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A Playable PAC-MAN On Google Doodle
Kilrah_il and several other readers made sure we noted Google's tribute to PAC-MAN on its 30th anniversary — a playable game implemented in JavaScript. "'To play the game, go to google.com 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.' There is also an Easter egg for those who want to recall one of the first multi-player games, but you'll have to RTFA to find it." This doodle may overshadow the Official PAC-MAN 30th Anniversary Destination.
Insert coin twice to enable multiplayer.
One player is controlled via arrow keys, the other by wasd.
If you have a friend on hand (or some serious ambidextrous skills....) click "Inser Coin" twice and use the WASD keys to control MsPacman!
"...So I hung back and lurked. For 18 months. Can't beat a good old-fashioned lurking."
I'm holding out for Q-Bert.
0 = 1 + e^(Alt something)
I saw this earlier this morning. Obviously, productivity around the globe dropped 30% today.
Google handled approx 88 billion searches in Dec-2009. (88b/31)*2=5.67billion searches in two days. If (conservativly) one tenth of those are work related, that's 567m. If one in ten work related users plays this once for 60 seconds, that's 3.4 billion seconds. 3.4 billion seconds is approximatly 108 person-years worth of productivity. (Which at US federal minimum wage is about 1.6 million dollars). That's a low figure as those who need google to work probably don't earn minimum wage. Now that's power! I personally played for more than 60s....
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I would say they certainly have the most productive to throw us a cool freebie like that. However I still prefer Pac-Man CE (championship edition) on XBLA.
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Is this game too hard to play?
The point is the celebration of a load bearing pillar in gaming history, not the fact that JavaScript was used to do it.
Living With a Nerd
It isn't a banner ad - it isn't advertising a thing.
I bet that most people will say this is the most awesome thing Google has done all year.
Works just fine for me using Firefox 3.6.3 on Win7.
What is it advertising? Nothing, other than perhaps Google. It does, however, let people who have games blocked on a school/corporate network play a game or two of Pac Man.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Exactly. How many people knew Pacman was 30 years old today? Probably not a lot. How many people know about Pacman? Quite a few. It's a fun gesture to educate people how much things have changed, bringing back the nostalgic feeling of playing the game while showing how far we've come, with web searches and the internet in general. I think it spurs some reflection on the subject matter, but thats just my experience.
If you don't like it, don't use it. If my Facebook feed is correct, most everyone loves it. If you don't like it turn down the volume for a single day or use http://www.gamertech.com/googlelite/ or something. Just a plain search box. There, no distracting images or cool JavaScript features there.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
I'm using Firefox 3.6.3 on Slackware 13 and it works just fine.
Easily the coolest Google Doodle of all time.
You know, I thought that at first - I had a frantic co-worker at my desk asking "why is my computer making pac-man noises!" this morning (it had loaded up and started playing in the background).
Then I went over to her desk, looked around for a little bit, figured out it was the Google banner, ate a couple of ghosts, and it was fine.
Seriously, we all need to learn to laugh a bit more. You can't be all srs bizness all the time, a silly little temporary Google banner will not kill you.
Yes, it works on iPhone. Not very well, mind you, but it is controllable with swipes.
Have a Nice Day, Adobe!
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd
Works here on Firefox 3.6.3 (Mac). Maybe you're blocking the javascript?
Noticed it at work this morning.
Told a few people.
Poster should note that there is SOUND!
Sporadically every now and then I hear Pac-Man going on a few cubes away. lol.
Mute your sound before going to Google if your in an Office setting... Unless they are cool enough to let you play video games at work. My bosses are a bit sticky about that.
And this is why you should keep Javascript disabled, if not at all times, at least at work.
+1 Anal Retentive.
In all seriousness, you have the sound enabled on your PC in a professional environment?
I don't know what it's advertising. I don't know what the punch-the-monkey ads were advertising either!
It's part of Google's core values not to poinlessly annoy people on the web. The strength of their business was that they never did this. Google text ads were revolutionary - no flashing lights, no noise, no games. This goes against everything I like about Google. But, yay PacMan?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
You know you can configure your search bar to use Google in *whatever* browser you're using, right? So you don't have to go to Google's home page? I can't remember the last time I typed "www.google.com" into my url bar (before today, when I heard there was something strange in the neighborhood).
What do you think, sirs?
