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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Google Pacman LogoPAC-MAN is a cultural icon whose has the globe for 30 years. Thisofficial PAC-MAN 30th Anniversary site is dedicated to telling thestory of PAC-MAN through his games, gear, and accomplishments.
His through the maze of infamy is far from over! Be sure to check inas the story is told that is distinctly PAC-MAN, The interactive doodle— a first for Google — is the brainchild of senior user designer MarcinWichary, whose earliest exposure to Pac-Man came at age five whiletraveling across his native Poland with his father.
“As a group, we feel like we should do something to make him comeback,” Namco Bandai’s US COO Makoto Iwai told Gamasutra (thanksKotaku). “So, there’s one project that we started working on, and[Yasuhara is] part of it.”
Countdown to the 30th anniversary of the yellow eater and his ghostsfriends: Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde… Wow!! Seems like yesterdaythat my first coin in a Pac Man arcade machine…
To the game, go to google.com/google.co.uk during the next 48 hours(a day longer than usual because – as Google explains – “it’s too coolto keep for just one day) and either press the “Insert Coin” button orjust wait for a few seconds.