google doodles

[d000hg]

For those who are interested, it's implemented in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

You can tell.

[threaded]

2470 on my first and only attempt. I don't like playing computer games.

[Sysman]

2450 is my best so far

Wish they'd do Defender...

For those who are interested, it's implemented in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

No Flash.

[Sysman]

For someone who was in to computers, lived by the seaside and played video games seriously as a kid, the one game I couldn't do was Defender!!

For the life of me, I just couldn't do it!

But this....

... crashed Safari.

Crash report sent to Apple

[Sysman]

Adventure™ I used to spend hours playing this, feck me I was easily pleased as a kid.

Here's an opportunity to waste yet further hours on it

Someone has dug up the original source code for that. There's also an OS X version available there.

[Sysman]

I managed to do a bit better once I realised that I could use the cursor keys to control it

The cursor keys were the first thing I tried - probably a memory of the time before I had a mouse

Time for a new keyboard here; those cursor keys aren't always responding, which is a bit fatal for games.

[Sysman]

For those who are interested, it's implemented in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

How do they do the sound?

[threaded]

Google's Pac-Man logo cost $120 mn to economy

[NickFitz]

Google's Pac-Man logo cost $120 mn to economy

The same press release, rewritten by a source closer to home a day earlier.

I mean, the Hindustani Times FFS?

[Sysman]

The same press release, rewritten by a source closer to home a day earlier.

I mean, the Hindustani Times FFS?

To be fair, the Hindustani Times version contained more information, including the URL Google has put it on for posterity, and it mentioned the Telegraph.

"Due to popular demand, we're making it permanently available at google.com/pacman ," she was quoted as saying.