YouTube is hiding an excellent, official high-speed Pac-Man mod in plain sight
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Summary
YouTube Playables is a Google Gaming experiment offering a collection of free-to-play games built using standard rendering APIs, which can be played within the standard YouTube video player, and is currently hosting a superfast version of Pac-Man.
In Pac-Man Superfast, the speed of both Pac-Man and the ghosts gradually increases from Easy through to Insane and Doom, challenging players’ reflexes and dodging abilities, although dying temporarily reduces the speed.
The game is an officially licensed version, designed by RedFox Games, but its existence was not widely publicised when it allegedly launched last October, and there is little mention of it on RedFox’s website.
This YouTube Playables collection of games can be considered a competitor to Netflix’s mobile gaming offerings and is apparently available to select users in eligible territories.
