LoCO commenters love to complain about Plazoids and how they affect Arcata Plaza commerce. Yeah, well, that stops now since, you’ll all agree, today’s brightly colored ghost invasion is much worse. Next trip to Tomo, you’d better pack some serious power pellets, ya hear?

OK. The forced lede above was inspired by Google’s latest April Fools Day prank which allows Google Maps users to play Pac-Man anywhere there are enough roads. Have you always wanted to play Pac-Man in your neighborhood? Maybe you have! Now you can do that (for a couple days, probably). 

Do you need this in your life? Direct your desktop browser over to Google Maps and look for the Pac-Man symbol and waste some time like we did.

Yes, LoCO had a grand ol’ 10 minutes gobbling up pellets, cherries and ghosts around Old Town Eureka (pictured above). Murder Mountain (pictured below) proved to be significantly more difficult and thus less fun.