{"id":658,"date":"2010-05-21T10:13:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2010-05-21T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T19:44:40","slug":"the-playable-pac-man-google-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/658\/the-playable-pac-man-google-logo","title":{"rendered":"The Playable <em>Pac-Man<\/em> Google Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/google_pacman.png' alt='Pac-Man 30th Anniversary Google Doodle' class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In honor of <em>Pac-Man&#8217;s<\/em> 30th anniversary, Google has created its most amazing Google Doodle yet: a playable browser-based version of Pac-Man in the usual Google logo space.  They did an excellent job, complete with authentic graphics, sounds, and scoring.<\/p>\n<p>When you first go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>, you&#8217;ll see a static image.  Wait a few seconds and the page will reload with a hybrid JavaScript\/Flash application (it uses Flash for sound) that brings the Google logo to life.  Excellent work, Google!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. If anyone figures out how to save a playable version of the game, let me know.  I haven&#8217;t had to time to dig into it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Pac-Man&#8217;s 30th anniversary, Google has created its most amazing Google Doodle yet: a playable browser-based version of Pac-Man in the usual Google logo space. They did an excellent job, complete with authentic graphics, sounds, and scoring. When you first go to Google, you&#8217;ll see a static image. Wait a few seconds and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}