OT - Today's Google Doodle

[jcb]

No one who wants to get work done and who grew up in the early video game years should visit Google's home page today.

Happy birthday Pac Man!

 

[ImTooExcitedToSleep]

I was just coming over to post a thread entitled "My productivity at work today is horrible, and it's Google's fault".

But you beat me to it....cause I had to finish my game.

 

[FireDancer]

I love it. It is now my favorite Google Doodle ever. And here I though everyone would be too busy with Google I/O to do anything else. I guess the Doodle team (yes, there is an entire department that does nothing but the Google Doodle) didn't get to go.

 

[Sphyrna]

Here's a funny story about how I discovered this. I provide tech support for our office. I'm about to go to lunch when I get a ticket for a user whose computer is making a weird noise when on the internet, but stops when they close the browser. I told my coworkers to hold on, I have to go check this out as I was really curious. So I go to the user's desk and she opens IE and our company's site opens up. After like a minute I hear the Pac-man music!! I was like ***?? Then I noticed it's set to open 2 tabs for her home page, one of them being Google. At first I thought she was using iGoogle and had a Pac-man gadget. When I looked at it again I then noticed the board spelled out Google. We all got a kick out of this at lunch!

After lunch I played. I got to the apple board, 27000 points. Not too bad.

 

[Castaway Kev]

If you click on "Insert Coin" twice, then you can get to a two player mode. Pac-Man uses the arrow keys, and Ms. Pac-Man uses the keys 'a' 's' 'd' and 'w'.

It's fun trying to play two parts at the same time. Give it a try!

 

[drakethib]

I havent been able to figure out how to make it play yet

 

[dpuck1998]

Someone owes me an hour of my life back. I swore off google a while ago, so I don't go there very often anymore. That was pretty sweet though.

I judged a google doodle contest at school, we submitted a handful of doodles for an earth day contest from our MS students. It was pretty cool....none of them won though.

 

[mainegal]

I have two Namco hand held games that plug into the TV. One has Pac Man, the other has Ms. Pac Man.

Time to go play! (this is me playing Pac Man on the TV)

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

Charles Arthur adds: interestingly, as Apple, Google and Adobe war with each other over the importance of Adobe's Flash system, the doodle is written entirely in HTML, CSS and Javascript - Flash isn't required. That means it works on iPhones too...
** Although the sound is in Flash - so that doesn't work on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad. (To move, swipe the way you want to go.) This, as a Guardian colleague points out, is the first time that Flash has made it onto the front page of Google...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/21/pac-man-30th-anniversary-google-doodle

I was using it on my iPhone and couldn't figure it out - I assumed it was Flash until I saw this.

 

[TallyTutter]

Here's a funny story about how I discovered this. I provide tech support for our office. I'm about to go to lunch when I get a ticket for a user whose computer is making a weird noise when on the internet, but stops when they close the browser. I told my coworkers to hold on, I have to go check this out as I was really curious. So I go to the user's desk and she opens IE and our company's site opens up. After like a minute I hear the Pac-man music!! I was like ***?? Then I noticed it's set to open 2 tabs for her home page, one of them being Google. At first I thought she was using iGoogle and had a Pac-man gadget. When I looked at it again I then noticed the board spelled out Google. We all got a kick out of this at lunch!

After lunch I played. I got to the apple board, 27000 points. Not too bad.

Same story here!! I work at the data center for the school district. Finance called over & said when they bring IE up they get "circus music & then sirens". Their supervisor thought they had gotten a virus & was very mad at them! They did not see the humor in it when I told them it was Google!!