From the point of view of a serious organization, I don't think it was such a good choice - a large part of Google's audience are people who just use the computer to work, can barely use it, and any deviation from standard behavior prompts panic and a call to help desk (us!) to ask why the hell did the computer start making noises and playing games by itself, and how we should run there to run an antivirus check and preferably take the computer outside and burn it with a flame thrower lest the nasty virus spread through the network and wreak havoc in the organization.
From the point of view of a geeky videogame addict, I'd say it kicks ass. And people who get too concerned with it should get a life. Or maybe play a game or two :)
It's not entirely done in JavaScript - they have an off-screen Flash applet that handles the sound.
Let's not forget the golden rule of business: NO FUN ON FRIDAY!
Or any other day, for that matter. Why would someone on an office setting have the volume turned on? The normal Windows noise is enough to drive you to distraction...
Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out. - Cardinal Wolsey
I can hear many of my staff playing as I write this.
Ah, well!
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True, and good point. I love Pac Man. Like almost everyone of my generation, I probably put enough quarters in Pac Man to have purchased a full stand up version of the game.
However, I don't want it jumping up in my face when I least expect it...most of all while I'm trying to concentrate at work.
They should have put the artsy logo on there, then taken you to the game when you click on the logo...not had it just start playing the music and such when you go to their main page.
Some work environment are sensitive to potential time wasting (I'm sure mine isn't the only one) and I really don't like having been put in a position to explain that I wasn't playing the game...it just popped up.
I also DO have javascript disabled on most sites, but I add sites I trust to my "trusted sites" internet zone. Google was there, but will probably be removed now.
Disagree if you will, but it was bad jugement on Google's part (they are guilty of a lot of that lately).
Just my $0.02
-JJS
Pac-Man CE is awesome, but try pressing Insert Coin a second time and use WASD along with the arrows. You are now dual-wielding Pac-Man.
Having an "alarm sound" in google home page is not that wise decision, I got reports about people calling helpdesk tech support in order to report an "alarm sound", "its a virus?", "hijacked google home page, please run anti-spyware", etc, etc
Is PacMan that important to the general public? I agree is /. material, but for non-tech people I dont think it matters...
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They have a bug in the Pacman game.
If you try to do a Google search in the search bar after you're done playing the game, the WASD keys don't work. Even after you do the search from the first page, and the first page of results shows up, you still can't use those keys.
I'm betting that "pcmn" is going to be one of today's hottest Google trends.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
This is the most awesome thing Google has done all year!
I usually keep my work computer muted unless I need audio. I picked up that habit after being rickrolled about a billion times.
Where are my mod points when I need them...
It's also the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back today.
Cool! Amazing Toys.
You can hear your staff playing video games while you post on Slashdot? But I thought 3DRealms folded?
And I want to run a game programmed in Javascript on my computer WHY? I helped write a simulator for a PDP-10 that ran on a PDP-11 (36 bit machine on a 16 bit machine) 30+ years ago. And there was a concrete corporate need for it (we were modifying the Bliss-11 compiler which was written in Bliss-10). And even though I like PacMan (lord knows how many quarters I plugged into it at the local video game parlors in the 80's) I would still pause before I open my machine(s) up to running Javascript games.
If only from the simple perspective that an interpreted, garbage collected language (such as Javascript) is inherently less efficient than a compiled language (C, Pascal, whatever) -- and it therefore is going to burn more CPU cycles than are required to perform the functionality the game provides. AND IT IS THEREFORE NOT GREEN!
The goal of programmers (world-wide) should not be on "how do I implement something clever and cool". It should instead be on how do I reduce the CO2 footprint of my program? It is a sad state when one is promoting programs which may increase wasteful expenditure of energy (via Javascript). If /. is a "good" forum, should they not be promoting good directions?
Ditto on the OS?Browser combo here. According to page 6 of the Mozilla support ticket for this says the "cool previews" add-on is causing the only sound issue.
I have already received a technical support call regarding this.
"Help my computer is making alarm sounds I think something broke! Here listen to this! *holds phone to computer speaker*"
*facepalm*
I simply can't believe we've come this far and we STILL don't have a mute button as a standard item on web browsers. By Lucifer's beard!
People in your office should grow up and have a little fun....
Add it to the whitelist in the flash blocker plug in and its quiet. You can even play the game silent that way if you want. You are the big bad pro. Figure it out.
It is advertising Pac-Man.
It's impressive for the same reason that building a trebuchet out of popsicle sticks and rubber bands or making music with Tesla coils is impressive, even though the trebuchet could never knock down a castle and the song could never win a Grammy. Had you ever written so much as a Hello World, you would realize that.
