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Anti-Pacman: Today's Time Waster

Anti-Pacman
When you play Pacman, do you ever find yourself identifying with the ghosts instead of the little yellow guy? Yeah, neither do we. But if you've ever wanted to play the part of the ghosts, now is your chance. Anti-Pacman is a Flash based game that lets you control the ghosts and chase after Pacman for once.

If 4 on 1 doesn't seem like a fair fight to you, you'd be right. Except it's a lot harder than you'd think to control four different ghosts, especially since you can only control one at a time. The controls are simple enough. You just use the up, down, left and right arrows on your keyboard. But you have to hit the 1, 2, 3, or 4 keys to choose the ghost you currently want to control. And as soon as you release a ghost, odds are it's going to wander off somewhere that you didn't really ant it to go.

[via Random Good Stuff]

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Pac-Xon - Today's time-waster


Pax-Xon is a new take on your traditional Pac-man game. In the game you're a Pac man like character, and your goal is to cover 80% of the board in blue without touching a ghost. You do that by traveling across the screen drawing lines. If you enclose an area with lines that doesn't contain a ghost then that entire area turns blue, if a ghost touches your line in progress then you lose a life.

There are a couple of power-ups that can occur. Cherries make you move faster, Bananas make ghosts move slower, and ice cream will make ghosts stop all together. You can also turn the tables on the ghosts by eating a blinking circle which, much like the power pills in the corners of the original Pac Man, give you the goods and make your little muncher able to eat the ghosts.

[Thanks E.J.!]

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