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! Page through the gallery above to see some real-world locations transformed into chaotic Pac-Man insanity.When I was growing up, my dad had the best job I could possibly imagine: he was an arcade game and pinball technician. Plus, there's a bonus level in the mix for those of you who just want to set the highest score possible and clear level after level after level. So we picked five maps from each city where WIRED has an office: five in SF, five in Boston, and five in NYC. We're based in San Francisco, but news editor Emily Dreyfuss does her thing in Boston, and there's a rag-tag crew of editorial types banging on keyboards in New York City. We decided to scan Google Maps for the most mind-bending Pac-Man locations in the WIRED editorial world. You can run the little guy up and down city streets, gobbling up little dots while the ghosts give chase. Doing so lets you play Pac-Man right there in Google Maps, using real locations as your levels. While you're perusing a map in the browser, you can click on a Pac-Man icon in the lower left corner. Today on the Internet, the Google Maps team pushed out one of the greatest, if not the greatest, April Fools' Day easter eggs in history.
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