Comments on: Awesome Time Waster: YUI Pacman!

By: lindaadams

lindaadams — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:10:10 +0000

wow its amazing what you can do with out using flash. All of the flash developers I know I will show this to them

By: Tribulus

Tribulus — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:00:04 +0000

I love these old games

By: hguillermo

hguillermo — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:57:14 +0000

Nice version! I wrote my version of Pacman too using JS. Please visit my site in:

http://www.harryguillermo.com/

Thank you

By: webflake

webflake — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:56:16 +0000

I prefer native technologies for web (js, css, html). Flash – this is not so interesting…

By: maximeguilbot

maximeguilbot — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:13:30 +0000

a good demonstration of what can be done without Flash

By: ReyBango

ReyBango — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:57:44 +0000

@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. :)

By: mdrisser

mdrisser — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:13:21 +0000

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 :-)

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:00:13 +0000

Obviously not using arcade ROMs. :-)

Maybe with the new browsers we can get MAME in JavaScript.

By: holts

holts — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:33:30 +0000

Awesome. Applaud the effort very much! Great to see the code too, doing something unique

By: WillPeavy

WillPeavy — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:00:33 +0000

Yeah! Now you’re talking. More articles like this please!!!

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:48:09 +0000

@naterkane Everyday is Friday at Ajaxian! ;)

By: naterkane

naterkane — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:46:01 +0000

wouldn’t this usually be reserved for a friday? ;-)

By: httpwebwitch

httpwebwitch — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:28:16 +0000

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?