Pac-Man has been ported to a lot of different systems. Now, it seems like he's been ported to the coffee table. Designed by Kiran Hungin, this Pac-Man coffee table mosaic features a detailed close-up, sacrificing the lion's share of the maze's empty space to focus on more critical features, like the misproportioned ghost pen and a non-canonical yellow ghost. If these little inaccuracies don't bug you, you can actually purchase the table from the U.K. version of Etsy, Folksy. It's not exactly cheap though, at a price of around $360. Still, it's certainly unique, that is of course, unless you just go and make your own.
Got your eyes on a Pac-Man world record? Well, your already unrealistic dreams just got a little more unrealistic. Dave Race of Ohio just recently blew the old world record out of the water by completing a perfect game in 3 hours, 33 minutes and 12.69 seconds. That's almost a full minute (55.31 seconds) faster than the previous record, also held by Race. Basically, if you're not Dave Race, good luck.
This neat-looking Pac-Man watch, entitled Pac-in-time, is a concept by Benedetto Papi. So, although it doesn't actually exist, we can sure hope that it might. It's an extremely stark thing and I'm really digging the simplicity. The only problem is that I can't exactly figure out how it works. Obviously it tells time by the Pac-Man death animation, but beyond that, I don't get it. You can tell which is the minute hand and which is the hour hand by where the yellow is, I guess, but do Pac-Man's daily deaths just correspond with the arbitrary times that the hands cross, like 5:37-ish or 9:48ish? It seems like it'd be cooler if he died on the hour or something, but it's just a concept, so who knows how it'd work if it ever actually gets made.
Come on Namco. It's pretty hard to pass up another opportunity to monetize Pac-Man.
The World's Biggest PAC-MAN website is operating under a fairly descriptive moniker. It allows people to play what can only possibly be described as, you guessed it, the world's largest game of Pac-Man. As we often find with neat browser games, web design team Soap Creative used HTML5 to get World's Biggest PAC-MAN up and running. The game connects user-created Pac-Man levels--ranging anywhere from ridiculously easy, to extravagantly difficult, to the obligatory genitalia-themed mazes--and allows users to dump all of their workday productivity into a Pac-Man world so large that it requires a world map.
