(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. '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. 'Grrr - my 84 year old husband screwed up his computer trying to get rid of this mess,' writes Yamahamama4. 'The noise in the background follows me through every website! I don't wanna play it anymore!!' It is a classic that is still popular among friends to play. (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. Pacman 30th Anniversary is a video game that debuted in 1980 and has never been forgotten. 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. 'Reporting from South Africa,' writes Monitor reader Thuto. Reading through the 50-plus comments left below our Friday story, seems we were right. There is a maximum score of 3,333,360 points possible in the Pac-30th Man’s Anniversary game. Simply, click on the PAC-MAN Play button to begin playing the game’s first level. Pac-Man 30th Anniversary uses the same doodle as this one. 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 search results will then display the PAC-MAN Doodle right at the top. Google had a big surprise yesterday: A fully playable Pac-Man 30th anniversary game built into its homepage. But you can keep playing the game for free. Update: Pac-Man has left Google's homepage.

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