![]() Though mobile users are limited to 15 locations Google have listed clues to the locations here desktop users can play the game in almost any city they like. London’s Soho! New York’s grid system! Edinburgh’s New Town! Just think of the Pac-Man possibilities embedded in those rows of Georgian streets and crescents. The programmers at Google, however, have given us a good reason to keep surfing: they’ve superimposed the video game classic Pac-Man on to various cities across the world. This is at least as much fun as the actual gameplay. Or rather, reimagine them as Pac-Man mazes. The most satisfying part of this link-up between two of the most simple yet addictive pieces of tech in modern history is what it does to the way you imagine cities. I never get past level one but, like the original, it’s all good clean fun, with a city break thrown in for free.īasically, the fun never ends. I zip around, wolfing down dots and pieces of fruit, dodging ghosts, and generally feeling as at home as a character in a Kurosawa film – if she looked like a pizza with a slice cut out. Appropriately, this tightly packed network of streets makes the world’s best Pac-Man maze. And the city holding the number one spot as the hardest city is. Then on to somewhere more happening – Meguro, the Tokyo ward where Pac-Man’s Japanese designer, Toru Iwatani, grew up. Think you’ve mastered Google Maps’ April Fools’ Day joke Here are the 9 hardest cities to beat the game in, in order. The only compensation? I make it to level three without so much as a swear word, and tot up more than 6,000 points. Basta andare sulle mappe di BigG, cliccare in basso a sinistra e inizia il divertimento. Use Google Maps to play a game of Pac-Man, generated from the roads you can find anywhere in the world. Basically, a Kafka-esque square that Pac-Man wanders round and round, halfheartedly eating dots and waiting for gentrification to arrive. Turns out I live in the world’s most boring Pac-Man postcode. First decision: where to go? After serious deliberation, I stick my own street into the search facility.
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