Google Celebrates PACMAN 30th Anniversary

PAC-MAN is a cultural icon whose popularity has crossed the globe for 30 years. This official PAC-MAN 30th Anniversary site is dedicated to telling the story of PAC-MAN through his games, gear, and accomplishments.

His journey through the maze of gaming infamy is far from over! Be sure to check in as the story is told that is distinctly PAC-MAN, The interactive doodle — a first for Google — is the brainchild of senior user experience designer Marcin Wichary, whose earliest exposure to Pac-Man came at age five while traveling across his native Poland with his father.

"As a group, we feel like we should do something to make him come back," Namco Bandai's US COO Makoto Iwai told Gamasutra (thanks Kotaku). "So, there's one project that we started working on, and [Yasuhara is] part of it."

Countdown to the Google Celebrates PACMAN 30th Anniversary of the yellow eater and his ghosts friends: Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde… Wow!! Seems like yesterday that I insert my first coin in a Pac Man arcade machine…

To play the game, go to google.com/google.co.uk during the next 48 hours (a day longer than usual because – as Google explains – "it's too cool to keep for just one day) an

Paying tribute to the 30th anniversary of  the arcade game classic PAC-MAN, Google have put up their first-ever playable Google doodle on the search homepage.

Google has often used its logo as real estate to promote graphics, illustrations and national holidays, but the temporary replacement of the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button with "Insert Coin" marks a playful departure from Google's iconic two-button search interface

Namco's gaming classic Pac-Man turns 30 on May 22nd, and gamers and techies alike are celebrating in style. Next to Mario, Pac-Man is one of gaming's most recognizable characters. Google's homepage features the Google logo as a fully working Pac-Man game. How awesome is that?

Pac-Man is turning 30, and Google's main search page is offering up the ultimate tribute. If you haven't seen it already, the search engine has posted a playable Pac-Man game as an anniversary tribute.

Pac-man 30th Anniversary is celebrated today, May 22. How Pac-man 30th Anniversary came into reality? Pacman is an arcade game created by Namco and licensed for distribution in the U.S. by Midway, first released in Japan on May 22, 1980.