Back before I worked for Kotaku, I worked at a bank, working on an ultra-secret project to ascertain whether our hedge fund customers were, in fact, evil terrorist supermen. They weren't.

Despite the fact that my job was to save your worthless butts from blood-thirsty Islamofascism every day, and that my six months at the bank resulted in... oh... let's just say a billion saved lives, it was largely boring. There was no internet. All day, I fiddled around with Excel, largely engineering some of the most ingenious methods of looking busy ever conceived.

This version of Pac-Man, that plays entirely within the confines of an Excel 97 or 2000 spreadsheet, looks exactly like the sort of project I busied myself with in the name of Mom, America and Apple Pie. Each "pixel" is a cell, and the spreadsheet changes the color of that cell according to player input. It makes me wonder what could have been if I hadn't been fired halfway through my own personal project, Excel System Shock. Florian Eckhardt

Pacelman. Pacman for Excel. [Geocities]