World's Biggest Pac-Man Game Through HTML5

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Looking for something to do because it's Independence Day and there are no aliens to fight? How about some ghosts? waka waka waka...

Thanks to the wonders of HTML5, you are now able to play the world's biggest game of Pac-Man right from your modern browser. It's a long weekend, after all (for at least some of you, that is).

This monolithic Pac-Man game is the product of Soap Interactive, who developed this awesome piece of web software in conjunction with Microsoft. To make it legit and official, it even has the blessing of Namco Bandai.

If you've ever found that the single board of Pac-Man was too limiting for your "free roaming game world" sensibilities of modern gaming, then this game is for you.

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
24 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Happy birthday to this "news"
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  • rohitbaran
    Cool! Brings back the memories of the 8 bit era!
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  • cloakster
    K-SpinHappy birthday to this "news"I actually really like Tomshardware for how much they consider 'news' cuz i would never find awesome stuff like this :)
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  • gm0n3y
    Must stop playing now if I want to get any work done today (not in the US).
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  • cookoy
    brings back old memories, playing on ancient Apple II and XT clones
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  • jhansonxi
    M$ involvement and yet no ActiveX? I'm shocked.
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  • mister g
    jhansonxiM$ involvement and yet no ActiveX? I'm shocked.hey even Microsoft like HTML5 and would use it if necessary. If Microsoft also wanted good PR they wouldn't limit this to IE and would want it to be playable on any browser.
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  • jhansonxi
    mister ghey even Microsoft like HTML5 and would use it if necessary. If Microsoft also wanted good PR they wouldn't limit this to IE and would want it to be playable on any browser.It worked in Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu when I tried it.
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  • jurassic512
    works with Google Chrome too.
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  • TunaSoda
    Works fine in FF5
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