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New Fri 21 May 10 16:21

Pacman 30... check out Google... - rtj70

Pacman according to the Google homepage is 30 today. So the Google logo is in the style of Pacman. Except if you click on it, it's a playable game of Pacman ;-) The first playable Google Doodle.

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New Fri 21 May 10 18:08

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Iffy

Doesn't work if you have a customised iGoogle homepage.

You need to go to the classic homepage, where the 'I'm feeling lucky' button has been replaced by 'insert coin', although the game starts automatically after a second or two.

www.google.co.uk/

I was never a big fan of Pacman, so I'm looking forward to the birthday of Space Invaders.

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New Fri 21 May 10 18:15

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Zero

you missed it, it was 30 in 2008.

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New Fri 21 May 10 18:17

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Iffy

...you missed it, it was 30 in 2008....

Damn, but some of us are still young enough to be around in 2018.

It'll be worth the wait, I know it will.

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New Fri 21 May 10 18:22

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Zero

some of us were old enough to remember playing the first of them all, pong, in pubs in 1973

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New Fri 21 May 10 18:25

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Zero

>> ...you missed it, it was 30 in 2008....
>>
>> Damn, but some of us are still young enough to be around in 2018.
>>
>> It'll be worth the wait, I know it will.

www.spaceinvaders.de/

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New Fri 21 May 10 19:04

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Iffy

...www.spaceinvaders.de/...

Thanks for that - a link to the proper classic game.

I remember pong/tennis.

It was the first video games console I owned.

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New Fri 21 May 10 19:35

Pacman 30... check out Google... - RattleandSmoke

This is the best ever Pacman, I sometimes get my C64 out just to play it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Mania

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New Fri 21 May 10 20:24

Pacman 30... check out Google... - smokie

My Mrs called me up as her laptop was making a strange noise. She thought she had a virus. I recognised the Pacman theme and we eventually found that Google is one of her home pages...

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New Fri 21 May 10 20:25

Pacman 30... check out Google... - RattleandSmoke

Hehe I am waiting for the calls "my computer is making a funny noise" :). Although if I did get the call I would get them to check google first :)

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New Fri 21 May 10 23:01

Pacman 30... check out Google... - VxFan

It is me, or does Space Invaders seem faster on the PC than it did in its humongous box?

I was never any good on the Space Invaders machine where you had two buttons to control the left / right movement. I always got better scores with the joystick control for left / right.

Also, I preferred Defender in my arcade days. They brought out a version for the BBC B computer and I was forever pestering one of my friends to let me have a go on his BBC B.

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New Mon 24 May 10 21:49

Pacman 30... check out Google... - The Nut

>> Also, I preferred Defender in my arcade days.

Is this the one? tinyurl.com/ybd7qxn

Lots of old arcade and computer games on that site, oh well there goes the rest of the evening!

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New Mon 24 May 10 22:20

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Zero

I was a galaxian fan, table top variety.

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New Mon 24 May 10 22:23

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Focusless

Lunar Jetman - Spectrum. Classic.

Had a go at that Defender in the link the other day - much too fast! Lunar Lander was just about manageable and surprisingly enjoyable. Meant to find a version of that wireframe 3D tank game...

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New Tue 25 May 10 07:31

Pacman 30... check out Google... - smokie

Yep, Galaxians for me too, and Galaga, which they have on that site, ad I still can't play!

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New Tue 25 May 10 01:06

Pacman 30... check out Google... - VxFan

>> Is this the one?

That's not the one I remember.

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New Tue 25 May 10 10:42

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Robin O'Reliant

Anyone remember spending hours typing in programmes on their Spectrum that were printed in the magazines? You ended up with a pathetic spaceship made up of a row of graphic Z's jerking it's way across the top of the screen while you fired asterisks at it from a blob of random symbols.

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New Tue 25 May 10 11:47

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Dave_

>> spending hours typing in programmes on their Spectrum that were printed in the magazines

Oh heavens, yes. All in hexadecimal code too. I can remember copying a couple of pages of it out by hand and posting it to a friend, because a cassette would have cost too much to buy.

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New Tue 25 May 10 14:08

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Focusless

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10153286.stm

"The Pac-Man game Google put on its home page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study."

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New Thu 27 May 10 16:07

Pacman 30... check out Google... - R.P.

www.neave.com/games/spaceinvaders/

There you are Iffy.

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New Thu 27 May 10 16:25

Pacman 30... check out Google... - Iffy

...there you are iffy...

PU,

Thanks very much, although Zero posted a link to a similar version of the game further up the thread.

www.spaceinvaders.de/

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New Thu 27 May 10 17:07

Pacman 30... check out Google... - rtj70

People should check out MAME, the arcade emulator. You could probably run this on most smartphones* as well as the obvious PC/Mac/Linux versions.

* iPhones do not allow the use of emulators because Apple says you can't have emulators.

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