Google Raises Bar with Pac-Man Doodle

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By Talib Qizilbash 22 May 2010 3 Comments

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A screenshot of Google's playable doodle tribute to Pacman's 30th birthday.

Google has bested themselves.

The web search giant has a great creative history of changing their logo (also known as the Google doodle) on the google.com homepage to reflect a special day or occasion. In the past they have transformed their logo into amazing doodles commemorating Halloween, Christmas and the Olympic Games, to name just a few. This year they have already produced dozens (many of which are regional) including ones for Father’s Day, the opening of the World Expo in Shanghai and a five-part series for Hans Christian Andersen’s 205th Birthday.

Google has gone to another level with their latest doodle, creating a playable Pac-Man game where the game maze incorporates the Google logo. The Pac-Man doodle-game, created for the 30th anniversary of the classic video game, will eventually start by itself. Of course, traditionalists can click the “Insert Coin” button to the right of the search button.

Navigate with your arrow/directional keys and enjoy all the ambulance-siren-ringing sound effects.

So if you are struggling for something to do without Facebook (in case you are already bored interacting with people face-to-face) here’s a great time-waster and an easy way to continue the special connection with the warm glow of your monitor in these dark days of banning.

Check out some doodles from this year below, or visit Google to see their doodle archives.

A Father's Day doodle.

A doodle to celebrate Hans Christian Andersen's Birthday.

An April Fool's Day doodle.

Talib Qizilbash has been freelance writing since 2003. He joined Newsline in 2006, working as both a writer and editor, and has won a national APNS award for his writing. He is currently the magazine’s online editor. Find him on twitter @tqizilbash.

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Jeddy said:

The real reason why Facebook was banned is because several people in Pakistan used it to make fun of President Zardar strictly forbidden. Someone made an entire game of many times he could be knocked out. Other people had an entire forum of jokes. There were so many items
People were venting frustration. It can only stand to reason that when the President found about it, he wanted to have Facebook banned because he was being ridiculed by everyone who used Facebook in Pakistan, which he could not tolerate. The issue has nothing to do with religion. No one even knows where to find the blasphemous content because Facebook is filled with so much information and so many applications, it would be like searching for a needle in a haystack.

# 22 May 2010 at 11:51 pm