In what's probably an early April Fool's Easter Egg, Google Maps now sports a PacMan mode, which lets you turn local streets into an '80s arcade game. The map above shows the area around Boylston and Tremont. Look for the PacMan button in the lower left of the full-screen desktop Google Maps (it's not there in the "classic" maps).
Via Nick Barber.
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"Ever get the feeling other drivers are out to get you?"
By spin o rama
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 12:33pm
Only in Arlington. And only one driver to be honest.
A Woburn driver that Arlington police refuse to identify
By Markk02474
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 3:27pm
http://patch.com/massachusetts/arlington/arlington...
Is there a layer whereby
By roadman
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 12:58pm
PacMan can devour all the Route 128 signs south of Peabody?
Harvard Square is an advanced
By anon
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 1:21pm
Harvard Square is an advanced level. All those paths in Harvard Yard, and roads at odd angles that are hard to turn down.
I tried Kenmore Square
By anon
Wed, 04/01/2015 - 1:28am
and got stuck on the onramp to the Bowker Overpass in a switchback pattern with a ghost in hot pursuit going the opposite way.
It did not end well.
I couldn't get it to work
By lbb
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 1:45pm
Couldn't find the pin or map option. Is there some secret thingy?
This is what you are looking for
By cybah
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 5:40pm
[IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/2jg04tw.jpg[/IMG]
You can't use "google maps classic' mode with this, and your screen resolution and/or browser window size must be at least 1024x768 in size (because if you shrink the window small the option disappears and is unavailable)
To tell if you are in classic mode along with some helpful link at the bottom, click here.
Some older/slower computers default to classic because google has determined classic maps is faster for that computer. And for a while the "new G Maps" was an 'option' that you selected, so many people switched back to classic and never switched to the new maps. (I was one until I got a new computer a few months ago).
/techsupport
An aside
By ElizaLeila
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 6:04pm
I hate the new google maps when using my netbook. The screen real estate is just inundated with all the extra windows and BS.
you can still use classic!
By anon
Wed, 04/01/2015 - 5:49pm
I do because I am frustrated by the same things you are.
The teeeeny little questionmark bubble down at the bottom will allow you to switch back. I then just bookmarked the address it directs you to, and all done.
https://maps.google.com/maps?dg=optperm&output=cla...
Yup
By ElizaLeila
Thu, 04/02/2015 - 9:59am
I'm fully aware of that, but your suggestion will be helpful for those who aren't. So thanks.
I've been doing just this at work, even clicking on Yes at the the 'remember this for future times?' question. This latter never seems to stick. That monitor is gigantic, so I'm reluctantly allowing it to stay with the new (occasionally), but I hate it nonetheless.
oops - just saw your suggestion for bookmarking ... will try that.
Be careful
By JohnAKeith
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 2:24pm
Me and Ms. Pacman went out earlier on one of the roads in our neighborhood. She got mugged.
Damn ghosts!
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 3:32pm
Damn ghosts!
Such pejorative language!
By Dot net
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 4:43pm
Such pejorative language against the alleged!
http://www.rsdb.org/slur/ghost
On the other hand ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 03/31/2015 - 4:49pm
"Spook" is similarly problematic.
http://www.rsdb.org/slur/spook
Did this in my neighborhood- East Watertown
By The Beer Guy
Wed, 04/01/2015 - 8:07am
but there's some sort of glitch. When I eat the power pellet, the ghosts turn into Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and instead of eating them, I have to run them over.
At first I amused myself with
By Rob
Fri, 04/03/2015 - 3:55am
At first I amused myself with a simple, dense grid of straight streets at right angles - South Boston.
Then I really had fun with it centered on an area of curved streets - Morrissey Blvd, Grampian Way & the Savin Hill area.
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