There Is Playable Pac-Man In Your Google Logo

Google has a proud tradition of modifying their logo image to commemorate special occasions, but for the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, they’ve gone from image manipulation to game creation.

Pac-Man was released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Back then you’d regularly find arcades packed with players eager to guide the pizza-faced hero through his mazes. Nowadays you can play Pac-Man on just about everything, including the Google logo.

The mini version of Pac-Man has all the bells and whistles of the original game, though the maze has undergone a few changes of course, including the addition of a fifth power pellet in the G.

You can even team up with a friend by hitting the “Insert Coin” button a second time, busting ghosts with the aid of Ms. Pac-Man!

This could be the best Google logo manipulation ever created. Check it out for yourself!

And no, I’m not giving you a link. Google it.

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(5 Comments)
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    PlasmaDavid

    Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 1:58 PM

    Last night I booted up FF and it started making pacman sounds. A confused 10 minutes later someone relayed via facebook it was 30 years, so I went to google and found this.

    When I started playing it on google it was a SECOND set of sound effects. Maybe it was magically piped through my searchbar somehow? Regardless, it creeped the hell out of me and isn’t happening this morning.

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    Roddy McNeill

    Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 2:06 PM

    Click the Insert Coin twice and you get a two player with Ms Pacman…

    WASD are the keys for the Ms.

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    James Shen

    Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 3:48 PM

    Hahaha. Love it! :D

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    MrTaco

    Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 5:16 PM

    Wait, it has sound effects too? Why doesn’t mine?

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    Krayance

    Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 10:31 PM

    “And no, I’m not giving you a link. Google it.”

    Google’s so advanced, the search result came back before I searched :P

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