivity of the entire globe. I wonder if it could be measured how much less work was done because of this.
This is by far the coolest thing I've seen in a while! Way to go Google!
@Drew3739
google gets it right every time!. i spent a good solid hour playing multiplayer in physics class :D
I totally put in my Rush mix tape and grabbed a 2 liter bottle of Dr. Pepper.
@Jack
RIP General Colin Pacman.
@andthemaniam
Tend to the widow Pacman
@Jack
Loving the futurama quotes.
@Jack
Dr. Pepper ...gosh...I must go back to the supermarket !
It would be so much more epic were it playable.
@ttsgeb
It is playable...
@ttsgeb It is...
@ttsgeb Try clicking the "Insert Coin" button.
@mm
They just HAD to hide it where I'm used to feeling lucky :( I feel like a moron now.
@Drew3739 I scored 3200
@ttsgeb
But you have to admit, they didn't hide it pretty well. ;-)
@mm
I double clicked it, and got to play multiplayer by myself... that was weird...