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Sat-Nav Pac-Man
Thoroughly irresponsible ghost-gobbling in a city of your choice | |
The name says it all. Incorporate pac-man into your car's sat-nav software, by superimposing the game onto your current location.
Drive around a town or city eating imaginary Pac-Dots, shown on your sat-nav screen, and avoiding those pesky ghosts. Eat Power Pellets so you can turn the tables on
Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, and so on... ...you get the idea.
Imagine cars suddenly braking and reversing in city streets for no outwardly apparent reason... ...bwah, bwah, bwah, bwah, bwaaah. Damn!
Ok, very irresponsible, but just maybe this or other adaptable games could be played out more safely on an old airfield - Super Mario Kart anyone?
Human pac-man
http://www.newscien...rticle.ns?id=dn6689
No cars, otherwise very similar... [gtoal, Jan 12 2006]
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I misunderstood this initially as using google map or mapquest. Now that would be a fine game! You could pacman around the roads in your city of choice - pan out to look for troves of pellets in another neighborhood. pan in to figure out how to exit that culdesac... |
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Virtual geocaching. Speed trap alerts. Pastry shop markers. I am *so* there. |
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I have a map where I mark all of the roads I've been (the rural stuff, city is of no interest). Now I can have a map of where I haven't been. |
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People are already too knowingly irresponsible about driving. I'll remove the fishbone if you add a spear pointing out from the steering wheel at the driver. |
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//add a spear pointing out from the steering wheel at the driver// |
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- you mean the chance they might get eaten by a ghost isn't enough? |
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I mean that the fear of being eaten by a ghost could make them run over a little kid. Game over for the kid, and "My bad" from the driver. I know, it's just the half-bakery, but I guess I've got a sore spot for irresponsible drivers who happened to have killed some people I know. |
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I like the idea, but on one condition: Not in your home city, there would have to be designated cities off-limits to pedestrians where you could do this, with a disclaimer that says anyone harmed is not eligible for compensation of any kind. It sounds like a hell of an extreme sport, though. Wins are determined by combining longest time in and highest level reached, with everyone, regardless of level, in the same arena. |
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sophocles, I know where you're coming from - my wife's banned me from taking the kids to school 'cos I embarrass her by stopping people parking on the zig-zag lines (true). |
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Before I posted this I looked to see if anyone out there had actually baked it, because it really wouldn't surprise me. They hadn't, and the pun was just too strong a mental image to keep to myself. |
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The last paragraph of the idea description (airfield bit) sums up my position nicely, plus the use of the word 'irresponsible' twice in the blurb. There was an earlier anno (now deleted by its author, can't recall who) that suggested this could be done with old dodgem cars. Change that to go-karts with a reverse gear and I think it's more safely bakeable. Still not putting spikes on the steering wheels, 'cos some would just see that as the 'ultra-extreme' version... |
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//my wife's banned me from taking the kids to school 'cos I embarrass her by stopping people parking on the zig-zag lines // Good on yer, [boysparks]. |
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Perhaps the ghosts could represent actual hazards like traffic jams? This is marvellous stuff [+] |
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This is one of those where I wish I could vote more than once. Excellent. Pac-buns abound. |
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Yeah, that would be funny! |
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So when you drive out of the east part of
the city you immeditely re-appear on the
road on the other side of town. |
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It's got to be accompanied by that
'wakwakwakwaka' sound too. |
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Safety, safety safety. So: the way to do this is on foot. Still in a city. To the game, roads are considered to have one dimension so the fact that you are alongside the road rather than in it should make no difference. |
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