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Hint: Press "Insert Coin" to get started, press it twice for Mrs. If you missed the Google tribute to PAC-MAN, you can still play the game at: If you are unfamiliar of the game-play, here's a great description provided by the PAC-MAN Web site: "The player controls PAC-MAN while attempting to eat all the dots in the maze and avoid getting caught by the ghosts through an extremely simple user interface consisting only of a single joystick." PAC-MAN was also in the 2010 Guinness Book of World Records: Gaming Edition for the best known Video Game Character of all time, so chances are pretty good that you know who and what I am talking about. I can remember playing PAC-MAN when I was a child, eating the fruit, chasing ghosts after eating the "power pellet", and trying not to get captured by them when they turned back to their colorful origins. They created a playable Google Doodle of PAC-MAN, for the 30th Anniversary of the game. Google has done it again- only this time, it was better than ever.
