The original game is still being played and it is the most popular video game ever. Share your praise or pans in the comments below – and check out the Monitor's list of five games that would make better Google doodles than Pac-Man. Pac-Man is a popular video game and has been played for over 30 years. (Have you seen all of the "Easter eggs" littered across Google's many websites?) Nonetheless, Pac-Man got reader Lea Kim thinking: "Hmm. Please do stuff like this again, just incorporate a mute button :)"ĭon't expect to see many future Google Doodles quite like this one. I can't do anything else with sound because the game sound rides overtop of everything on every site that I go to. In keeping with its tradition of celebrating historical events, the Maestro of Search has created a custom 'doodle' to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man. "It just sucks that the sound from the game stays on even when you leave the Google page. Monitor reader Lisa enjoys the creativity of incorporating Pac-Man into Google's logo, just not the noise. If you look back at Pac-Mans history, you will see that this game has eaten up both hard drives and floppy disks over the past 30 years. Its an old game that people still like to play with their friends. "Grrr - my 84 year old husband screwed up his computer trying to get rid of this mess," writes Yamahamama4. Pacman 30th Anniversary is a video game that came out in 1980 and hasnt been taken off the market since. Click on the button I’m Feeling Lucky to see where you can play the doodle game. "The noise in the background follows me through every website! I don't wanna play it anymore!!" How do you play the Pac-Man Google Doodle for the 30th anniversary Google changes its logo for special occasions, but it doesn’t make the logo playable before the Pacman 30 th anniversary. (And have you tried playing two-player?) But there is another sizable bloc of readers that wish Pac-Man would hurry off-screen and never come back. A decent percentage of commenters share similar anecdotes. "Office productivity down by 60%, bandwidth usage down by 80%, only page visited, Thuto is probably fudging those numbers a little, but his point is clear. Pacman 30th Anniversary: Go An Overview It’s hard to believe that it has been three decades since the iconic Pacman game first graced our screens. "Reporting from South Africa," writes Monitor reader Thuto. One question that frequently arises is whether the Pacman 30th Anniversary game can be played. Reading through the 50-plus comments left below our Friday story, seems we were right. Here at the Monitor, we joked that this clever birthday present to a true arcade classic would result in hundreds of thousands of lost man-hours as office productivity ground to a halt. Google had a big surprise yesterday: A fully playable Pac-Man 30th anniversary game built into its homepage. To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Pac-Mans release in arcades, Google created a fully playable Pac-Man Google Doodle. But you can keep playing the game for free. Update: Pac-Man has left Google's homepage.
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