Play Pac-Man…on a Pizza Box?!?
Pac-Man is one of the most popular video games of all time, and you can play the game on pretty much anything. Nearly every game console has a version of it, and you can even play it on your smart phone. And now you can play it on the top of your pizza box?!? What a world we live in! Seems kind of ironic since Pac-Man was said to be conceived when the creator took a slice out of a pizza (although that’s not the full story). But here in the US, Pizza Hut is doing a promotion with Pac-Man where you can use your phone to play an AR game of Pac-Man on the top of your pizza box! How does that work? Well you’ll just have to read on to find out!
So for a limited time, when you order from Pizza Hut, check your box to see if it has Pac-Man all over it. If it does, there is a QR code you can scan with your phone on the side. It’ll take you to a web site where you can use your phone’s camera to view the top of the box. If done correctly, it’ll let you play Pac-Man on your phone, where the maze, Pac-Man, and the ghosts pop out in 3-D. Unfortunately it’s not a very good game of Pac-Man. The touch screen controls stink, and the hit detection is even worse (the ghosts got me before even rounding a corner). And if your phone slightly veers off from the image on the box, the game pauses and I couldn’t figure out how to un-pause it. But it’s certainly an interesting idea. I wish I could get and keep a pristine Pac-Man pizza box for my Pac-Man collection!
I tried to see if Pizza Hut was doing any other promotions with Pac-Man. They have a TV commercial where some dude is playing a tabletop Pac-Man arcade machine, and I read you can enter to win an Arcade1up Pac-Man tabletop as well. But I couldn’t find anything about that on their web site. But that’s OK because I’ve already got one of those (might write about it later). But anyway, here are some pictures I took of the pizza box and gameplay on top of it.
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