Google celebrates pacman's 30th in style

This will be short but sweet. Tomorrow (May 22nd) will mark 30 years since the release of pacman, probably one of the most famous and fondly remembered games ever created. Despite being 30 years old it's still as addictive today as it has always been. In their traditional style Google have decided to honor this historic event by replacing their home page logo with one that pays homage to pacman (see below).

Nothing new here you might think as Goolge regularly updates it's pages to mark some special event, Google calls affectionately calls them 'doodles'. The awesome difference this time around though is that you can actually play pacman right on Google's home page and navigate a Google logo maze. Just go to Google and wait for the classic music to kick in and your good to go with your keyboard arrow keys.

You will also notice that the 'I'm feeling lucky' button has been replaced by an 'Insert Coin' button. Clicking that will start the game right away instead of waiting for it to auto start. But not only that, if you click the button again you can play two player pacman! Awesome or what? The second player controls the game using the WASD keys.

Enough said I think, get to it people!

[ Google playable pacman doodle ]

Does Google rock, or does Google rock?

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