And no, you weren't just trolling to get a rise out of the Slasdotters. You really were trying to make yourself feel better by shitting on an accomplishment that for all its technical modesty is far beyond your potential. And it isn't working.
It is the 30th anniversary of a game that was huge during the most formative years of the average google employee (and most likely the average /. users). I think we can all let it slide for 2 days.
One lingering questions about this: Did Google have to get permission from copyright holders to make this game? I'm assuming that it would be a no-brainer to let google create this game, because anyone with a financial interest in the game would certainly welcome a free ad of this magnitude, but what are the rights of Namco, et. al. regarding this now 30 year old game? Do they still "own" the game-proper? What about the soundtrack?
I don't know what it's advertising. I don't know what the punch-the-monkey ads were advertising either!
But the punch-the-monkey ads were, in fact, ads. This is not.
The kicker is there's even a kill screen after stage 255. That's some serious dedication right there.
I like to think of online DRM as something akin to a college -- you pay for lessons until you learn something.
Some people think it's a virus :)
I've seen a Firefox/iGoogle setup with CoolPreview and indeed the music is audible but the game is not to be seen in iGoogle which would lead to justifiable speculation from some users.
shoot.. modded that down.
Set my mind to blown Sir.
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It is advertising Pac-Man.
Really? Where on that page do I click to buy the game?
Oh. I can't?
Ok...where do I click to go to the game's homepage so I can buy it?
What? That's not there either?
What a useless advertisement.
Oh....I guess it's not an advertisement after all....
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Well, if Pacman isn't your cup of tea, there's always Quake II in your browser.
/var/run/twitter.sock is a twitter socket puppet.
Thanks google. This just started an argument in my office. My boss and 7 other "engineers" laughed at me when I said it was done in JavaScript.
"You can't write games in JavaScript."
"But it's a .js file."
"You can't script games!."
"But..I can show you the code.. and 50 other games written in JavaScript."
"You're an idiot."
Sigh...
Awesome yes, the only thing is I hope that some higher up decides to use this as a reason to block google for the next few days.
No kidding. I have headphones plugged in always, even when I'm not using them. That way when I click on a troll link, I'm the only one that will hear, "Hey, everybody! I'm looking at gay porno!"
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
In that case, it is a shame they did not do the sounds using HTML5. It would be nice to a reworked version using HTML Audio.
I've been told HTML5's <audio> has five deficiencies:
I could be wrong; feel free to post links to web sites demonstrating how to overcome these deficiencies.
I work in a multimedia lab
Just don't insert a coin then you idiot?
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
DAMN GOOGLE! now I have a quarter crammed into my LCD.
If you've ever types "srs bizness", you probably need a little more serious business.
Wow a textbook definition of a redundant comment, good enough to be take as a textbook example even.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
I have always used Google because it's quiet. Google had the fastest-loading, least-busy homepage. It was a place to go for a web search, not some damn "portal" thing. And the ads served with the serch results are low-key and non-intrusive. That's what makes Google good - but not today.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
They weren't annoying becuase they were ads! They were annoying because someone wassticking distracting nonsense in the way of what I was trying to do.
I have fucking PacMan on MAME on my PC at home. I played it last week, even. It doesn't belong on my search engine.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
If you can't be silly while posting to Slashdot from work, when can you be silly?
Donkey Kong will be awesome next year!!!
I'm a serious collector of Pac-Man memorabilia (I once paid over $100 for a box of Pac-Man cereal and my wedding next month will be Pac-Man themed.) and I had no idea it was Pac-Man's 30th anniversery today!
Thanks google!
BTW, if anyone has book 3 or 5 of the Pac-Man cross stitch patterns then I'd love to have them! (I have books 1, 2, 4, and 6.).
Cow Cube
Despite what you may have been told when you were a kid, your level of approval holds approximately zero value for anybody.
But do go on fortifying your stick in the mud. We'll leave it right where it is. Promise.
Anyway, the point here was "Fun," I believe. As much as Google's monolithic structure worries me, they do know how to let their employees out to stretch their Happy! That improves the world.
So Thumbs Up. I just spent fifteen minutes eating dots and loving it!
-FL
even cooler would be if they would save the top 10 highest scores.
I'm a serious collector of Pac-Man memorabilia (I once paid over $100 for a box of Pac-Man cereal and my wedding next month will be Pac-Man themed.)
Even as a married man, you'll always be a virgin.
It's hard to believe because it's not true; nearly every company includes some sort of media bar on the keyboard, at least for sound.
Beyond that, it's not the point. Web browsers should at least have a mute button for the whole browser, built in, if not on a per-tab basis.
