What they really mean is, click once to the left of the Pacman if you want it to go left, to its right if you want it to go right, etc. Mouse: click "on the maze", Google said.Makes it easier that you don't have to time it precisely to tap the exact moment it reaches the junction! if it's going right and you want it to go up next, you can tap the up arrow while it's still moving right and it'll take the next up, even though it's not reached the junction at the point when you tapped the up key. Tip: you can tap the key for the next direction in advance, e.g.Tip: just tap once the arrow key for the direction you want it to go you don't have to keep holding the key down.(You're supposed to be able to wait a few seconds and it'll start, but I found that a bit erratic.)* To start playing - click "Insert Coin". Your score ratchets up in the numbers top left. More little fruits on the right stack up when you've won games (you start with one for free). There are "back doors" on the left and right, run through those and you'll come out the other side. Eat up all the dots, you get to start a new game (but with no extra lives, just the ones you had left before). For extra points eat (run over) the blinking fruit etc that appears in the middle sometimes. Sometimes the blue monsters flash to warn you that they're going to change back to their original colours, when they can eat you again. Eat a blinking pink dot and the monsters turn blue, and while they're blue they can't eat you but you can eat them instead (and get points for that), and their little eyes fly back to the central box to be reincarnated another time. In brief, eat up all the dots before you get eaten by the coloured monsters - some move faster than others, watch out for the red and pink ones! You have 3 lives.For those who've never played it before (and yes they do exist, like the friend whose question to me triggered this blog post), see the rules on game play in Wikipedia.The comments on his video typify a certain approach to technology which I feel is deplorable - rant follows at the end. I confess that like this guy I was initially stumped about how to play it as I tried dragging it with the mouse at first. Not so good news for the world's productivity, according to the BBC! You can carry on playing it here (or click the image above). You know, without actually needing any quarters.Tweet It's excellent news that Google decided to keep their Pacman game going. And we can only hope you find using Google at least a quarter as enjoyable as eating dots and chasing ghosts. There’s a light-hearted, human touch to both of them. They’re both deceptively straightforward, carefully hiding their complexity under the hood. PAC-MAN seems like a natural fit for the Google homepage. PAC-MAN joins the party and you can play together with someone else (PAC-MAN is controlled with arrow keys or by clicking on the maze, Ms. We also added a little easter egg: if you throw in another coin, Ms. Google doodler Ryan Germick and I made sure to include PAC-MAN’s original game logic, graphics and sounds, bring back ghosts’ individual personalities, and even recreate original bugs from this 1980’s masterpiece. To play the game, go to during the next 48 hours (because it’s too cool to keep for just one day) and either press the “Insert Coin” button or just wait for a few seconds. Today, on PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday, you can rediscover some of your 8-bit memories-or meet PAC-MAN for the first time-through our first-ever playable Google doodle. During the heyday of space shooters, Tōru Iwatani’s creation stood out as one of the first video games aimed at a broader audience, with a cute story of pizza-shaped character gobbling dots in a maze, colorful (literally!) characters, friendly design, very little violence and everlasting fun. One of my favorites was PAC-MAN, whose popularity transcended the geopolitical barriers of that time. For me, that meant summer trips through Poland’s coastal cities with their seasonal arcade parlors peeking inside cabinets to learn programming and engineering secrets and-of course-free games! When I was growing up, my dad had the best job I could possibly imagine: he was an arcade game and pinball technician.
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