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Google Maps Includes Pac-Man Feature in Honor of April Fools Day

By Victoria Lubas
FEATURES EDITOR

Have you ever dreamed of being a circular, yellow character that wanders the city streets eating every ghost and cherry in sight?

Google Maps allows users to play Pac-Man on their maps in honor of April Fools Day. Photo Credit: Google Maps

Google Maps allows users to play Pac-Man on their maps in honor of April Fools Day.
Photo Credit: Google Maps

You can now do just that thanks to Google Maps’s new Pac-Man feature, which lets you play Pac-Man using the streets of cities as levels.

From San Francisco and New York City’s Times Square, to Paris and Madrid, Pac-Man can roam the streets of whatever city you choose. You can even play in the center of your own town. Simply type in the name of the city you wish to roam in the search bar and click the Pac-Man option on the bottom left of your screen.

Google has made itdself notorious for its annual April Fools Day prank, including last year’s Google Map Pokémon Challenge,
but Google is not the only one getting into the spirit of April 1st.

Amazon.com joined in the fun by replacing its current homepage with its homepage from 1999.

PlayStation also jokingly announced the introduction of PlayStation Flow- wearable, underwater technology to allow you to take the game to the swimming pool and fully experience any aquatic aspects of the game.

Even Petco announced the introduction of the Selfie Stick Harness for dogs.

With all these light-hearted and fun pranks taking place this year, the only question remaining is how all these companies will outdo themselves in 2016.

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