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[CodeRedR51]

Pac-Man on Google Maps.

Yes, they did.

https://www.google.com/maps <-- click the packman icon lower left.

 

[True-blue-8]

This, oh wow, is brilliant

 

[AudiMan2011]

A little bit early for Google's April Fools Joke?

 

[R5]

A little bit early for Google's April Fools Joke?

If it's this good, it's never too early

 

[DG_Silva]

I just had a go myself, works brilliantly. You need to give it somewhere with a decent amount of roads though...

 

[Terronium-12]

There's a bit of input delay but that's just awesome.

 

[R5]

Just had a thought. Pacman on the Stelvio Pass anyone?

 

[AOS-]

I was hoping you could place through 3 or 4 blocks of a city. That would've been dope.

 

[Pupik]

Here's what I've found so far:

Monte Carlo
Rome
Vatican
Swindon, Great Britian (Magic Roundabout)
Manhattan
Taj Mahal
Savannah, Georgia (yikes!)

Stelvio Pass isn't one of them, unfortunately. It seems you need a mix of grid-like patterns for streets for it to work.

 

[terminator363]

Magic roundabout, Swindon. /thread

 

[Liquid]

Wonder if it works on racetracks...

 

[Pupik]

Racing circuits don't work so well; there's no interconnecting roads.

Sebring, kind of.

Road Atlanta gives you just the chicane.

Laguna Seca's infield.

Just outside of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, there's a neighborhood. Seems the track and infield might be okay, but it doesn't work.

Large airport complexes like LAX seem to be tricky. Atlanta's terminal access roads are tough, too.

 

[Akmuq]

This feature from Google is just putting images of a giant game of Pac Man happening on the streets of my city or in my neighbourhood. It's fantastic.

 

[W3H5]

It's not working for me.

 

[JMoney]

I'm finding the park areas in Washington DC to be challenging.

 

[Robin]

Pretty neat how they have done it but Google maps itself is such a resource hog now since they the total redesign, it used to work smoothly but now it a stuttering mess full of stuff I don't need to see like pictures of the places I click!

 

[Pupik]

Pretty neat how they have done it but Google maps itself is such a resource hog now since they the total redesign...

Try this -> http://www.google.com/maps?t=m&output=classic
Or this -> http://www.google.co.uk/maps?t=m&output=classic
Or this -> http://www.google.ca/maps?t=m&output=classic

If you live in China -> http://www.mapquest.com

 

[Robin]

Try this -> http://www.google.com/maps?t=m&output=classic
Or this -> http://www.google.co.uk/maps?t=m&output=classic
Or this -> http://www.google.ca/maps?t=m&output=classic

Wow, never knew you could do that, thank you! 👍

 

[Pupik]

No problem, but no Pac-Man on the classic maps.

 

[Barra333]

This is brilliant! I have just tried Amsterdam and Den Helder. Knowing which way to turn at some intersections is tough.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Wonder if it works on racetracks...

Some NASCAR tracks work.

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-me...ar-sprint-cup-series-race-tracks-pac-man.html

 

[Crash]

Neat. Thanks for posting that. I tried a couple of games with all diagonal streets instead of up-down/left right, and timing and making the Pac-Man go diagonal is surprisingly hard.

 

[nascarfan1400]

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[CodeRedR51]

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-me...ar-sprint-cup-series-race-tracks-pac-man.html

THis is awesome ^

Look two posts up...

 

[nascarfan1400]

Look two posts up...

/)_- Sorry

 

[The Chosen One]

INB4 Nurburgring Pac-man...