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Google Squeezed Pac-Man Into a Halloween Doodle. Dare You to Play It
Google’s Halloween-themed PAC-MAN Doodle features eight haunted house levels and celebrates the game’s 45th anniversary with classic gameplay and spooky visuals.
- On Oct. 30, Google placed a fully playable Halloween-themed PAC-MAN game on google.com, available only today and tomorrow, Oct. 31.
- This year, to mark PAC-MAN's 45th anniversary, Google released the Halloween-themed Doodle to align with Halloween arriving tomorrow.
- According to Google, the Halloween variant features eight levels with four haunted-house mazes, preserving classic PAC-MAN mechanics and including the four ghosts Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde with "Power Pellet" gameplay.
- Because the Doodle runs briefly, users who use the browser address bar might miss it on google.com, so Google says to try it now before it disappears after Oct. 31.
- Google partnered with Bandi Namco Entertainment, PAC-MAN's parent company, and used retro visuals and lack of 4K pixels to evoke an authentic arcade aesthetic.
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Google surprised users with an interactive doodle celebrating Halloween 2025 and pays tribute to one of the most remembered icons of video games: Pac-Man, also known as Come-Come. The game was 45 years old and, to celebrate it, Google launched a thematic version in collaboration with Bandai Namco Entertainment, the character's creator. The special edition of the doodle will be available on the search engine's main page on Thursday 30 and Friday …
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