Google doodles

Pete Zicato • May 21, 2010 12:26 pm
I thought there was a thread for this, but I didn't find it.

Google doodles are the artwork created out of the Google logo that they use on holidays and other days of note.

Today's artwork is fun (for a little at least). It must be the anniversary of pac-man. Let the page sit for a few seconds to see the animation.
Beest • May 21, 2010 1:06 pm
It's not just an animation, you can play it, cursor keys to move.
Shawnee123 • May 21, 2010 2:47 pm
Yes indeedy, Pac-man is 30!

I have a strong memory of being at my friend's house, and her younger brother coming in and telling us a story about this game at (probably) Krogers. He explained it in detail. Weird to think about it now, having never heard of it before, never really seeing those kinds of games, even at the arcade at the county fair, and now it's an icon.

And, it's one of those games I never was any good at.

Still, Happy Birthday Pac-man! I credit you with helping to pave the way to the many console and computer games I've fallen in love with over the years!

wacka wacka wacka

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/21/pac-man.game.anniversary/index.html?hpt=C1
lumberjim • May 21, 2010 3:09 pm
only works in IE for me, but I still suck at it too
Flint • May 21, 2010 7:33 pm
Beest;657719 wrote:
It's not just an animation, you can play it, cursor keys to move.
If you click insert coin (where the feeling lucky button usually is) after the game starts, it restarts with a Ms. Pac Man on the board as well.

But if the ghosts get her, you die too. So...
Shawnee123 • May 21, 2010 9:38 pm
So...

Mr Pac-man was the first virtual chivalrous man.
lumberjim • May 21, 2010 9:44 pm
Flint;657791 wrote:
If you click insert coin (where the feeling lucky button usually is) after the game starts, it restarts with a Ms. Pac Man on the board as well.

But if the ghosts get her, you die too. So...


use w a d z to control mrs pacman, arrows to control mr. see how well you do playing both at once!
Pete Zicato • May 25, 2010 11:26 am
Some company estimates that millions of man hours got wasted on Google's pacman doodle.
casimendocina • Jun 2, 2010 8:25 am
Went to see the Mountain Goats a couple of months ago in an old warehouse which has been a fairly basic venue (concrete floors, festival posters on the wall, bar stools and that's about it) for about the last 15 years. As always there was loads of time before the main act started, but there was a pac-man machine so we played until we ran out of coins (sadly we only had $3.00 in coins between us so the pac-man games didn't last long given how crap we were at it). Apart from the Mountain Goats singing Dance Music , it was the highlight of the evening.
Pete Zicato • Jun 8, 2010 4:32 pm
Search for "world cup 2010" in google. Now scroll to the bottom of the screen and take a look at the Google logo.
Pie • Jun 8, 2010 4:44 pm
<snork!>
monster • Jun 8, 2010 10:10 pm
ha! sweet.
phillipdunlap18 • Jun 16, 2010 1:17 am
The first Google Doodle was to the Burning Man Festival of 1998. The doodle was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence
Pete Zicato • Feb 8, 2011 10:15 am
There's a new Google doodle to play with today. Use your arrow keys to play submarine.
TheMercenary • Feb 9, 2011 1:57 pm
Pete Zicato;710440 wrote:
There's a new Google doodle to play with today. Use your arrow keys to play submarine.

It was pretty cool... I thought there might be more to it but I didn't spend to much time on it.

And now this comes out..:3eye:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0208/Jules-Verne-on-Google-Can-you-find-all-the-hidden-treasures
infinite monkey • Jun 9, 2011 8:46 am
You musicians might like today's google doodle, you can play it and even record what you played! I wrote a song. It wasn't very good.

http://www.google.com/
infinite monkey • Jun 21, 2011 9:27 am
Takashi Murakami

First Day of Summer
glatt • Jun 21, 2011 9:37 am
Yeah.
Happy summer solstice! Have you hugged a boulder today?
infinite monkey • Jun 21, 2011 10:34 am
No, but I'm feeling bolder today. ;)
monster • Jun 21, 2011 12:50 pm
ur just stoned
infinite monkey • Jul 22, 2011 9:05 am
I love this one, in honor of Alexander Calder's 113th birthday.

www.google.com
infinite monkey • Nov 18, 2011 8:54 am
Louis Daguerre's 224th birthday.
infinite monkey • Nov 18, 2011 11:38 am
Google: check your PM
glatt • Nov 18, 2011 11:40 am
That Google doodle is a little disconcerting. It looks like everyone in the family has had their brains blown out.
infinite monkey • Nov 18, 2011 11:55 am
omg it does!

Early Surrealism
BigV • Nov 18, 2011 1:23 pm
Even Daguerreotypes cannot see into your mind.
monster • Nov 19, 2011 5:26 pm
Google: I was so happy to get your text about your latest doodle
Beest • Nov 21, 2011 11:12 am
Google 'do a barrel roll'
BigV • Nov 21, 2011 11:23 am
!!!!!!!!!

awesome. this is what you get when you have waaaaaay too much time and brains on your hands.
infinite monkey • Nov 21, 2011 11:26 am
Googly easter eggs:

http://mashable.com/2011/11/03/google-easter-eggs-2/
infinite monkey • Nov 21, 2011 11:37 am
Speaking of Google, is anyone else tired of seeing that Kevin Spacey look alike looking sadly at you from every page?
BigV • Nov 21, 2011 12:05 pm
infinite monkey;774502 wrote:
Speaking of Google, is anyone else tired of seeing that Kevin Spacey look alike looking sadly at you from every page?


are you speaking of wikipedia?
infinite monkey • Nov 21, 2011 12:15 pm
Oh, yeah.
infinite monkey • Feb 7, 2012 2:34 pm
Googly Doodly

Charles Dickens' 200th birthday, guv'ner.
Sundae • Feb 7, 2012 3:15 pm
That one ittirated me.
It's Mary Poppins rather than Charles Dickens.
infinite monkey • Feb 7, 2012 3:22 pm
Sundae;793489 wrote:
That one ittirated me.
It's Mary Poppins rather than Charles Dickens.


Could you reiterate? Or reittirate? ;)
Sundae • Feb 7, 2012 3:35 pm
Don't itterate me. You won't like me when I'm nargy.
jimhelm • Feb 7, 2012 7:48 pm
I think you're Lidexic