{"id":730934,"date":"2010-05-21T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=159217"},"modified":"2010-05-21T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T16:25:21","slug":"pac-man-greets-google-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/730934","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man greets Google visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An exciting thing happened to people who actually visit the Google homepage<\/A> (rather than just using their Web browser’s built-in search box) today. They found Pac-Man, celebrating his 30th anniversary! The Penny-Arcade guys<\/A> must be freaking out.<\/p>\n

Update – Guess what? It works on the iPad.<\/p>\n

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You click “Insert Coin” and are thrown into a classic game of Pac-Man<\/i>. I beat the first level and decided that was enough for me.<\/p>\n

I do love the careful balance Google maintains between stomping<\/A> all over your reasonable expectations of privacy and offering up electronic tiddlywinks.<\/p>\n

UPDATE – I was curious as to whether this doodle would work on mobile browsers so I fired it up in the iPad. It sat there for a moment but when the Javascript loaded it started up and I was able to play the game by sliding my finger up, down, left, and right on the screen. Pretty fun.
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