{"id":14229,"date":"2011-07-20T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=14229"},"modified":"2011-07-20T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:04:08","slug":"one-billion-dots-and-counting-worlds-biggest-pac-manr-makes-record-breaking-gaming-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=14229","title":{"rendered":"ONE BILLION DOTS AND COUNTING &#8211; World&#8217;s biggest PAC-MAN(r) makes record-breaking gaming history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamersgame.com\/pics\/worlds_biggest_pacman.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>IN 1980<\/strong>\u2026.PAC-MAN<strong>\u00ae<\/strong> hit video arcades and it changed the face of video gaming forever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IN APRIL THIS YEAR<\/strong>\u2026 to celebrate the launch of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft teamed up with NAMCO BANDAI Games America to bring the <a href=\"http:\/\/worldsbiggestpacman.com\/\">world\u2019s biggest user-generated PAC-MAN<\/a><strong>\u00ae<\/strong> to players across the world, using the power of HTML5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TODAY<\/strong>\u2026. Internet Explorer 9 has driven a new PAC-MAN<strong>\u00ae<\/strong> milestone as the world\u2019s biggest PAC-MAN<strong>\u00ae<\/strong> game has reached a record-breaking ONE BILLION DOTS eaten by gamers from across the globe playing over 43 million times!<\/p>\n<p>The World\u2019s Biggest PAC-MAN<strong>\u00ae<\/strong> invites users to create and play their own mazes and those submitted by fans. The original PAC-MAN<strong>\u00ae<\/strong> had 240 PAC-dots, four power pellets and 255 mazes. Thirty-one years on, NAMCO BANDI and Microsoft have taken this legacy to new heights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Play now and be a part of web gaming history<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now played more than 43 million times by fans across the world and with 6,246,751 PAC-MAN<strong>\u00ae<\/strong> lives lost in the process, gamers can <a href=\"http:\/\/worldsbiggestpacman.com\/\">play PAC-MAN now<\/a> and celebrate the legacy as they work towards the next record-breaking milestone.<\/p>\n<p>The World\u2019s Biggest PAC-MAN<strong>\u00ae<\/strong> was created exclusively for Internet Explorer 9 to take advantage of modern web standards and hardware acceleration to provide PAC-MAN with the best playing experience on the web.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out these PAC-FACTS about the world\u2019s biggest user-generated PAC-MAN:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00b7 37 \u2013 the number of football fields the mazes would fill if laid side-by-side<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 6,246,751 \u2013 the number of times the loses a life sound has been heard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of issuing this release, over 1,000,202,800 dots had been consumed. Check out the latest stats from the World\u2019s Biggest PAC-MAN<strong>\u00ae<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/worldsbiggestpacman.com\/datavis\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet the brains behind the operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s biggest user-generated PAC-MAN<strong>\u00ae<\/strong> was developed in Australia by Sydney-based, award-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soapcreative.com\/\">Soap Creative<\/a> and Microsoft Australia. Thanks to Internet Explorer 9 players can experience the full performance and immersive experience of PAC-MAN<strong>\u00ae<\/strong> through HTML 5 &#8211; just like it\u2019s a native game on a PC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-AU\/internet-explorer\/products\/ie\/home\">Download Internet Explorer 9 now<\/a> to experience the beauty of the web and the power of HTML5 in action, to play the <a href=\"http:\/\/worldsbiggestpacman.com\/\">World\u2019s Biggest PAC-MAN<\/a> in all its glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN 1980\u2026.PAC-MAN\u00ae hit video arcades and it changed the face of video gaming forever. IN APRIL THIS YEAR\u2026 to celebrate the launch of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft teamed up with NAMCO BANDAI Games America to bring the world\u2019s biggest user-generated PAC-MAN\u00ae to players across the world, using the power of HTML5. TODAY\u2026. 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