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| 22 MAY 2010 at 5:26am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Cool! A great adaption, they even included the cut scenes between levels. A shame that's it's only up for 48 hours. I hope they archive it somewhere.
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| 22 MAY 2010 at 5:59am |
chronotigger65Journeyman
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Status : Offline | But does it plays well and is legal?
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| 22 MAY 2010 at 6:19am |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By chronotigger65 (22 MAY 2010 5:58am)
But does it plays well and is legal?
Huh? Yes and no, I suppose.
Yes, it plays well like a little web Flash game should and... perhaps no. Maybe not in China.
But I imagine the Pac-Man owners are quite thrilled about their game being "honored" and aren't gonna sue Google, Tig. Don't you worry.
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| 23 MAY 2010 at 5:21am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | I got eaten
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| 23 MAY 2010 at 11:44am |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (23 MAY 2010 5:21am)
I got eaten
Now you know how chocolate must feel.
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| 23 MAY 2010 at 2:02pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Anyone who eats chocolate as quickly as that doesn't deserve it.
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| 24 MAY 2010 at 1:17am |
ButterproofSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Caroline (23 MAY 2010 2:01pm)
Anyone who eats chocolate as quickly as that doesn't deserve it.
Oh cm'on...
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| 24 MAY 2010 at 1:46am |
| Deleted User | Darn.
I would certainly never have wasted all those quarters back in '80 had I the foresight that thirty years later I would be able to play it for free. :
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| 24 MAY 2010 at 2:27am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Well, I discovered I'm still as good at Pac-Man as I ever was. (Which is to say, I always hit "game over" after the first few levels.) :
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| 24 MAY 2010 at 2:55am |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Online | PacMan was one of the first arcade games that made me realize that my fast twitch muscles don't.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 24 MAY 2010 at 3:33am |
MarkGuild Master
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Well, like Andromus said, it was only up for forty-eight hours.
But it made sorta big news. For one, it was Google's first interactive game built into their daily banner and secondly, millions of people worldwide didn't get much work done Friday.
Productivity was down, bandwidth usage was down and the only website many workers visited was Google. Anyway, that's what I heard.
If you do a Google search for Google Pac-Man 30th Anniversary, it's still out there.
Imagine that. Using Google to search Google.
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| 24 MAY 2010 at 8:33am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Andromus (24 MAY 2010 2:27am)
Well, I discovered I'm still as good at Pac-Man as I ever was. (Which is to say, I always hit "game over" after the first few levels.) :
There are levels in pacman?
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| 24 MAY 2010 at 11:19am |
Simo Sakari AaltonenSpace Cadet
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Status : Offline | Someone who I know had her father ring him up in panic when this was still up. He thought his computer was infected with a virus because there were these strange creatures running around on the screen when he accessed Google.
[url=http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/album.php?u=57439][i]King's Quest[/i] & [i]Space Quest[/i] galleries (Telltale Forums)[/url]&&&&[url=http://www.adventurecompanion.com]The Adventure Companion[/url]
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| 24 MAY 2010 at 11:42am |
MarkGuild Master
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I was thrown into a state of panic when I first came here and saw all the strange creatures running around.
But then Caroline introduced herself.
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| 24 MAY 2010 at 6:41pm |
Simo Sakari AaltonenSpace Cadet
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Status : Offline | [font=Courier New]: Pardon me while I pop a few more pills and get that cherry... (eats)
-> [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
[smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]: Is this a ghost I see before me? (Or four?)
[url=http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/album.php?u=57439][i]King's Quest[/i] & [i]Space Quest[/i] galleries (Telltale Forums)[/url]&&&&[url=http://www.adventurecompanion.com]The Adventure Companion[/url]
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| 24 MAY 2010 at 9:17pm |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Simo_Sakari (24 MAY 2010 6:40pm)
[font=Courier New]: Pardon me while I pop a few more pills and get that cherry... (eats)
-> [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
[smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]: Is this a ghost I see before me? (Or four?)
Heh, that reminds me of a faux trailer I saw for a Pac-Man movie where the pills have similar side effects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIIAeG4STxE
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| 24 MAY 2010 at 10:08pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Online | [smiley=laughing.gif] That's a great spoof, Andromus!
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-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 25 MAY 2010 at 11:57am |
Simo Sakari AaltonenSpace Cadet
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Status : Offline | Amazing trailer. Kind of creepy too! All the old arcade games seem nightmarish if you imagine living in a world that only has those elements and nothing else.
[url=http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/album.php?u=57439][i]King's Quest[/i] & [i]Space Quest[/i] galleries (Telltale Forums)[/url]&&&&[url=http://www.adventurecompanion.com]The Adventure Companion[/url]
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| 25 MAY 2010 at 5:56pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Mark (22 MAY 2010 6:19am)
...a little web Flash game...
I was wrong. The Google Pac-Man game is written with a combination of HTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and Javascript. I had a glance at the source code and realized there ain't no Flash.
Maybe Apple has something up its sleeve. Apple opted not to support Flash on the new iPad. It seems HTML is getting more sophisticated and fancy without requiring the use of plug-ins.
Originally Posted By Mark (24 MAY 2010 3:33am)
Aw! It's gone!
Another correction necessary here. Google has now kept this little game close to home: Google Pac-Man
And to be honest, I didn't waste too many quarters or too much time playing arcade Pac-Man. I always felt too old for that sort of thing.
Only until I actually admitted to myself that I really was getting a bit long in the tooth and considered myself a gamer of any sort was when I first played Sanitarium, Shivers, and Riven. Adventure games opened my eyes (and blew my mind) to gaming, and the genre remains one of my very few guilt-free pleasures.
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