Top search engine Google have celebrated the 30th anniversary of one of the top computer games – Pacman – by placing a useable game on its home page. The walls of the Pacman game were designed to spell out ‘Google’ and clicking on the logo allowed you to play the game as a single player and even had a two player mode. This bought about Pacman related terms being among the most searched for across the entire internet that day.
Of course, there are some people complaining that when they open up Google’s home page they are greeted with the ‘annoying sound of Pacman’. These same people complain that productivity is lost among staff who are wasting time playing the game to the point where offices are deleting Google as their home page. Of course, these are the type of people who complain about everything! I say it’s a bit of fun, if you don’t like the sound turn off your volume – besides, how many people leave the home page sitting open on their computer for any length of time?
Not something I shout about, but I can remember Pacman when it first came out. It was a huge hit and has entertained generations of people with its simplistic style and frustrating, panic inducing beeping.
Google are very inventive when it comes to designing their front page and when it’s not their typical branded banner on show, you can be sure it will be typically topical for the news that day, celebrating things going on around the world such as the Olympics or the World Cup – one to watch out for this summer!
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