They said they have the original bugs, I found that if you eat ghosts that are right next to each other, it will only eat one of them. Did anyone find the easter egg yet?
I'm sure that's why they saved it for Friday.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I do. But the sound from the google pac man doesn't play . . . my email notifications do, as do the "you pressed a stupid button" sound, pandora, etc. I wish I could hear the pac man music . . .
Yeah... tell that to the guy who just got fired because he just loaded up google when The Owner walked by.
I hope I'm only kidding.
...a mute button as a standard item on web browsers...
try putting down the latte, ask them to turn the lights up a bit in the bookstore/coffee house and adjust your stupid assed thin rimmed glasses.... and get those emo-kid bangs out of your line of sight and read the freakin post you mac loser....
mute button ON WEB BROWSERS
Vista has per-app volume controls, apparently, it's one of the few things I miss since I gave up Windows
Thank you for proving that no matter WHAT someone does, someone, somewhere, is going to complain about it.
Interestingly enough, it is currently #14
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?sa=X&oi=prbx_hot_trends&ct=more-results
I've been a programmer for a few years but within the last 8 months have been working on a project using Javascript.
I've been struggling with forms and trees and autocompletes and getting the css to look the same across all browsers and then I see that.
I'm amazed at what they were able to do in Javascript...if I had 1/10th of that skill I'd be done with my project by now.
Clearly it's time for me to put in an application at McDonald's...
It's a trap! They're just trying to encourage greater uptake of Google Chrome! 'cause it plays like crap in Firefox with a lot of tabs open, but is very smooth in Chrome, with the V8 engine underneath it.
Those evil evil Googlers...
Also, I wonder if by just going ahead and replacing functionality of the second biggest button on a screen Google accepts (or is going to find out as part of this experiment) that "I'm feeling lucky" button is completely useless?
Save Complete Page in Firefox doesn't get even close to all the pieces. This must be preserved, to be played every year on May 21st. Is there a save Addon that can get it all automatically or do I have to spelunk in my cache?
While playing pacman at work
Cool, how does the keyboard button know that it's only the web browser whose volume you want to control? Oh wait, you don't know how to read nor have you seen almost every keyboard produced in the last 10 years.
From hell's heart I fstab at /dev/hdc
Windows mixer... Mute the FireFox window.
...And yet it's still very likely cooler than anything you've ever accomplished.
Seriously, I'm sure that the engineers at Google had about 2,741,288 more productive things they could have been doing than this, but they did it anyway because it was fun. It was probably some guy that that churned it out in his spare time. It sure is easy to cast stones at other people's endeavors from your comfortable armchair, isn't it? Tell you what, get off your butt and do something you think is neat in your spare time, let us pick it apart for being "meh" compared to professionally developed products, and then we'll see if you are so quick to criticize again.
This doodle may overshadow the Official PAC-MAN 30th Anniversary Destination.
Yes, because google.com can handle being /.ed, pacman.com not so much.
the much-loathed pulseaudio has this also. It's not very convenient though; takes a lot of clicks to get to, at least the way it's set up in ubuntu. It's even worse now, since the volume control panel app is no longer available by default in 10.04. wtf?
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
I simply can't believe we've come this far and we STILL don't have a mute button as a standard item on web browsers. By Lucifer's beard!
By Grabthar's Hammer!
Bow-ties are cool.
Just don't insert a coin then you idiot?
If you sit on the Google front page for about 9 seconds without hitting "insert coin", the game starts anyway.
(I think it would've been better to make it just go to a silent demo mode instead...)
Bow-ties are cool.
They weren't annoying becuase they were ads! They were annoying because someone wassticking distracting nonsense in the way of what I was trying to do.
I have fucking PacMan on MAME on my PC at home. I played it last week, even. It doesn't belong on my search engine.
Whatever, dude. It's awesome and you know it.
Bow-ties are cool.
It's not just a productivity issue. Some users are also panicking that the Pacman game could be the result of a virus.
Sophos has reported on the scare at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/05/21/panic-pacman-virus-infected-google/, although personally I prefer the bit of their blog post where they describe *genuine* game-related viruses from the past.
You and the GP need to lighten the fuck up and get laid.
Ah, I get it "Someone at Google connects with the things I think are cool, and I can imagine being friends with them".
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
I think you played a different Google Pacman than I did. Granted, the layout is "bad", but that's because it has to spell out the company name. Other than that, the ghosts seemed to generally chase as well as the originals and they absolutely did not "stay blue forever".
