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Pac Man widget killed by Namco
by Marc Perton Jul 11th 2005 at 8:22AM
Perhaps the fact that Chris Marks' Pac Man widget was the top Dashboard download on Apple's site is what killed it. Lawyers for Namco, which owns the rights to the old school game, apparently put the squeeze on both Apple and Marks' hosting provider, and now the widget is gone (at least "officially" — I know you can find a copy if you look hard enough). Hey, Namco: how about just licensing Marks' widget and slapping your logo on it? Clearly there's plenty of demand for it.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
