Why Did Pac-Man Google Doodle Cost Millions? #Shorts #Gaming #GamingHistory #GameDev

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Why Did Pac-Man Google Doodle Cost Millions? #Shorts #Gaming #GamingHistory #GameDev
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What if I told you a simple Google Doodle wasted nearly 5 million hours of work time? �

In 2010, Google celebrated Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary with a playable version of the game on its homepage. But what happened next?

� Users spent an extra 36 seconds per search just playing Pac-Man.
� With 504 million users visiting Google that day, this added up to 4.8 million hours of lost productivity—or 547 years!
� In financial terms, that’s $120 million in work hours… completely chomped away! �

Google had so much fun ruining productivity that they eventually made the game permanently available.

� Did you play Pac-Man on Google? Let us know in the comments!

#PacMan #GoogleDoodle #GamingTrivia #LostProductivity #RetroGaming

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