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Google Maps Adds 'Ms. Pac-Man' Feature (blog.google)
An anonymous reader quotes a blog post by Google Maps:
Starting now until April 4, you can chomp fruit, avoid ghosts, and collect PAC-Dots along city streets in Google Maps worldwide -- all as Ms. PAC-Maps. Just tap on the Ms. PAC-Maps icon on iOS and Android, or click the Ms. PAC-Maps button at the bottom left on desktop, to enter the maze and start chompin'. Sign in to save your top score on the leaderboard and share with friends.
A playable Google doodle commemorated Pac-Man's 30th anniversary in 2010 -- and was estimated to have cost the IT sector (and other workplaces) 4.8 million hours in lost productivity.
A playable Google doodle commemorated Pac-Man's 30th anniversary in 2010 -- and was estimated to have cost the IT sector (and other workplaces) 4.8 million hours in lost productivity.
I'm sure that you are fun at parties.
I wouldn't know. I can't find the party because my gps app is stuck in PAC MAN mode.
I sure hope so, the new UI barely functions for me on the latest FF and if the goal is to be more like fark, well, fark is a fail onto itself. This UI (color schema and design) makes the horrible mobile interface look half way usable.
Just follow the dots to get to the party.
Google, instead of wasting tons of hours programming a silly temporary game in a MAP program, how about using those resources to have freaking reminders on the Google Calendar for birthdays? People have only been asking for this for what, 5 years now?? Yeah, really, it is still impossible for the calendar to send notifications so users don't miss peoples' birthdays!
I could go down the list of dozens of important things that people have been waiting for in Android, Maps, Chrome, ChromeOS, etc. But this is a great example.
Whoosh!
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Agreed. Why not go full retard and make it lesbian, transexual, black, Muslim Mx Pac-Person?
You have to click a button to trigger it. It doesn't randomly turn into Pacman.
"Why is it always Ms. Pac-Man?" Because it's not always Ms. Pac-Man. Google already did regular Pac-Man seven years ago as a Google Doodle in celebration of Pac-Man's 30th anniversary.
#DeleteChrome
Why can't they make it Blackman for once?
I should point out that as funny as it may be Ms Pac-Man on Google Maps is real and not a April Fools Joke....
Well he IS running down the middle of a public street, being chased by ghosts... so there's that.
Also off topic but I saw this Friday. Many articles I've noticed recently have been a day or three old. Our community's small newspaper has a better chance of containing timely stories vs Slashdot.
Also Ms PacMan was awesome
I know what you mean. I haven't figured out how they forced us to click on the Ms. Pac-Map icon to start the game, but it sure was insidious and I don't know it's I'll ever recover from being forced to play it by Google!
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Well ... That's half right. It is both real and an AF joke actually.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Reliability, stability, usability. Do these words mean anything to google? If there were a viable alternative I would have replaced them and their operating system today with zero second chances.
This is OT, but is the Slashdot redesign an April Fool's joke? It used to be grey but now all of the sudden everything is orange. Is this a new design after so many years or a prank?
Slacker News? Yes it is a joke.
You would have abhorred the video game I wrote in Lotus 1-2-3 back in the day.
Ms. Pac-Man is the perfect example of how women are meant to put as many balls in their mouth as possible.
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