Do you remember your high score in PacMan and when/where you set it?

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SouthConsideration15@reddit

No, but I will beat your ass at Galaga. 🤣

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In high school, the local Dairy Queen had one video game, and it was Galaga. I set the high score. I came back the next week, and “ZZZ” had the top score. So I beat it, and sure enough, the next time I came back, “ZZZ” had passed me again. We went back and forth for months, until one day, I was in there with my dad. He said, “Let me try.” I thought, “this should be hilarious,” because I had never seen him play a video game in my entire life. I stood there and watched dumbfounded as he passed “ZZZ” for the top score. Then I was even more dumbfounded when he put “ZZZ” in. I told him he could put his own initials in there, and he said, “these are the initials I use for this game.” Turned out I had been battling against my dad, who stopped into that DQ for a dipped cone, after a meeting he had down the road from it every week. I had never been so shocked in my life.

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therelybare5@reddit

We took advantage of the bug that stopped bombs from dropping, often. That game was a big hit at college but the school didn’t make nearly enough off of the machine that they thought they would.

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SouthConsideration15@reddit

Haha. That’s a great story.

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IntelligentNovel1967@reddit

Yesssssssss.

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drew_almighty21@reddit

No, but I do remember my parents raging out that my brother and I blew through our allowance so fast.

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warrenao@reddit

It was 53, and I DO NOT WANNA TALK ABOUT THIS AGAIN, okay?

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TheRateBeerian@reddit

I bought the book that had the patterns explained and I memorized the one that works up until 7th key. I dont recall if I ever made it that far. Maybe 3rd key

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Ok_Driver_6895@reddit

I had the book but a bad memory, so it didn't do me any good.

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Keefer1970@reddit

I was never much good at original Pac-Man, but I could kick serious ass on Ms. Pac-Man. Not sure why I was so much better at "Ms.,", since they're essentially the same game. I guess I just played it more often.

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Ok_Driver_6895@reddit

Yeah, me too. I always played it whenever my mom took us to Jack's (the fast food restaurant). They had Ms. Pac-Man and one other cabinet but I must've not played it since I can't remember which game it was. (Never had a game system at home until I moved out and bought a Sega Master System.)

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ManuteBol_Rocks@reddit (OP)

You prolly played the version of Ms PacMan where they let Ms PacMan speed up but kept the monsters going slow. One could do a lot of damage on that game with those settings. It was fun.

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Keefer1970@reddit

I used to play the sped-up version on my NES all the time, it was a time saver because I'd reached a point where a game would take several hours at normal speed, haha.

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Sweaty_Ranger7476@reddit

if i didn't get 30,000 on the first two levels i quit playing.

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ManuteBol_Rocks@reddit (OP)

You must’ve quit a lot. I think 26,800 was the max in those first two levels. 😁

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Sweaty_Ranger7476@reddit

it's 30K on an arcade unit.

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ManuteBol_Rocks@reddit (OP)

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Sweaty_Ranger7476@reddit

well, cherries are 100 points, and strawberries are 300 points, so that math already ain't mathing. . . then there is this:

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ManuteBol_Rocks@reddit (OP)

You are right about that. AI made a mistake!!!!!

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AdhesiveSeaMonkey@reddit

As a kid, I had an issue with video games, Like I stole hundreds of dollars from my brother and put it all into the local arcade. I got kicked out of an arcade like a drunk out of a bar after asking for my 6th twenty dollar bill worth of quarters that day.

I had the first 115-120 levels of Pac Man memorized. One day I made it past level 255 and got the kill screen on a tabletop version in a Round Table Pizza. I have no idea what my score was or what fruit/food it had. That's not why I played.

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grin_ferno@reddit

??? If you played only 5 mins per quarter that's 6 hours for 20 bucks. How'd you manage to spend 6 20's in one day?

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AdhesiveSeaMonkey@reddit

I once ditched school for almost a month straight to go to the arcade. I had issues.

Games like Dragon’s Lair were quarter eating machines while you learned the patterns. I also had a friend who I paid for a lot of their games.

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deagh@reddit

I still play it :) They have it on Steam. Think I paid 8 bucks for it. So far I've only managed to get to the orange, though.

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Scrotchety@reddit

That is such a "Hey ChatGPT, come up with a good nostalgia-bait headline I can farm Reddit karma with"

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ExtraAd7611@reddit

No I don't. I think it was the pretzel.

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wyohman@reddit

I don't remember the score but I think I hit the level with 5 keys. Albertsons grocery store, Grand Prairie Texas

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SHADOWJACK2112@reddit

Moon Patrol was my jam, Valley View Mall, Dallas TX

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wyohman@reddit

Moon Patrol is a good one. I still play it occasionally on my retro arcade.

I used to ice skate at the Galleria just up the road.

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ManuteBol_Rocks@reddit (OP)

That game ruled. I haven’t thought about it in 40 years.

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SuspiciousMeat6696@reddit

Ugh. I was awful at PacMan & Ms. PacMan.

Tempest & Elevator Action were my jams.

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teachthisdognewtrick@reddit

No idea the score, 12th key. The ghosts barely blinked on the power pills.

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wyohman@reddit

They don't blink on keys. They change direction only

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teachthisdognewtrick@reddit

It’s like a 1 frame change I thought (it’s been a few decades since I played). And yeah they reverse direction. And crazy fast (for the time)

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wyohman@reddit

I was completely stunned when I first discovered it

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UmbertoEcoTheDolphin@reddit

I didn't give two fucks about any scores. I played to have fun and waste time.

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HandheldObsession@reddit

365,680 about 5 days ago so easy to remember. I’m more of a Ms Pac Man and Super Pac Man guy.

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karma_the_sequel@reddit

69,420

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jaketheunruly@reddit

186,900 Big o Pizza Huntington Beach, California, 1986

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ViewfromMyOfcWindow@reddit

I set the high score at the local roller rink in 1985 on Super Pac-Man but don't remember what it was. It was there for a few months! A proud achievement of my pre-teen years 😂

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wcm48@reddit

25,540 was my high score… and the high score of all my cousins on the battery powered mini arcade game.

I know, because I was petty enough to make a song about it and still remember the song.

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IntelligentNovel1967@reddit

I still have my C battery powered arcade game, yellow case and black controls; still works. I also have my Atari (1979/80) and all the games.

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tanhauser_gates_@reddit

Never had enough money ey to be good at any 25 cent video games.

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Mephisto40K@reddit

No. I knew “the Pattern” and played till I got bored

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This-Is-Huge@reddit

It drives me crazy thinking if I were a smart kid, I would have invested every .25c I put into video games, pinball, pool tables instead of spending them so frivolously and frequently. Those quarters had actual value back then, compared to today.

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natokills@reddit

Ms Pac-Man was playable, but not the original.

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cometshoney@reddit

I totally sucked at Pac Man. Galaga was my game.

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CrankyDoo@reddit

I don’t remember my high score. I do remember the pattern that allows you to clear much of the board with no chance of dying. I never got really good though. As I recall I only ever made it as far as the second or third key. Once the power pellets only worked for a second or two (and later didn’t even last a second) I had a terrible problem clearing the board.

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