Somebody else mentioned that the ghosts stay blue forever in 2-player mode. I haven't tested this (and if I did, I don't know when I'd be able to get an answer to you) but certainly, if I get a power pellet and then go somewhere the ghosts won't come and find me, they will stay blue for several minutes at least.
The main difference to me is that it felt like the game was in slow motion (including Pacman) but that might just be the size.
This may be due to the turbo settings that tend to be configured on a lot of the coin-op games. A lot of the machines you'll see out there play faster than the originals. My local movie theater has one of the Ms. Pac Man/Galaga machines, and in that, right from the first level, Ms. Pac Man is fast. In the newer machines I think it's a configuration bit you can set - in the older ones I believe the faster gameplay came from hacked ROMs and so on. (I don't know all the history, really.)
Bow-ties are cool.
I'm a serious collector of Pac-Man memorabilia (I once paid over $100 for a box of Pac-Man cereal and my wedding next month will be Pac-Man themed.) and I had no idea it was Pac-Man's 30th anniversary today!
Did you ever get those Pac-Man candies they had in the early 1980s, where the different-shaped candies were all contained in a blister-pack "maze" and to get the candy out you had to navigate it through the maze?
Bow-ties are cool.
Odd, I get no sound in my Mozilla's SeaMonkey v2.0.4 in my updated, 64-bit Windows HP. But I do get them in IE8. What is it using for audio?
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Yeah... tell that to the guy who just got fired because he just loaded up google when The Owner walked by. I hope I'm only kidding.
If my boss walked by when I opened Google and asked what was going on, I'd tell him to go to his computer and go to Google as well. I'd take 10 seconds to explain that it's the 30th anniversary of the game and Google put up a tribute to it, then we'd resume talking about business (or he'd resume walking wherever he was going) and that would be the end of the discussion.
If I ever worked for a boss that was so anal retentive they'd consider discipline for such a thing, or if ever I found myself in a position where by boss trusted me so little as to believe I was wasting time on the company's dime, I'd quit my job and promptly find another.
BD Phone Home!
Shameless plug. Like you weren't expecting it.
They weren't annoying becuase they were ads! They were annoying because someone wassticking distracting nonsense in the way of what I was trying to do.
I have fucking PacMan on MAME on my PC at home. I played it last week, even. It doesn't belong on my search engine.
Sooo.. Boycott Google if it offends you so much. Otherwise lighten up and quit bitching over petty nonsense?
Just a suggestion. Life is too short.
BD Phone Home!
Shameless plug. Like you weren't expecting it.
They weren't annoying becuase they were ads! They were annoying because someone wassticking distracting nonsense in the way of what I was trying to do.
Then maybe when you post something to complain about distracting nonsense, you should avoid focusing so much on ads. And you certainly shouldn't be referring to something as an ad when it is clearly not.
There is also an Easter egg for those who want to recall one of the first multi-player games, but you'll have to RTFA to find it.
aww man, so nobody on Slashdot will ever know what the Easter egg is!
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
...I will avenge you!
Still... Not a button!
It's amazing how much Pac-Man junk there is out there! I have Pac-Man roller skates, trash cans, stickers, sleeping bags, vitamins, keychains, board games, a phone, a radio, a sled, bed sheets, many types of glasses, many types of toys, and a whole bunch of other stuff. It all looks great on display in my rec room!
Cow Cube
Where's that "-1 Whaah" rating when you need it...
I think you mean "...You will be avenged".
By Klono's gadolinium guts!
Says "celibate for life".
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I just keep a pair of headphones plugged in at all times. If I want to listen to something, I put them on.
I just reproduced the "blue forever" bug in 2 player mode (it's pretty obvious how to trigger it), but have yet to see it in the normal mode.
I still say the ghost AI is pretty close.
Insert coin twice to enable multiplayer.
One player is controlled via arrow keys, the other by wasd.
It's not multiplayer mode, it's two-handed mode, and it's awesome— although extremely confusing and difficult.
http://xkcdexplained.com/post/285788458/abstraction
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Ahh, pedantry. It's about as much of an ad as the "Punch the monkey" banners were: a banner-shaped game unconnected with the actual product in question, but similar in form to that of ads.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
I just reproduced the "blue forever" bug in 2 player mode (it's pretty obvious how to trigger it), but have yet to see it in the normal mode.
I still say the ghost AI is pretty close.
Yeah, I bet it is... From the various articles it sounds like they tried to reproduce the original ghost movements (which are well-known among avid players, fairly predictable) - but with the different maze layout they fall into predictable patterns...
