Beautiful Google Doodle

Title: Google's 11th Birthday

Date: Sep 27, 2009

Location: Global

Tags: Quirky, Birthday, Technology

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Title: David Unaipon's 140th Birthday

Date: Sep 28, 2012

Location: Australia

Tags: patent, Sciences, shearing machine, invention, Birthday, Technology

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Title: 46th Anniversary of Star Trek's 1st Broadcast

Date: Sep 8, 2012

Location: Global

Tags: Pop Culture, Uhura, go boldly, Art, Captain Kirk, Sulu, Enterprise, photon, television, Red Shirt, Animation, Spock, Bones, transporter, Technology, Gorn, tribbles

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Title: Invention of the Bar Code

Date: Oct 7, 2009

Location: Global

Tags: Sciences, Technology, Quirky

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Title: Google Beta

Date: Oct 29, 1998

Location: Global

Tags: Beta, Technology

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Title: Discovery of X-rays

Date: Nov 8, 2010

Location: Global

Tags: Bones, Sciences, Animation, Technology

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Title: Anniversary of the 1st use of the Canadarm in space

Date: Nov 13, 2012

Location: Canada

Tags: Canada, Space, Robotics, astronaut, maple leaf, Earth, Technology

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Title: Alexander Popov's Invention of the Radio

Date: May 7, 2009

Location: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine

Tags: Sciences, Radio, Technology, History

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Title: Julius Richard Petri's 161st Birthday

Date: May 31, 2013

Location: Global

Tags: petri dish, Technology, bacteria, Sciences, Birthday, growth, mold, Animation

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Title: Emile Berliner's 160th Birthday

Date: May 20, 2011

Location: Austria, Germany, Switzerland

Tags: phonograph, record, disc, Music, Birthday, gramophone, Technology

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Title: 30th Anniversary of PAC-MAN

Date: May 21, 2010

Location: Global

Tags: Pop Culture, Pac-Man, Pacman, Pac Man, maze, ghosts, Video Game, Technology, Interactive

PLAY THE DOODLE

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Quoted from Marcin Wichary, senior UX designer and developer.

When I was growing up, my dad had the best job I could possibly imagine: he was an arcade game and pinball technician. For me, that meant summer trips through Poland’s coastal cities with their seasonal arcade parlors; peeking inside cabinets to learn programming and engineering secrets; and—of course—free games!

One of my favorites was PAC-MAN, whose popularity transcended the geopolitical barriers of that time. During the heyday of space shooters, Tōru Iwatani’s creation stood out as one of the first video games aimed at a broader audience, with a cute story of pizza-shaped character gobbling dots in a maze, colorful (literally!) characters, friendly design, very little violence and everlasting fun.

Today, on PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday, you can rediscover some of your 8-bit memories—or meet PAC-MAN for the first time—through our first-ever playable Google doodle. To play the game, go to google.com during the next 48 hours (because it’s too cool to keep for just one day) and either press the “Insert Coin” button or just wait for a few seconds.

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. We also added a little easter egg: if you throw in another coin, Ms. PAC-MAN joins the party and you can play together with someone else (PAC-MAN is controlled with arrow keys or by clicking on the maze, Ms. PAC-MAN using the WASD keys).


PAC-MAN seems like a natural fit for the Google homepage. They’re both deceptively straightforward, carefully hiding their complexity under the hood. There’s a light-hearted, human touch to both of them. And we can only hope you find using Google at least a quarter as enjoyable as eating dots and chasing ghosts. You know, without actually needing any quarters.

Title: Ruby Payne-Scott's 100th Birthday

Date: May 28, 2012

Location: Australia

Tags: Radar, Console, Space, Sun, Headphones, Sun Rays, Planet, Sciences, Cool Gal, Birthday, Glasses, Soundwaves, Technology, Cables, Reciever

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Title: Invention of the First Laser

Date: May 16, 2008

Location: Global

Tags: Historical Moment, Technology

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Title: Anniversary of the First Film Projection

Date: May 15, 2008

Location: Spain

Tags: Technology, Projector, Film

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Title: Frank Hornby's 150th Birthday

Date: May 15, 2013

Location: United Kingdom

Tags: toys, Art, Frank Hornby, Meccano, railways, cranes, Sciences, Birthday, Architecture, trains, Technology, History

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