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The Museum of Computing in Swindon is marking the milestone on Saturday when 'a specially constructed maze in Swindon Town centre's Wharf Green will be the venue for a unique 'Human Pac-Man' event.' Visitors to the museum will also be able to play the game on various retro machines, without the need to stock up on 50p pieces.Ĭharles Arthur adds: interestingly, as Apple, Google and Adobe war with each other over the importance of Adobe's Flash system, the doodle is written entirely in HTML, CSS and Javascript - Flash isn't required. Incidentally, Google is not alone in celebrating Pac-Man's birthday. 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.

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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. If you click twice on 'Insert Coin' then two people can play.