Google Maps turns streets into Pac-Man game

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
From the White House to your own neighborhood, Google Maps allows you to transform streets into a playable Pac-Man grid.
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Google Maps has just become your new favorite arcade.

On Tuesday, Google Maps unveiled a fun new feature that allows users to transform streets into a playable Pac-Man grid. You can search a specific address or a larger, generic area, like a town or city.

But when you have the area on which you want to play, click the Pac-Man feature and it will turn those streets from this:

Into this:

The game then starts, with the lovable Pac-Man chomping down on pellets while his fiendish ghost enemies trail behind.

The Pac-Man Easter egg quickly became a trending topic on Twitter.

You can check out the fun new game at Google Maps.