To celebrate the anniversary, Namco has released championship editions for Apple's iPhone and iPad. There's a light-hearted, human touch to both of them.' They're both deceptively straightforward, carefully hiding their complexity under the hood. 'Pac-Man seems like a natural fit for the Google homepage. 'Google doodler Ryan Germick and I made sure to include Pac-Man's original game logic, graphics and sounds, bring back ghosts' individual personalities, and even recreate original bugs from this 1980's masterpiece,' said Marcin Wichary, senior user experience designer at Google and co-creator of the Pac-Man doodle. Visitors can click on the 'insert coin' button or wait 10 seconds to automatically start the game, which reaches 256 levels. ET today (midnight in Japan), Google turned its homepage over to a Pac-Man game that can be played for the next 48 hours. To help recognize the pop culture mainstay, at 11 a.m. Now the game is listed by Guinness World Records as the world's most successful coin-operated game. 'Paku' is the Japanese sound for 'chomp.'

The name of the game comes from the sound of eating, according to the official Pac-Man website. in October 1980 and went on to sell more than 100,000 units in its first year of production. Originally called Puck Man, Pac-Man launched in the U.S. On the now-iconic Pac-Man game was released in Japan by Namco Bandai Games. And to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic video arcade game, Google has unveiled its first-ever interactive doodle – a Pac-Man game that Web users can play straight from Google's homepage.

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