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For just a couple of days, you can play a Google-ised Pac-Man in your browser simply by going to Google.com and clicking ‘Insert Coin.’ It’s written in JavaScript and is a pretty good emulation of the original game but, of course, it spells ‘Google’ too.
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Ya I was going to post something about this the other day, guess you beat me to it. That was pretty fun though, playing pac man on google. Those guys are either geniuses or just have too much time on their hands lol.
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Actually, there is a way to enjoy the Pac-Man even without clicking “Insert Coin” and that is by going to http://www.google.com/pacman
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FYI, your RSS feed frequently republishes all of your posts, making it difficult to tell when something is actually new. Maybe it’s because the “related articles” list at the bottom of each post changes from time to time?
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I must say I loved this when Google had it up, for about 5 minutes then I got bored. Our gaming boredom threshold is so much lower these days!