Pac Man Archive

  • Y’all spent 4.8 million hours playing Google Pac-Man

    Y’all spent 4.8 million hours playing Google Pac-Man

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Good job, everyone. Research firm Rescuetime says y'all spent (wasted?) 4.8 million hours playing Pac-Man on the Google homepage since its launch last week. If we convert those lost man-hours to dollars and cents, then you can say the U.S. economy has lost slightly more than $120 million because of Pac-Man.

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  • Pac-Man greets Google visitors

    Pac-Man greets Google visitors

    Posted on May 21, 2010 | No Comments
    An exciting thing happened to people who actually visit the Google homepage (rather than just using their Web browser’s built-in search box) today. They found Pac-Man, celebrating his 30th anniversary! The Penny-Arcade guys must be freaking out. Update – Guess what? It works on the iPad. You click “Insert Coin” and are thrown into a classic game [...]

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  • Pac-Man bookcase sacrifices shelf space to make room for mouth wedge

    Pac-Man bookcase sacrifices shelf space to make room for mouth wedge

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Will nobody address the elephant in the room when it comes to this awesomely wonderful Pac-Man bookcase? The mouth wedge eats up (pun intended!) valuable shelf space. But what’s the designer to do? The bookcase could be a full yellow circle to represent Pac-Man’s mouth in the closed position but people would argue, “Hey, it just looks like a yellow circle. Then again if you made the mouth wedge, you’d give up precious shelf space.”

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  • Very cool Pac-Man business card holder

    Very cool Pac-Man business card holder

    Posted on September 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember the business card case shaped like a NES controller that came out in July? Well, that one wasn't too bad, but this new Pac-Man card holder is way cooler.

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  • These Pac-Man 30th anniversary Zippos are very cool

    These Pac-Man 30th anniversary Zippos are very cool

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Namco's Pac Man was first released in Japan May 22, 1980, which means the 30th anniversary of the cult game is a good year away. But if it's Pac-Man, you can never celebrate too early: Starting in November, Namco Bandai, as the company is now called, plans to sell Pac-Man branded Zippos on the Japanese market.

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