You know, without actually needing any quarters." And we can only hope you find using Google at least a quarter as enjoyable as eating dots and chasing ghosts. There's a light-hearted, human touch to both of them. They're both deceptively straightforward, carefully hiding their complexity under the hood. Wichary says Pac-Man "seems like a natural fit for the Google homepage. Ms Pac-Man was also one of the first video games to attract a female following at a time when most players were (at least reputedly) spotty boys. The games soon appeared on home computers, too, though a Pac-Man cartridge for an Atari 800 cost more than £30. For me, that meant summer trips through Poland's coastal cities with their seasonal arcade parlors peeking inside cabinets to learn programming and engineering secrets and – of course – free games!"Īlthough Tōru Iwatani's Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man are now free "casual" games, they were state-of-the-art in the early 1980s, and they harvested billions of dollars in loose change. Marcin Wichary, Google programmer and senior user interface designer, says: "When I was growing up, my dad had the best job I could possibly imagine: he was an arcade game and pinball technician. Ms Pac-Man joins the game, with the second person controlling her movements using the WASD keys. "Have you guys been hacked? I thought I had contracted a virus," wrote another.If you click twice on "Insert Coin" then two people can play. "What is with the annoying Pac- Man Audio playing on your search page today?" wrote one of more than 200 visitors to Google's help page, most of who were complaining about the Pac-Man doodle. But even though Pac-Man grew to become the best-selling coin-operated game in history, the Google doodle was decidedly less popular with internet users. The Google doodle Pac-Man was complete with the arcade game's trademark music and sound effects, and an "Insert Coin" button where Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button usually is. The game designed by Toru Iwatani was first released by Japan-based Namco into arcades on May 22, 1980. Web users who opened Google's homepage after 1500 GMT on Friday - which is midnight in Japan, where Pac-Man was born - were greeted by a small-scale Pac-man game set around a barely discernible "Google" in the middle of the game's colourful maze. Internet giant Google marked the 30th birthday of Pac-Man by featuring the classic arcade videogame in the first-ever playable doodle on its home page.
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