PHL competes in world's largest Pacman game

The Philippines made it to the top 50 list of high scorers and maze builders in the "World's Biggest Pac-Man" project, borne out of a tie-up between Namco-Bandai, the original game's creators, and Microsoft Australia to showcase the capabilities of Internet Explorer 9. The "World's Biggest Pac-Man" project has so far attracted considerable participation globally, not just in terms of playing the game but also in designing mazes for it. "Not content with redesigning Pacman.com we've gone one further and created The World's Largest PAC-MAN game. Launched at the MIX11 IE9 Keynote event in Las Vegas just (a week) ago, the game has become a huge hit. We've had over 20,000,000 pac-dots eaten and 1,400 mazes created from 80,000 visitors," Soap Creative, which set up the collaborative project, said in a blog post. As of Wednesday afternoon, the site (WorldsBiggestPacman.com) has seen 26,056,285 dots eaten; 1,363,964 lives lost; 2,932,578 ghosts eaten; 12,063 mazes created; and 2,433,172 mazes played and 138,609 mazes completed. The top three countries with the highest scores as of Wednesday afternoon were the United States (74.504 million); Brazil (30.473 million); and Spain (19,445 million). The Philippines ranked 37th with 817,232. According to Soap Creative, the project was born out of a collaboration between Pac-Man publisher Namco-Bandai and Microsoft Australia to help showcase the power of Microsoft's newest browser, Internet Explorer 9. Users can start at a maze and play the Pac-Man game by eating the dots while avoiding the monsters, just like in the classic game. But unlike the classic game, players who exit a maze do not enter a different point in the maze, but enter a different "connected" maze instead. — TJD, GMA News