This game, the quite essential classic arcade game, was originally created by Namco in the early 1980s and has now been updated for the web by Neave. The idea is a simple one - guide Pacman around the maze and eat all the little white dots whilst avoiding those nasty ghosts. If you eat a Power Pill, you can eat the ghosts!. Occasionally, a fruit appears which gives you a bonus score when eaten. Enough talk - Lets Get Munching!
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GameCanvas is a Canvas with additional capabilities; it provides methods for immediate painting and for examining the state of the device keys. These new methods make it possible to enclose all of a game's functionality in a single loop, under control of a single thread. To see why this is attractive, think about how you would implement a typical game using Canvas: