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'Pac-Man' Alive and Chomping in Your Browser, This Minute

by Ben Deitz on August 30, 2010 at 05:00 PM

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As much as we love new gaming experiences, sometimes we hanker for the classic games of our distant youth. Luckily, many of these can be revisited in browser-based iterations. This week, we'll take a look at timeless classics that are always worth wasted productivity. If you haven't played these in a few years, or if (heaven forbid) you've never undertaken them, then what are you waiting for?
We really don't need to get into this, do we? For those who (inexplicably) aren't familiar with 'Pac-Man,' players control a giant yellow mouth with a voracious hunger for pellets, fruits and, sometimes, even the ghosts that pursue him through a multi-colored maze. Now that that's out of the way, how about some Pac-trivia? Did you know that Pac-Man was named after the onomatopoeic Japanese word for eating, paku-paku? Or that Pac-Man's wife, Ms. Pac-Man, is named Pepper? How about that Pac's ghost pursuers are called Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde? Fascinating stuff, we know.

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