Today the Google home page has a playable version of Pacman on it. That’s cool, but unfortunately it also takes my idea for an easter egg on www.mozilla.org. Oh well, I’ll just have to think of something else.
I was a few years ahead of Google on Pacman in the browser though. This has reminded me of a couple of articles that Brian King and I wrote in 2000 about creating a Pacman clone out of XUL. Enjoy the screenshot of the retro video game inside the retro Mozilla interface below.
Update: I checked my mail after posting this and saw that three people had written to webmaster at mozilla dot org complaining about the game noise that was now coming out of their browser and saying they were going to uninstall Firefox if it didn’t stop. Interesting unintended consequences…
Dude, it lives – http://games.mozdev.org/pagman/. Well, not quite, I doubt it is compatible with any modern browser but would be a fun hacking project to get it working again.
Lol, so THAT’s the sirens someone complained about at SUMO.
Lol… People never cease to amaze me. Today I found yet another dude that didn’t know that middle clicking a link opens it in a new tab…
Someone needs to fix https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+makes+random+sounds so it doesn’t ask you to login to see it.
The number of people reporting this as a “problem” in Firefox support forums is astounding.
Good luck if they try to uninstall IE too… just verified the game is fully functional, sound and music included, there too.
Thanks to Google, I’m seeing a wave of people complaining on ‘strange sounds’ when starting their browsers. I wish to see this becoming an hot question on SUMO this week!
Which version of Mozilla was that? I can’t quite read the Build ID, even on the larger image.
Good question. From the screenshot my guess is 2000071020. I’ll look around in my notes and see if I still have any of this stuff still around to check.
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