The Stairwell

Pac-Manhattan: Games on a grand scale

If you've got a few friends who happen to be in good shape and want to do some urban exploring, you've got to turn them on to Pac-Manhattan. Essentially, the game is played on the streets of any city or neighborhood. Simply by holding a cellphone and receiving orders from a controller in 'headquarters' who is watching a gps display of all the participants, players move about trying to avoid each other (or chase each other). The object is to capture an area or object in the enemy team's city territory and avoid other players who are getting directions from their controller over their cellphones. Sounds complicated, but just imagine PacMan.

Well, the best article to read on the nation's latest craze is in this week's Adobe Think Tank site. Game anyone while the weather's still warm?

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