World's Biggest Pac-Man
A community-driven Pac-Man with interlocking user-created mazes.
World's Biggest Pac-Man is a browser game created by Australian website designer Soap Creative along with Microsoft and Namco Bandai Games. It was announced at the Microsoft MIX Developer Conference on 13 April 2011 and built as an HTML5 project for Internet Explorer 9, also commemorating the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man. The game gained attention for its community-driven design, allowing multiple players to play together in user-created, customizable and interlocking mazes.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- Soap Creative
- Released
- 13 April 2011
- Genre
- Maze
- Modes
- Single-player with multiplayer interaction
- Series
- Pac-Man
- Platform
- Browser
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Reception
The Guardian described the game as an internet hit, and ABC News called it a web sensation. A Guinness World Record existed for the highest score on World's Biggest Pac-Man, set at 5,555,552 points by Stephen Kish on 14 August 2011, though that category is no longer listed on their website. That score was unofficially surpassed by Twitch streamer NewTxtDoc, who reached 11,111,108 points over a 25-hour period from 23 November to 24 November 2020.
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