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PacManhattan Relocates Classic Game To New York Streets
Matt Slaybaugh writes "Some classmates of mine have developed a 'large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980's video game sensation Pac-Man.' One player dresses up as Pac-Man and tries to cover the full Greenwich Village grid, while 4 others dressed as Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde try to catch him. Everyone reports their positions to their respective generals, who monitor progress on a central control board. I can't wait for the real-world implementation of Donkey Kong."
I'll gladly hurl barrels at the submitter... or anyone, really.
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It's funny, laugh!
How are the ghosts gonna eat the pacman? Cannibals
Happy Hacking!!!
> while 4 others dressed as Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde try to catch him.
What happened to Tinkie-Winkie?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I can't wait for them to go through the Washington Heights and Bronx 'hoods and play with the homies there...
I am defenseless. Use your button. Mod me down with all of your hatred.
Just imagine dodging taxis...
If I see PacMan running arounf, and call out to the ghosts, is that cheating: ;)
In other news: Al Qaeda members intercepted and arrested today downtown New York, disguised as yellow PacMen. They admitted using a new kind of simulator to train for their failed terrorist attack.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
even more guys who will never, ever get laid...
Why don't you embrace your slashbotness instead of living in a dreamworld?
Somehow, looking at the pictures, I imagine the guy who plays PacMan has a hard time getting dates.
Scene bar:
Guy: "So, baby, what's your sign?"
Women: "What's that big thing sticking out of your chest?"
Guy: "Oh this? Yellow foam. There's one in the back too."
Women: "What's it for for? Do you use it erotically?"
Guy: "Heck no. It's for playing a real-life version of a videogame from the 80s."
*Total silence*
Power Pellets sold by shady characters in dark alleys?
Wakka Wakka Wakka
This is the sig that says NI (again)
But if you find a rotten apple lying in the middle of the street are you supposed to eat it?
Diego
diegoT
Clearly Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde must be pimps and Pacman is a bitch who outta pocket.
why run from Vincenzo?
until they all have GPS's, and I can watch a satellite map of them running around. GET TO WORK
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
when they decide to scale Halo to real life in NYC...if you think the traffic problems there are already bad, wait 'till there's a Warthog or two....
I wonder if we can ever simulate this on a computer. That would save a lot of time, money and effort.
Well, not Pacman, but my friends and I managed to recreate "Video Pool" in the meatspace. We also sucessfully played Tapper, and "Nick Faldo's golf".
I also know a guy who was really ahead of his time, and was playing GTA almost every night...
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
...real life GTA vice city?
omg wallhack!
Yes, "The Donald". With the bad comb-over.
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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Apparently they are having some trouble finding the MAME dump of Pac Man.
-R
All you need is a baseball bat, a good pair of shoes and the fun is guaranteed.
Diego
diegoT
"People of Earth, I am Lrrr of the planet Nintendu 64. Tremble in fear at our three different kinds of ships!" -- Futurama, "Anthology of Interest II"
of Half-life. Or Halo. Splinter Cell. Even America's Army
oh wait...
and a movie to go along with it too!
I guess they don't sell beer in NYC anymore.
The project website is here where it mentions the top score is 20,000 so far . . . that's a lot of city blocks to have run - even if you assume they maximized each power pellet (4*(200+400+800+1600)), that leaves 8000 points, and at 30 points per block, that's 266 blocks . . . I guess they beat the board a couple times?
Now if they would only make SimCity a real life game... that would be very intresting to play.
We could gather some geeks and try to convince people to run Linux, and one guy would be Bill and would try to get every computer running Windows... er, wait a minute...
Oh, forget it.
Or do they have teleportation pads that send PacMan from the west side of Washington street to the east side of it?
If so, I wanna play it!
(it is called Mario Twins)
Clearly you're not from New York.
These guys are gay and are getting plenty being in Greenwich Village.
In fact, Pac Man is just a metaphor... well I'll let you work it out.
www.bannination.com Two things float to the top he
And don't even ask me about the "real life" Missile Command. Not pretty.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
Once they gonna do a real life version of Grand Theft auto in Manhattan ;)
"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music..."
...and I bet he never forsaw the live-action roleplay version either!
Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Gates M'dna wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Space invaders is easy. Get people to jump off buildings while hurling stones down at you. If you get hit, you lose.
Meanwhile, you throw baseballs at them. If they get hit, it triggers the detonation device.
Only problem I see is if you and they miss completely, and a guy is sent falling to his death.
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What does it mean for a ghost to "eat" Pac-Man?
Kick him in the balls.
What happens if a random pedestrian interferes with the game?
See above.
Wouldn't the fastest runner have a distinct advantage over the other players?
Get a spedometer and a taser and wire it to shock you if you go too fast.
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I applaude the creative ressurrection of a childhood pastime, but I am skeptical of the game being much more than an elaborate "tag, you're it" with costumes.
Which is so disappointing, given the depth and complexity of the original Pacman. Which brilliantly colored ghost chased Pacman up YOUR ass?
JAWSchlech "The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your mistakes." - Despair.com
Pacman and Donkey Kong are good, but the real excitement would be a world-wide tour of Rampage.
~L
Well, we could always slashdot them, then they wouldn't be able to rob our grandmas at all...
" How do I get the gold key?"
I'd like to see him try and convince Mayor Bloomberg to give him the key to the city if he clears enough boards.
Vote for Pedro
Er... the musclebound idiots are getting laid?
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Ah yes, so many things in life seem more worthwhile than having sex when there isn't any sex to be had. Oddly enough, the availability of sex does tend to change ones priorities. Hobbies seem boring, reading a waste of time, and thinking itself an unbearable burden. The smell of one's aftershave takes on an increasing importance. One becomes concerned with the threadcount of one's sheets. Insipid banter becomes engaging.
That having been said, I find myself agreeing with you more than I would like these days. Yes, yes, there really is nothing like a good book on quantum mechanics and reading every post to /.
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and the city doesn't have some space warping ability to send you to the other side if you walk through a certain door.
Heh. Tourist.
I can't wait for the real-world implementation of Donkey Kong
for that all you need is a fire escape, some barrels and a really dumb friend.
This is a sport I could really bet on.
And where the Hell is Ms. Pac-Man?
Thinking about going to NYU? Thinking about hiring someone from there?
Just remember, these guys are getting college credit for this.
(I'm only jesting, I know people who go to NYU...)
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
... this isn't what they had in mind.
Yeah I know what you mean...
I can spend days playing Civilization, the only problem is it kinda gets on the neighbours nerves after a few hours of moaning and groaning things like:
"Ohhh yeah Queen Elizabeth, give it to me baby... I want ALL your cities... yeah, yeah, yeah... Ohhhh GOOOOOD I love the way you move those armies all across Europe. You really turn me on with your superior technology, share it with me please oh please."
I just don't understand why people bother with sex at all.