Tip: you can tap the key for the next direction in advance, e.g.Tip: just tap once the arrow key for the direction you want it to go you don't have to keep holding the key down.(You're supposed to be able to wait a few seconds and it'll start, but I found that a bit erratic.)* To start playing - click "Insert Coin".Your score ratchets up in the numbers top left. More little fruits on the right stack up when you've won games (you start with one for free). There are "back doors" on the left and right, run through those and you'll come out the other side.
Eat up all the dots, you get to start a new game (but with no extra lives, just the ones you had left before). For extra points eat (run over) the blinking fruit etc that appears in the middle sometimes. Sometimes the blue monsters flash to warn you that they're going to change back to their original colours, when they can eat you again. Eat a blinking pink dot and the monsters turn blue, and while they're blue they can't eat you but you can eat them instead (and get points for that), and their little eyes fly back to the central box to be reincarnated another time. In brief, eat up all the dots before you get eaten by the coloured monsters - some move faster than others, watch out for the red and pink ones! You have 3 lives.For those who've never played it before (and yes they do exist, like the friend whose question to me triggered this blog post), see the rules on game play in Wikipedia.The comments on his video typify a certain approach to technology which I feel is deplorable - rant follows at the end. I confess that like this guy I was initially stumped about how to play it as I tried dragging it with the mouse at first. Not so good news for the world's productivity, according to the BBC! You can carry on playing it here (or click the image above). Tweet It's excellent news that Google decided to keep their Pacman game going.
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