Monday, September 8th, 2008
Awesome Time Waster: YUI Pacman!
Category: Yahoo!
Via the YUI Blog, Kris Cieslak has re-created the arcarde hit Pacman using the YUI JavaScript library:
Warning! Ghosts are very smart, they are spending most of the time trying to find where are you hiding and when they finally finds you, they run away :)
(one of the A.I. bug!)
Smart is an understatement! Either my fingers are super slow or these ghosts are just too darn good!
Go check it out and have some fun!
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4 rating from 23 votes
Great proof-of-concept, but not very playable. The game goes way too fast, and many of the subtleties of the original are absent. For instance in PacMan the Pac and Ghosts move at varying speeds depending on whether the Pac is eating, running down a clear path, or empowered… this greatly affects the Pac’s ability to outrun the ghosts (or not), thus many of the PacMan strategies we old-timers have embedded in our muscle memory are ineffective.
If the goal was to create a game that people will enjoy playing, then it’s a FAIL. But if the goal was to learn DHTML and impress a bunch of programmer nerds, huge WIN!!
I can only imagine the endless hours spent making this work… I’m very impressed. Can you try Centipede next?
wouldn’t this usually be reserved for a friday? ;-)
@naterkane Everyday is Friday at Ajaxian! ;)
Yeah! Now you’re talking. More articles like this please!!!
Awesome. Applaud the effort very much! Great to see the code too, doing something unique
Obviously not using arcade ROMs. :-)
Maybe with the new browsers we can get MAME in JavaScript.
I remember those days. Did you get mad when games started hitting $.50 and $.75? Its nice to see some of the old classics making a come back. Sure, the graphics weren’t the greatest by today’s standards, but the play ability was, to my thinking, much better.
I’d like to see Missile Command next :-)
@mdrisser I used to love Donkey Kong and the Popeye game. I spent WAY too much money on these games. Thank God for the Atari 2600. Saved my parents a fortune. :)
a good demonstration of what can be done without Flash
I prefer native technologies for web (js, css, html). Flash – this is not so interesting…
Nice version! I wrote my version of Pacman too using JS. Please visit my site in:
http://www.harryguillermo.com/
Thank you
I love these old games
wow its amazing what you can do with out using flash. All of the flash developers I know I will show this to them