Google Logo a PAC-MAN Playable Game - 30th Anniversary on May 21st, 2010 [True HD]

The Google Search Logo on May 20th 2010 depicted a PAC-MAN Game, but the logo actually turned out to be a LIVE Playable PAC-MAN Game (programmed in Java).

One of the google search buttons where transformed into saying [Insert Coin], and clicking it would start playing the famous Pac-Man Jingle and start the game.

Clicking another time on [Insert Coin] would start a 2-up game, featuring Ms Pacman.

Mr Pacman would be controlled by the arrow keys, and Ms Pacman by ASDW keys. You have to develop a split personallity to be able to control Mr & Ms Pacman successfully at the same time. ;-)

An odd thing that happened while Pacman had kidnapped the Google logo, was that Pacman seemingly "ate" up some of the letters of the keyboard, as evidenced in the video. The missing letters where "w + a + s + d".

Pac-Man is a classical Arcade Game published by Namco Bandai Games Inc and was first released in Japan on May 22, 1980.

The game was developed primarily by a young Namco employee Tōru Iwatani, over a year, beginning in April 1979, employing a nine-man team. The original title was pronounced pakku-man (パックマン?) and was inspired by the Japanese onomatopoeic phrase paku-paku taberu (パクパク食べる?), where paku-paku describes (the sound of) the mouth movement when widely opened and then closed in succession.

Although it is often cited that the character's shape was inspired by a pizza missing a slice, he admitted in a 1986 interview that it was a half-truth and the character design also came from simplifying and rounding out the Japanese character for mouth, kuchi (口) as well as the basic concept of eating. Iwatani's efforts to appeal to a wider audience—beyond the typical demographics of young boys and teenagers—eventually led him to add elements of a maze. The result was a game he named Puck Man.

When first launched in Japan by Namco in 1980, the game received a lukewarm response, as Space Invaders and other similar games were more popular at the time.

Later that year, the game was picked up for manufacture in the United States by Bally division Midway, under the altered title Pac-Man. American audiences welcomed a breakaway from conventions set by Space Invaders, which resulted in unprecedented popularity and revenue that rivaled its successful predecessor, as even Iwatani was impressed with U.S. sales. The game soon became a worldwide phenomenon within the video game industry, resulting in numerous sequels and merchandising tie-ins. Pac-Man's success bred imitation, and an entire genre of maze-chase video games soon emerged.

Visit Pac-Man at Namco here:


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