Urban gaming

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Urban gaming is the branch of computer games that combines real-world GPS and hand-held computers, like PDAs and cellphones. This originally began with Geocaching, but changed to incorporate multiplayer techniques, where a virtual gaming world is superimposed onto a real location. The upshot of this is that people receive information from their computers, and run around town with other people playing the games, much like a complex game of tag. Some games are old games like pac-man, where the pac-man follows a series of virtual dots, evading other people (ghosts). If the person touches a street post, however, it is counted as a power pellet, and the pac-man can chase down the ghosts. It has some advantages like exercise and very interactive multiplayers, but some serious disadvantages like blindspots in the satellite network.

Uncle Roy All Around You is an urban game in which players use handheld computers to search for "Uncle Roy" in a city.

Another game played on the streets is a form of the classic computer game Pac-Man, named Pac-Manhattan. It is just like a real game of Pac-Man, except played on the streets of Manhattan. The game is made up of the controllers, who control the movement of the characters, and the characters themselves, who play the actual game.