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# Run from Ghosts in Real Cemeteries with Google Maps Pac-Man
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/run-from-ghosts-in-real-cemeteries-with-google-maps-pac-man/
- Published: 2015-03-31T20:31:02.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:31:40.000Z
- Description: Today is a glorious one for your idle time, as Google Maps made a function available to turn any street view into a game of Pac-Man.
- Author: Allison Meier
- Tags: In Brief, games, Google, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

![Running from ghosts around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris through the Google Maps Pac-Man function (all screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/03/pacmangooglemaps11.jpg)

Running from ghosts around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris through the Google Maps Pac-Man function (all screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic)

Today is a glorious one for your idle time, as [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps?ref=hyperallergic.com) has made a function available to turn any street view into a game of Pac-Man.

Well, not ANY view, as you have to be somewhere with enough streets for a fair fight between hungry yellow orb and colorful ghosts. The Spiral Jetty, for example, is off-limits for the version of the 1980s game, alas. However, much of the world is your arcade oyster in the pre-April Fool’s Day platform, from the [Sculpture Garden at the Walker Art Center](https://twitter.com/walkerartcenter/status/582979289471160320?ref=hyperallergic.com) to the clandestine spaces of [Gramercy Park](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7378283,-73.9852803,18z/data=!1e3?ref=hyperallergic.com). The Pac-Man option follows Google making its logo into a Pac-Man game [back in 2010](https://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-pac-man?ref=hyperallergic.com), and Google Maps transforming into[ a Pokemon hunt](http://kotaku.com/how-to-find-pokemon-on-google-maps-1555465846?ref=hyperallergic.com) last year as another April Fool’s Eve hack (apparently they always like to be one day ahead of the rest of the internet pranksters).

Personally, I found it addictive to track down those winding, nonsensical 19th-century cemetery maps available on Google Maps, such as the looping Victorian roads of Brooklyn’s [Green-Wood Cemetery](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Green-Wood+Cemetery/@40.714421,-73.9425998,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c25ac2ce420ae7:0xad7fab8221c4fc67?ref=hyperallergic.com), the treacherous maze-like roads of [Père-Lachaise](https://www.google.com/maps/place/P%C3%A8re+Lachaise+Cemetery/@48.861393,2.393328,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x47e66d8b5c69a785:0xa1cf6127530b6419?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Paris, or the hellish conflagrations of roads in Boston’s [Mount Auburn Cemetery](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mount+Auburn+Cemetery/@42.371097,-71.145961,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e37781c382fb8b:0x1cbffa1239f2d6f9?ref=hyperallergic.com). Running from ghosts in a cemetery is suddenly such fun. Whether it’s the grid of NYC or the [Haussmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Eug%C3%A8ne%5FHaussmann?ref=hyperallergic.com) lines of Paris, just be sure you’ll have plenty of fleeing room and intersections to get away from those sinister specters. You don’t want to find yourself at a dead end.

![The treacherous, haunted roads of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/03/googlemapspacman1.jpg)

The treacherous, haunted roads of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston

![Eating through Times Square](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/03/googlemapspacman21.jpg)

Eating through Times Square

*Play Pac-Man anywhere* [*on Google Maps*](https://www.google.com/maps?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*

*h/t* [*Kotaku*](http://kotaku.com/you-can-play-pac-man-on-google-maps-right-now-1694756745?ref=hyperallergic.com)