Saturday, May 22, 2010

Pac-Man 30th Anniversary

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Pac-Man started out as the most loved PC game. Being highly addictive and fun, Pac-Man which was actually inspired by a "pizza-without-a-slice" soon grew in popularity and has now completed its 30th Anniversary. Which Google celebrated today on its main search engine website (http://www.google.com). Google has also done similar attempts in the past; for example, giving an image of the Hubble Space Satellite during a landmark set by it according to NASA. Or rendering a series of connected images to form the words Google. From the screenshots on this post, you can see the Google image that has a Pac-man game user-interface with the words Google in it. What I realized soon enough ( before my Pac-man was eaten alive!!) was that the image was actually like a game-application of Pac-Man itself.

A real masterpiece, it is like the real deal. With 3 lives and bonus points (the cherries) and also comes with the looped sound as you begin playing. And as icing on the cake, it is also very much user interactive. Breaking it down into smaller its, it is in fact a PNG file that is rendered in Adobe Image Ready. And used encoding of UTF-8, which is done to ensure it displays on all browsers of different versions.

It also displays your score, and after you're Game over, you're directed to the Pac-man Google search Page. So go there and check it out for yourself.

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