Today on the Internet, the Google Maps team pushed out one of the greatest, if not the greatest, April Fools' Day easter eggs in history. While you're perusing a map in the browser, you can click on a Pac-Man icon in the lower left corner. Doing so lets you play Pac-Man right there in Google Maps, using real locations as your levels. You can run the little guy up and down city streets, gobbling up little dots while the ghosts give chase. Frankly, it's amazing.
We decided to scan Google Maps for the most mind-bending Pac-Man locations in the WIRED editorial world. We're based in San Francisco, but news editor Emily Dreyfuss does her thing in Boston, and there's a rag-tag crew of editorial types banging on keyboards in New York City. So we picked five maps from each city where WIRED has an office: five in SF, five in Boston, and five in NYC. Plus, there's a bonus level in the mix for those of you who just want to set the highest score possible and clear level after level after level. You're welcome.
Page through the gallery above to see some real-world locations transformed into chaotic Pac-Man insanity.
You may notice that there are some obvious locations missing from the list. That's because Google Maps Pac-Man can't make a board in some spots (Coit Tower is one of them). In other cases, we just didn't think of them. So if you've found another crazy Google Maps Pac-Man setup in our fair cities or yours, please tell us about it in the comments.
