Tag: PAC-MAN

As bizarre (or impossible) as it sounds, 'Pac-Man' will soon be transformed into a live-action television show. According to Deadline, it will resemble 'Wipeout,' a highly physical, slapstick game show. The show commemorates the game's 30th anniversary, and should provide just as much brain-numbing enjoyment (or, at least, just brain-numbing) as the original. ...

Most video games offer some sort of escape from reality, but researchers at Stanford University are now working to inject actual life back into the gaming ecosystem -- one single-celled organism at a time. As NBC Bay Area reports, the scientists recently developed a series of games involving microscopic organisms, which players must move around various obstacle courses. Thus far, the team has ...

In what must have been an unimaginably painstaking ordeal, a creative team known as flyingpickles^NinjaMoped created this amazing stop-motion video homage to coin-operated video games. The dizzying clip consists entirely of coins, and touches upon arcade classics like 'Super Mario Bros.,' 'Pac-Man,' and (we think) 'Street Fighter.' And, yes, those are all coins. Check out the video, and be ...

'Pac-Man' is easily one of the most fetishized pieces of video game nostalgia. The game has shown up nearly everywhere, from the Google home page to the fashion runway, and has inspired political attack ads and special edition Moleskines. But far more impressive, from a technical standpoint, is Microscopic 'Pac-Man.' Developed by Japanese design professor Kotoro "dotimpact" Tanaka in celebration ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Maybe you heard about how Libya deleted that sexy URL shortening site Vb.ly? (It was like Bit.ly for porn links, but conservative Libya owns the .ly domain and wasn't into all the boobs -- or the pic of the site creator drinking a beer.) Well, ...

We can't tell what's more endearingly bizarre: French-Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond's freeze-frame, live-action game of 'Pac-Man,' or the game's 8-bit sound effects mimicked in a French accent. Head after the break, and decide for yourself. ...

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? ...

Cooperstown, New York and Ottumwa, Iowa will soon share an unbreakable bond -- as cities that host a hall of fame. According to USA Today, the International Video Game Hall of Fame will induct its first class of 29 members this weekend. The honored include the classic arcade game 'Pac-Man,' 'Mario' creator Shigeru Miyamoto, the Xbox design team, video game record holders Billy Mitchell and Steve ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. 'Ask Steve' reimagines everyone's favorite turtlenecked CEO as a Dear Abby daily newspaper columnist. [From: Me & Her] HTML5 experiments that pushthe limits of ...

The word "adorable" doesn't do justice to the telephone conversation you're about to hear. An old woman named Lorraine recently called a tech-support hotline to ask how to "disable" the annoyingly noisy Pac-Man display that Google embedded on its home page a couple weeks back. In a nearly six-minute back-and-forth with an incredibly patient guy named Brian, the elderly woman tries her darndest to ...

In celebration of PAC-MAN's 30th birthday, Google has resurrected the arcade classic for its home page. Users only need to click 'Insert Coin' or wait a few seconds for the ghoul-munching mayhem to begin. If you click the 'Insert Coin' button again, Ms. PAC-MAN magically appears so that you can play with a friend. (PAC-MAN is controlled with the mouse or arrow keys, while his lady moves with the ...

If you grew up playing 'Pac-Man,' 'Space Invaders,' and 'Pole Position,' you'd think that, with all those years of gameplay under your belt, you'd have a leg up on younger gamers. That is, until you get your ass shredded in 'Modern Warfare 2' by the mortar fire of a pipsqueak young enough to be your son. According to Wired, there's a reason for that. "The younger guys have much more refined ...

Thanks in part to some popular reality-TV shows, the boutique cake business has really taken off in recent years. Growing up, we were lucky to get a birthday cake with a few plastic soldiers or athletes standing in the thick frosting. But these days, people build edible replicas of everything from Hogwarts Castle to an old-school NES console. So what would be the perfect confectionery ...

In order to be a real dad, a man should be able to build something from scratch for his son. While most fathers build something lame and useless, like a wooden race car, Samuel Seide decided to make something his son would actually enjoy and use. With his miniature, made-from-scratch arcade machine, the boy is sure to be the envy of all the neighborhood kids. Judging by the video, Seide doesn't ...

Gamers, capable of epic button-mashing binges known to go on for hours, need that perfect place to park their butts. Ask any geek what the most important part of any good video game lair is, and they'll say it's the chair. A lounger needs to be stylish (so you can impress your friends who come over to play 'Halo 3'), and comfortable (so you're cheeks won't go numb during that last-minute drive on ...