{"id":37029,"date":"2025-10-30T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/google-marks-pac-mans-45th-anniversary-with-a-halloween-doodle\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:41:48","slug":"google-marks-pac-mans-45th-anniversary-with-a-halloween-doodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/google-marks-pac-mans-45th-anniversary-with-a-halloween-doodle\/","title":{"rendered":"Google marks Pac-Man\u2019s 45th anniversary with a Halloween Doodle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dataconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Google_Doodle_celebrates_Pac-Man_s_45th_with_Halloween_maze.jpeg\" alt=\"Google marks Pac-Man\u2019s 45th anniversary with a Halloween Doodle\" title=\"Google marks Pac-Man\u2019s 45th anniversary with a Halloween Doodle\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google celebrates Pac-Man\u2019s 45th anniversary with a Halloween-themed Doodle, featuring four haunted-house mazes designed by Bandai Namco Entertainment for play on October 30 and 31.<\/p>\n<p>Players control Pac-Man, navigating mazes to consume all dots while avoiding the Ghost Gang: Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde. Maze designs reflect individual ghost behaviors; for example, Blinky, the red ghost, directly pursues Pac-Man, while others attempt to corner him. Collecting a Power Pallet enables a temporary phase where Pac-Man can chase and consume the ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>The game is accessible via the Google homepage on desktop or the Google app on both Android and iOS mobile platforms. Desktop users maneuver Pac-Man using keyboard arrow keys. Mobile users control Pac-Man by swiping or pressing and moving a finger to change direction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured image credit<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google celebrates Pac-Man\u2019s 45th anniversary with a Halloween-themed Doodle, featuring four haunted-house mazes designed by Bandai Namco Entertainment for play on October 30 and 31. Players control Pac-Man, navigating mazes to consume all dots while avoiding the Ghost Gang: Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde. Maze designs reflect individual ghost behaviors; for example, Blinky, the red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technologies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}