But having multiple outlets blog about it or say to their buddies: 'Did you play PAC-MAN on Google today?' most likely brought in substantial traffic to their site, which does make money. Turning this more business related: Google doesn't make their money from their homepage- If you went to to search for something or use a different Google function, and got caught up in PAC-MAN for a length of time (I know I did), then Google is losing out on potential revenue via advertisements and links. Hint: Press 'Insert Coin' to get started, press it twice for Mrs. If you missed the Google tribute to PAC-MAN, you can still play the game at: If you are unfamiliar of the game-play, here's a great description provided by the PAC-MAN Web site: 'The player controls PAC-MAN while attempting to eat all the dots in the maze and avoid getting caught by the ghosts through an extremely simple user interface consisting only of a single joystick.' PAC-MAN was also in the 2010 Guinness Book of World Records: Gaming Edition for the best known Video Game Character of all time, so chances are pretty good that you know who and what I am talking about. I can remember playing PAC-MAN when I was a child, eating the fruit, chasing ghosts after eating the 'power pellet', and trying not to get captured by them when they turned back to their colorful origins.

They created a playable Google Doodle of PAC-MAN, for the 30th Anniversary of the game. Google has done it again- only this time, it was better than ever.

Pac man doodle