Most Google Doodles revolve around art that transforms the iconic search engine's logo to celebrate anniversaries and special events, or to raise awareness of ongoing issues, like recent ones that shone a spotlight on Route 66 and Teacher Appreciation Day. But a few times each year, the Google Doodle team goes one step further and cranks out some high-quality games that take the drawings to another level. Usually these games are meant to last anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes, though some last even an hour or more. In no particular order, here are some of the best Google Doodle games you can still play. Pac-Man is a timeless classic, so it only makes sense to kick off our list with this world-famous 1980s' arcade game.

A few times each year, the Google Doodle team cranks out some high-quality games to celebrate anniversaries and special events, or to raise awareness of ongoing issues. Usually these games are meant to last anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes, though some last even an hour or more. In no particular order, here are some of the best Google Doodle games you can still play. Pac-Man is a timeless classic, so it only makes sense to kick off our list with this world-famous 1980s' arcade game. On May 21, 2010, Google released this fun Doodle to celebrate Pac-Man's 30th anniversary.

Remember when you could play Pac-Man or solve a Rubik's Cube on Google's homepage? Interactive games such as those are making a comeback. Starting Monday, Google is using its Doodles to launch a series of its classic popular interactive games from its archives. Google's Doodles transform the company logo on its main search into an illustration or interactive, celebrating occasions like a key birthday or anniversary, or special holiday. "As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home," said Google in a statement.

When Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were headed to Nevada's Burning Man festival in August of 1998, they wanted users and employees to know they wouldn't be at the search engine's helm for a while. The Ph.D. students at Stanford University decided to replace the second'O' in Google's homepage logo with a stick figure resembling the festival's logo. "It was a little bit of a joke," Jessica Yu, the Google Doodle team lead, tells TIME. "It has definitely evolved a lot since then." What began as a joke became Google Doodles that celebrate and honor holidays, people and issues worldwide, now an important venture for the tech giant.

Thursday's Google Doodle celebrated the 334th birthday of famed composer Johann Sebastian Bach, with a twist: It was the first Doodle to incorporate machine learning. Users could create a melody, then the Doodle would automatically generate custom harmonies to produce a full composition in Bach's style. It was delightful for many Google users, but it also stepped into a controversy that has been brewing in musical circles for years. Google says in its "Behind the Doodle" video that it chose Bach's music as the subject of the first A.I. Doodle because he had a characteristic style and composed with a set of musical rules in mind. This formulaic quality made his work an ideal subject for a machine-learning algorithm to train on.

Google is offering US schoolchildren the chance to design their own Doodle to appear on its homepage. The Google Doodle sees the Silicon Valley search giant periodically replace its familiar logo with a sketch, often animated, to celebrate a public figure on an anniversary associated with them or their achievements. Doing so offers an opportunity to champion figures from the arts and sciences who have distinguished themselves through innovation or by blazing a trail for others and deserve to be better known. This year's theme is "hope", with entrants asked to submit a design based on their personal wishes for the future. Kids who would like to get involved have until 8pm Pacific Time on 19 March 2019 to upload a .jpg

The tech giant is celebrating its 20th birthday with a new Google Doodle marking the special occasion. The multi-billion dollar technology titan has certainly come a long way from its humble beginnings in the dorm rooms of Stanford University just two decades ago. Here's a look at the history of Google and what a Google Doodle is. Google's newest Doodle marks the company's milestone 20th birthday in September 2018 Google's history dates back to 1995 at Stanford University in Stanford, California after prospective graduate school student Larry Page met Sergey Brin, a student at the college assigned to show him around. After becoming friends, both Page and Brin developed a search engine from their dorm rooms known as Backrub in 1996 designed to improve online search by using links to determine the importance of website pages.

It's hard to believe Google is about to turn 20 years old. And while the company has changed drastically in the past two decades, going from being a simple search engine to a global tech titan, there's one thing that's been there from the very first day: the homepage Doodle. Since 1998, Google has kept its site looking fresh by creating different variations of its logo, inspired by cultural icons, events and phenomenons such as Pac-Man, the birth of hip-hop and more. More than 2,000 Doodles have adorned Google's homepage, each with a unique charm. But there are some that have stood out from the rest and will forever be embedded in people's memories.

Search giant Google is celebrating its own 20th birthday today with a trademark Doodle. Replacing its logo with an occasional animation paying tribute to eminent figures from the worlds of science, the arts and history on their anniversaries is just one of the ways in which the site's programmers can express themselves. Their quirky sense of humour is actually embedded within the software's DNA. If you tell Google to "do a barrel roll", the whole page will spin clockwise at 90 degrees before juddering to a stop. If you search for "the answer to life the universe and everything", you'll be presented with Google's calculator displaying the number 42, an in-joke alluding to Douglas Adams' cult science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978).

A Google doodle from earlier this year commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Silent Parade, during which almost 10,000 African-Americans marched in New York City to protest violence against African-Americans. A Google doodle from earlier this year commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Silent Parade, during which almost 10,000 African-Americans marched in New York City to protest violence against African-Americans. Chances are you've pulled up the Google search page, surprised and perhaps delighted to find the usual blue, red, yellow and green letters transformed to make the Google logo into a colorful cartoonish image to celebrate an important anniversary or holiday. Google has been sharing its beloved Google doodles with millions of people around the world since 2000. The idea for doodles came in 1998 after Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin added a stick figure man to the search engine's logo.