As for the 2-player power pellet bug - I guess I missed something. I didn't think you had to do anything special to trigger it....
Bow-ties are cool.
Pac-Man follows your mouse click.
Pretty much.
Having an emo fit over a banner ad and moving to *chuckles* AltaVista is just showing how emotionally unstable you are.
I mean, if you were a serious user of Google you'd be using an iGoogle page, and would never have seen this banner (I didn't till I saw this article and clicked on "Classic Home").
You know Google change change their main page graphic very often, why is it such a surprise that they changed it to this?
I mean, why even come here and post? Was it to seem like you're an emotionally unstable person who can't work with the slightest amount of noise? If your work is that important and you can't handle any noise at all (I don't know what 10 seconds of noise before you shut it off is such a problem), maybe you should consider not having speakers, or completely muting the sound of your computer?
No - not pedantry. You called it something that it wasn't. You didn't say it was LIKE something. You said it WAS something. And then you started to talk about text ads. Now you're making the comparison. Pity you didn't take the time to form a coherent point earlier.
I showed it to my boss and the receptionist, and they both thought it was pretty cool. I have a pretty cool boss, though.
Certainly annoyed me (slightly, thanks to my keen knowledge of clipboard-fu). I guess they didn't want to force the GIGANTIC user base to click the ad to start play.
Incidentally, the playable doodle doesn't actually link to a relevant search (like others), and I think people will interpret that (combined with the WASD thing) as a conspiracy to prevent searching for Neave's Flash version, or other free ones. I think Google just didn't care. :)
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
That's what I said. More or less. Less.
I think it's just fun.
One that hath name thou can not otter
Interesting. How did it get in the way of your search?
Information wants to be beer.
Why were you loitering on the home page long enough for the game to start?
Time is money. Chop chop!
The boss.
Information wants to be beer.
I just see the game screen but cannot do a thing. (I don't have many add-ons)
Works fine with Opera.
Irrelevant news and morons using moderation to mod down what they disagree on. 2018 resolution: so long.
I assume that it will be on their site which has the collection of Doodles they did the past few years: http://www.google.com/logos/
When you shoot a mime, do you use a silencer?
But since I tried it yesterday, they've changed a search for "pcmn" to "Did you mean: pacman?" Which says something for their search engine, every if the doodle's JS is broken.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
Really .... depends what you do I think
Watch an online training video
Do a video conference
Use Skype for clients in far away places
That's just my top three.
Ouch
If you didn't click INSERT COIN, it was just a different logo like they have done 100s of other times.
Ouch
I get it - you get neeeerrrrddddd raaaaaaaagggggeeeee when some one uses a word in a way you disagree with. But you're not a pedant. BTW, you are a giraffe.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
What the hell does sound mixing have to do with your browser? That’s what your mixer app is there for!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
It's flash making sounds.. you SHOULD HAVE IT DISABLED!
It's Javascript making sounds.
Sound is *already* handled by the browser, but right now, you're pretty much at the mercy of the script/app/flash coder.
Have you looked at the source?
While it's technically created from javascript, it's still flash.
Could have been HTML5 <audio>
g.prepareSound=function(){
g.soundAvailable=e;
g.soundReady=e;g.detectFlash();
if(!g.hasFlash||!g.isFlashVersion("9.0.0.0")){
g.soundReady=a;g.checkIfEverythingIsReady()
} else {
g.flashIframe=document.createElement("iframe");
g.flashIframe.name="pm-sound";
g.flashIframe.style.position="absolute";
g.flashIframe.style.top="-150px";
g.flashIframe.style.border=0;
g.flashIframe.style.width="100px";
g.flashIframe.style.height="100px";
google.dom.append(g.flashIframe);
g.flashIframeDoc=g.flashIframe.contentDocument;
if(g.flashIframeDoc==undefined||g.flashIframeDoc==null) g.flashIframeDoc=g.flashIframe.contentWindow.document;
g.flashIframeDoc.open();
g.flashIframeDoc.write('<html><head></head><body><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="0" height="0" id="pacman-sound-player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="movie" value="logos/swf/pacman10-hp-sound.swf"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <object id="pacman-sound-player-2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="logos/swf/pacman10-hp--sound.swf" width="0" height="0"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> </object></object></body></html>
');
g.flashIframeDoc.close();
window.setTimeout(g.flashNotReady,3E3)
}
};
I stand corrected. But that still doesn't address the need for a mute button on browsers.