Hovering over the banner shows you the theme of this initiative - Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles: Pac-Man (2010). It shows the second ‘O' in ‘Google' turning into Pac-Man as the first ‘O' changes into a grid of dots, which the Pac-Man eats. The Google banner has once again been animated to fall in line with the theme, which is Pac-Man for today, May 8. The Popular Google Doodle Games series was meant to showcase 10 games from the past, and now, all ten have been published. This game was first published as a Google Doodle in 2010 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man. The latest doodle in this series for Friday, May 8, is the age old beloved game, Pac-Man. With its ‘Popular Google Doodle Games' initiative, the company wants to promote gaming while staying indoors. Because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, nations across the globe have imposed lockdowns and people are confined to their homes to prevent the spread of the virus.
After all, having happy employees is a good thing.Popular Google Doodle Games is a series of interactive Google Doodle published by the search giant in an attempt to keep people entertained while they stay home. Still, I suspect that many, many more people had a great time with the Google experiment, and I bet even most businesses didn't mind too much. And some companies and government agencies surely had to figure out how to disable Google's home page because of policies banning game playing at work. Later in the day, Google modified the game so that the sound could be turned off, but before that happened, a lot of people certainly struggled with that.
What's more interesting to me is how much time people lost because other people were playing Pac-Man, or because they couldn't figure out how to stop the game from running automatically and playing its theme music.Īfter I wrote about the release of the remake, I got a flood of e-mails from people complaining that they couldn't figure out how to shut off the game, and the music.
Clearly, that number is an average, and so it masks that fact that some people probably lost most of their day Friday to Google's remake of the 30-year-old game. After all, how much time does the average person spend not doing work when other time-sucks come along, like presidential elections, sports championships, "Lost" finales, the death of celebrities like Michael Jackson, and so on. Still, it's hard to get too worked up over 36 extra seconds of time someone might have spent on Google.
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