Google Pacman: A Disgusting Display of Ghost Slaughter and Pill Consumption

You probably came here to kill some time. So when you're done reading each and every post here, you should check out Google's Homepage PAC-MAN game. If you've been to google.com today, you may have seen it and not realized it's a playable game. It is.This is Google's way of...

By Michael J. Mooney

May 21, 2010

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You probably came here to kill some time. So when you're done reading each and every post here, you should check out Google's Homepage PAC-MAN game. If you've been to google.com today, you may have seen it and not realized it's a playable game. It is.

This is Google's way of

celebrating the 30th anniversary of the classic arcade game.

The game went up at 11 a.m. ET today (midnight in Japan) and will be there for 48 hours.

So if you hear someone in a cubicle near yours yelling something like "Get Some, you fucking ghosts!" and then screaming in agony, that person has probably already discovered the game. And perhaps he's been watching too much of The Pacific.

Bonus: Aphex Twin/Power Pill's remix of the Pacman theme.

Michael J. Mooney

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