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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@ttsgeb If you double-click insert coin you can play ms pac man with WASD
@mm Push it twice and Mrs Pac man shows up for some co-op pacing.
@ttsgeb
holy crap, playing the 2 player version makes the game 100x better!!
if your good it allows for some serious pac man ass-kicking
BEST GOOGLE HOMEPAGE EVER!
@Sieg
What a way to pay tribute to a phenomenon so many of us grew knowing. I love Google for its creativity!!
dats hot
For extra challenge, try navigating using the mouse.
@mm
That's how I discovered it was playable actually. I tried clicking it to follow it through, and SURPRISE Pac-Man MOVED!
I'm love you Google.
@BigJayDogg3 I didn't realize it wasn't an animated gif until I tried to scroll the page by tapping and dragging on my G1's screen, and PacMan moved instead! Google gets extra marks for making it Android-compatible, in my book.
@mm no, for extra challenge try and do co-op with just you playing both people, kinda getting good at it
@Sleet01 Works the same with the iPhone.
Cool! If you click "insert coin" next to the google search button you can play 2 player! Like...at the same time. That blows my mind man.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to try and master the ways of one-man co-op.
Use the WASD keys to control Ms Pacman, for those of you who haven't figured that out.
Google never dissapoints.
It works on the iPhone too.
@Jack
Good thing they didn't use Flash...
@BigJayDogg3
I have no Sound on my iPad. The Code says they use Flash for the Sound. I guess youre wrong.
@Jack would be funny to see pacman in flash ;)
but noo google isn't evil :/
HTML5?
@GeneralThade All Javascript.
@GeneralThade and you thought it was HTML5. haha.
@DarrenMurph I thinks it is all HTML5.... there's not any flash player there.... how is the sound made if not?
@johnvillar
http://www.javascripter.net/faq/sound/play.htm
@BigJayDogg3 Check the source, they use Flash in an iframe for the sound.
@johnvillar
view page source, crtl+f search java. it's a java srcript
@GeneralThade HTML5 can't do that yet. Is that what your God Steve Jobs told you? Google is open-minded so that's why Google Pacman will work on any browser unlike Apple which only makes their stuff work on their own browser. I think I'm falling in love with Google once again.
By the way you can also play this on your iPhone using the "classic Google" feature.
sweet!
I was wondering why Google was infested with dots!!
Haha, I noticed this like an hour ago.
Come on people, I dare you play this in your iPhone/iPad :D.
@MegaJapan
I wonder if it's easy to control...
@MegaJapan
I set Skyfire on my Nexus to load the page as an iPhone.. apparently you just swipe in the direction you wanna go... I found it way too tough, though XP
@skyblaze
I just tried on my WinMo's Skyfire... I give up =.=;
@skyblaze
You know it works in the native Android browser without the iPhone agent right?
@MegaJapan
That makes two of us. Switching back to PC!
@Tes
I JUST figured that out. It took forever to load in the default browser for some reason so I switched to Skyfire (not so good connection at my cube)
@MegaJapan Just did.(played it on iPad) It works well, using the swipe method. :D
This is so fun :D
Even if it is the same level over and over again lol
WOOT!! It works on the iPhone too :)
@RCDheliracer
Yep, it's not FLASH!
Would've been even cooler if the cherry was an apple.
@bphatness and if it was flash based
@k7of9
i get ur joke, but its plainly not funny
+1 Google
Ah how nostalgic. But I want to be able to make poor-skills excuses about a sticky joystick not working properly like in the old arcade cabinet days!
Cutscenes are all intact, and ghost have their original "personalities". Super cool.
Aaargh! Why did the 30th anniversary of Pac Man have to be today? I have AS Level exams to revise for, and I can't stop playing the bloody game!
keep pressing the insert coin button and you'll get Ms Pac-Man 2p mode
use A-W-S-D keys to control her
@petah
Control her? Does that mean I can command her to make me a steak dinner? Or other things....
Hell yes!!!
Goin for the pretzel!