{"id":574865,"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.media\/index\/574865","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man greets Google visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/21\/pac-man-greets-google-visitors\/googlepac\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/googlepac.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"googlepac\" width=\"574\" height=\"288\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An exciting thing happened to people who actually visit <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">the Google homepage<\/A> (rather than just using their Web browser&#8217;s built-in search box) today. They found Pac-Man, celebrating his 30th anniversary! The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/\">Penny-Arcade guys<\/A> must be freaking out.<\/p>\n<p>Update &#8211; Guess what? It works on the iPad.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-159217\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You click &#8220;Insert Coin&#8221; and are thrown into a classic game of <i>Pac-Man<\/i>. I beat the first level and decided that was enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>I do love the careful balance Google maintains between <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/21\/technology\/21streetview.html?src=busln\">stomping<\/A> all over your reasonable expectations of privacy and offering up electronic tiddlywinks.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE &#8211; 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.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/scaled.photo_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/scaled.photo_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"scaled.photo\" width=\"620\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/mv8IJSl-HpzahPY0UEsRCVTAUyc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/mv8IJSl-HpzahPY0UEsRCVTAUyc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/mv8IJSl-HpzahPY0UEsRCVTAUyc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/mv8IJSl-HpzahPY0UEsRCVTAUyc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=mAsRXtxqCNk:QKn24dQldGU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=mAsRXtxqCNk:QKn24dQldGU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=mAsRXtxqCNk:QKn24dQldGU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=mAsRXtxqCNk:QKn24dQldGU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=mAsRXtxqCNk:QKn24dQldGU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exciting thing happened to people who actually visit the Google homepage (rather than just using their Web browser&#8217;s built-in search box) today. 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