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i had this game as a kid on the atari...could you actually complete it???

or did it just get faster and faster and faster??

Pac-Man was designed to have no ending – as long as the player keeps at least one life, he or she should be able to play the game indefinitely. However, a bug keeps this from happening: Normally, no more than seven fruit are displayed at the bottom of the screen at any given time. But when the internal level counter, which is stored in a single byte (8 bits), reaches 255, the subroutine that draws the fruit erroneously "rolls over" this number to zero, causing it to try to draw 256 fruit instead of the usual seven.

This corrupts the bottom of the screen and the entire right half of the maze with seemingly random symbols, making it impossible to eat enough dots to beat the level. Because this effectively ends the game, this "split-screen" level is often referred to as the "kill screen". Emulators and code analysis have revealed what would happen should this 256th level be cleared: The fruit and intermissions would restart at level 1 conditions, but the enemies would retain their higher speed and invulnerability to power pellets from the higher stages.^[29]

Perfect play[edit]

A perfect Pac-Man game occurs when the player achieves the maximum possible score on the first 255 levels (by eating every possible dot, power pellet, fruit, and enemy) without losing a single life, and then scoring as many points as possible in the last level.^[30][31] As verified by the Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard on July 3, 1999, the first person to achieve this maximum possible score (3,333,360 points) was Billy Mitchell of Hollywood, Florida, who performed the feat in about six hours.^[31][32]

In September 2009, David Race of Beavercreek, Ohio, became the sixth person to achieve a perfect score. His time of 3 hours, 41 minutes, and 22 seconds set a new record for the fastest time to obtain a perfect score.^[33]

In December 1982, an 8-year-old boy, Jeffrey R. Yee, supposedly received a letter from U.S. President Ronald Reagan congratulating him on a worldwide record of 6,131,940 points, a score only possible if he had passed the unbeatable Split-Screen Level.^[31] In September 1983, Walter Day, chief scorekeeper at Twin Galaxies, took the US National Video Game Team on a tour of the East Coast to visit video game players who claimed they could get through the Split-Screen Level. No video game player could demonstrate this ability. In 1999, Billy Mitchell offered $100,000 to anyone who could pass through the Split-Screen Level before January 1, 2000. The prize was never claimed

wow!

thanks!!

tinaz said:

maximum possible score (3,333,360 points)

In December 1982, an 8-year-old boy, Jeffrey R. Yee, supposedly received a letter from U.S. President Ronald Reagan congratulating him on a worldwide record of 6,131,940 points, a score only possible if he had passed the unbeatable Split-Screen Level

How do you almost double your score simply by beating an additional level?

aardvark15 said:

tinaz said:

maximum possible score (3,333,360 points)

In December 1982, an 8-year-old boy, Jeffrey R. Yee, supposedly received a letter from U.S. President Ronald Reagan congratulating him on a worldwide record of 6,131,940 points, a score only possible if he had passed the unbeatable Split-Screen Level

How do you almost double your score simply by beating an additional level?

the glitch may only effect that one screen. So if a person knew the pattern or somehow got past that one screen then they may be able to play another set of screens as if it started over from screen 1 thus 2 X the known max.

but more than likely it never happened (an 8 year old really) or it was a hacked system.

you know Ms Pac Man started as a hacked game....

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i had this game as a kid on the atari...could you actually complete it???

or did it just get faster and faster and faster??

I had that cartridge and I could play the jello out of it... that and asteroids and space invaders... i won several local contests on them...but i was no good at the arcade versions...

IDK any answers to your questions guys... I just googled the question and copy and pasted the answer!

tinaz said:

in my opinion, beating this game basically means "clearing the FIRST STAGE"

since the other stages are the f same, I'm satisfied

classic iconic game, anyway