Monday, May 10, 2004

PacManhattan

Live action PacMan, played on several square blocks in Manhattan. This video made me smile.

It's amazing how difficult it is to translate Pacman into reality. One challenge is allowing pacman to know where all the ghosts are, without the ghosts knowing where pacman is. This requires (apparently) a great deal of technology and organization. Ironically, it seems the amount of data processing required to play pacman in real life (cell-phones and software for player-tracking) far surpasses that required by the original computer game.

PacVan anyone?

P.S. You can play a Flash version of pacman (and several other vintage games) here.

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