Pac-Manhattan

We strongly recommend every city get it's own version of Pac-Manhattan, (Pac-Fresno?). The Sunday New York Times features a Manhattan "big game" — the kind we wrote about last week with the Manchester-based interactive city game, Uncle Roy All Around You — but this is a game we might actually really want to play. New York University students from an Interactive Telecommunications Program created Pac-Manhattan and recently test drove the competition dashing through downtown,
communicating via cell phone. Pac-Man and the various Ghosts update their locations by phone, then a central team plots the player's movements. The resulting screen plays a lot like the original classic. We even like the fun Pac-outfits: Pac-Man's yellow profile jutting out fin-like and the Ghosts own brightly-colored ponchos. What's with the blue ghost though, he looks a little intense (or winded)
doesn't he?