IN 1980….PAC-MAN® hit video arcades and it changed the face of video gaming forever.

IN APRIL THIS YEAR… to celebrate the launch of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft teamed up with NAMCO BANDAI Games America to bring the world’s biggest user-generated PAC-MAN® to players across the world, using the power of HTML5.

TODAY…. Internet Explorer 9 has driven a new PAC-MAN® milestone as the world’s biggest PAC-MAN® game has reached a record-breaking ONE BILLION DOTS eaten by gamers from across the globe playing over 43 million times!

The World’s Biggest PAC-MAN® invites users to create and play their own mazes and those submitted by fans. The original PAC-MAN® had 240 PAC-dots, four power pellets and 255 mazes. Thirty-one years on, NAMCO BANDI and Microsoft have taken this legacy to new heights.

Play now and be a part of web gaming history

Now played more than 43 million times by fans across the world and with 6,246,751 PAC-MAN® lives lost in the process, gamers can play PAC-MAN now and celebrate the legacy as they work towards the next record-breaking milestone.

The World’s Biggest PAC-MAN® was created exclusively for Internet Explorer 9 to take advantage of modern web standards and hardware acceleration to provide PAC-MAN with the best playing experience on the web.

Check out these PAC-FACTS about the world’s biggest user-generated PAC-MAN:

• · 37 – the number of football fields the mazes would fill if laid side-by-side
• · 6,246,751 – the number of times the loses a life sound has been heard

At the time of issuing this release, over 1,000,202,800 dots had been consumed. Check out the latest stats from the World’s Biggest PAC-MAN® here.

Meet the brains behind the operation

The world’s biggest user-generated PAC-MAN® was developed in Australia by Sydney-based, award-winning Soap Creative and Microsoft Australia. Thanks to Internet Explorer 9 players can experience the full performance and immersive experience of PAC-MAN® through HTML 5 – just like it’s a native game on a PC.

Download Internet Explorer 9 now to experience the beauty of the web and the power of HTML5 in action, to play the World’s Biggest PAC-MAN in all its glory.