![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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.
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