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PacManhattan Relocates Classic Game To New York Streets

Posted by michael on from the actually-more-frogger-than-anything-else,-given-the-traffic dept.

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."

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  1. Key by JustinXB · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do I get the gold key?

  2. Re:Interesting by Black_Logic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hmm.. I'm not so sure. The rules said that the pac man's general knows everyones position. Does each player (pac man and all ghosts) all have to report to the pac man's general. i.e. Each ghost is making 5 calls on each corner? The rule's page wasn't clear about what seems like the most interesting part of the game.

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  3. Here is a .mov file of a ghost trying to catch him by smnoel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    mov

  4. Puck-Man by MisterLawyer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pac-Man was originally called Puck-Man, until a shrewd Namco employee noticed the opportunity for kids to scrape at the logo, creating a much ruder-sounding game.

  5. police? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Also, a guy dressed in yellow foam being vigorously chased by other guys dressed in foam is likely to attract attention, probably by the police.

    Really? why? I must admit that I have never been to Manhattan or America for that matter. You must have lots of police on the street if they have time for that. I never see any police on foot in downtown Copenhagen. Racing around in their cars, es, but caring the slightest bit about on foot, no. To me it just sounds strange why they should care about those goofballs, but I guess it is a different mentality all together

  6. Big Urban Game in Minneapolis by eltoyoboyo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Folks at the University of Minnesota had a slightly different concept: They used gigantic red, yellow, and blue inflatable game pieces using Minneapolis streets as a game board. It was the Big Urban Game played in September 2003. In case you are wondering, blue won.

    The home page of the B.U.G.

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  7. Re:OT -- your sig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    He knows that already. Several other people have offered this explanation to him over the past several months (at least). Yet he refuses to change his sig. Why do you think that is?

  8. Stanford Students are Wackier by zeromemory · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While we're on the topic of real-life PacMan,

    A Cross-Dressing Stanford Ms. Pacman

    Berkeley students can never resist the temptation of poking fun at the 'other school'...

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