Pac-Man only turns 30 once, and Google wasn’t about to let that momentous occasion pass by unnoticed. So, to celebrate, the site decided to make it’s logo into a Pac-Man homage. But, it isn’t just a cute image with a Pac-Man maze that just happens to spell out the word Google – it’s an actual, playable browser game.

There are two buttons below the search window, one that says “Google Search” and another that says “Insert Coin”. If you click “Insert Coin.” the familiar Pac-Man music queues up and the game begins in your browser…

To celebrate the launch of the Guinness World Records: Gamers Edition 2008, the first ever Guinness World Records book dedicated to gaming, Guinness is hosting a huge arcade gaming event at Barcade in Brooklyn, NY on April 10, 2008. The event invites all and sundry to prove their arcade gaming mettle for a chance to rewrite the record books.

All gamers 21 and older (bring your ID) can try their luck at breaking five different records…