{"id":21155,"date":"2021-04-23T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21155"},"modified":"2021-03-26T01:38:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T01:38:59","slug":"play-pac-man-on-a-pizza-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/23\/play-pac-man-on-a-pizza-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Pac-Man…on a Pizza Box?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Pac-Man is one of the most popular video games of all time, and you can play the game on pretty much anything.\u00a0 Nearly every game console has a version of it, and you can even play it on your smart phone.\u00a0 And now you can play it on the top of your pizza box?!?\u00a0 What a world we live in!\u00a0 Seems kind of ironic since Pac-Man was said to be conceived when the creator took a slice out of a pizza (although that\u2019s not the full story).\u00a0 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!\u00a0 How does that work?\u00a0 Well you\u2019ll just have to read on to find out!<\/p>\n

So for a limited time, when you order from Pizza Hut, check your box to see if it has Pac-Man all over it.\u00a0 If it does, there is a QR code you can scan with your phone on the side.\u00a0 It\u2019ll take you to a web site where you can use your phone\u2019s camera to view the top of the box.\u00a0 If done correctly, it\u2019ll let you play Pac-Man on your phone, where the maze, Pac-Man, and the ghosts pop out in 3-D.\u00a0 Unfortunately it\u2019s not a very good game of Pac-Man.\u00a0 The touch screen controls stink, and the hit detection is even worse (the ghosts got me before even rounding a corner).\u00a0 And if your phone slightly veers off from the image on the box, the game pauses and I couldn\u2019t figure out how to un-pause it.\u00a0 But it\u2019s certainly an interesting idea.\u00a0 I wish I could get and keep a pristine Pac-Man pizza box for my Pac-Man collection!<\/p>\n

I tried to see if Pizza Hut was doing any other promotions with Pac-Man.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 But I couldn\u2019t find anything about that on their web site.\u00a0 But that\u2019s OK because I\u2019ve already got one of those (might write about it later).\u00a0 But anyway, here are some pictures I took of the pizza box and gameplay on top of it.<\/p>\n

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Pac-Man is one of the most popular video games of all time, and you can play the game on pretty much anything.\u00a0 Nearly every game console has a version of it, and you can even play it on your smart phone.\u00a0 And now you can play it on the top of your pizza box?!?\u00a0 What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21157,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21155\/revisions\/21157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}