Perfect score in Pac-Man

Christopher Sypal writes "It seems that nobody has ever been able to get a perfect score in Pac-Man (or at least with solid proof) until now. " Ya know I don't know if this is a hoax or not, but I don't care. Its just to strange.

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I don't think this is possible

[toastyman]

It's been a while since I've played PacMan, i don't think this is possible.

After you pass 250 levels, an overflow existed, which would make the game essentially unplayable. A screenshot of what happens at this point is here.

Assuming at best 20,000 points per level, 5,000,000 is about the peak. However, if I remember right, the score would overflow at 2 million.

In any case, some of us bored people in school played long enough to crash the game at level 250 years ago, and it's nothing new.

If anyone really wants, i could try to ask around at work about what score the overflow happened.

Kevin Day
Game Programmer
Midway Games
(no, I had nothing to do with PacMan.. before my time)

Interesting, but in the OLD Pac-Man...

[CJ Hooknose]

...it was impossible to complete more than 255 boards. The 8-bit "board register" in the old game started out at 1, naturally, and when you got past board 255, it tried to access board 0. Then, the game basically gave you a "Seg Fault" and displayed random graphical garbage over half the screen. No, I don't have a screenshot; wish I did.

Max score per board in Pac-Man is something like 20,000 points. (That's eating each ghost 4 times on each power pill and chomping 1 5000-point bonus fruit.) 12,000/board is a little more realistic for an awesome player. But anyway... it's an awesome achievement, kind of like eating 28 hot dogs in 30 seconds.