I Don’t Know Why ‘Microscopic Pac-Man’ Is A Thing, But I Can Dig It

  Pac-Man, as we know, is one of gaming’s most iconic heroes. Since a pizza sans a slice first inspired his creator to design him (so the legend goes), the little yellow bastard has been right up there with the likes of Mario, Doomguy and the lil’ triangular ship from Asteroids.

As such, you’ll struggle to find a system that the arcade cat and mouse classic hasn’t been ported to. It’s been remade, rereleased, remixed and generally pimped out-amundo. Even teeny-ass single-celled organisms are playing Pac-Man these days.  

First up, a warning: I’m about to drop some science on your butts. Nobody needs that on a Monday afternoon, but it’s for a good cause. This is just too damn cool. Over in Norway, the Institute of Micro and Nano System Technology are working on the 'Mikroskopisk Pacman' project. For actual legitimate reasons, you understand, they weren’t just dicking around like the human-ear-on-a-mouse’s-damn-back guys.

‘…using nano-structures to create a three-dimensional environment to study how euglena and ciliates (Pac-Man) and rotifers (Ghosts) behave is much closer to nature than a two-dimentional petri dish. The maze, less than one millimeter in diameter, better resembles the tiny canals and structures such creatures encounter in the wild,’ Kotaku explains.

Well, I’m sold. You’ve got to check this out in action, it’s amazing stuff: