Do you remember your high score in PacMan and when/where you set it?
Posted by ManuteBol_Rocks@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 53 comments
189,990
Student Union of David Lipscomb University in Nashville,TN
1983
SouthConsideration15@reddit
No, but I will beat your ass at Galaga. đ¤Ł
jaxbravesfan@reddit
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 âZZZâ had the top score. So I beat it, and sure enough, the next time I came back, âZZZâ had passed me again. We went back and forth for months, until one day, I was in there with my dad. He said, âLet me try.â I thought, âthis should be hilarious,â because I had never seen him play a video game in my entire life. I stood there and watched dumbfounded as he passed âZZZâ for the top score. Then I was even more dumbfounded when he put âZZZâ in. I told him he could put his own initials in there, and he said, âthese are the initials I use for this game.â 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.
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 didnât make nearly enough off of the machine that they thought they would.
SouthConsideration15@reddit
Haha. Thatâs a great story.
IntelligentNovel1967@reddit
Yesssssssss.
drew_almighty21@reddit
No, but I do remember my parents raging out that my brother and I blew through our allowance so fast.
warrenao@reddit
It was 53, and I DO NOT WANNA TALK ABOUT THIS AGAIN, okay?
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
Ok_Driver_6895@reddit
I had the book but a bad memory, so it didn't do me any good.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Sweaty_Ranger7476@reddit
if i didn't get 30,000 on the first two levels i quit playing.
ManuteBol_Rocks@reddit (OP)
You mustâve quit a lot. I think 26,800 was the max in those first two levels. đ
Sweaty_Ranger7476@reddit
it's 30K on an arcade unit.
ManuteBol_Rocks@reddit (OP)
Sweaty_Ranger7476@reddit
well, cherries are 100 points, and strawberries are 300 points, so that math already ain't mathing. . . then there is this:
ManuteBol_Rocks@reddit (OP)
You are right about that. AI made a mistake!!!!!
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.
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?
AdhesiveSeaMonkey@reddit
I once ditched school for almost a month straight to go to the arcade. I had issues.
Games like Dragonâs Lair were quarter eating machines while you learned the patterns. I also had a friend who I paid for a lot of their games.
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.
Scrotchety@reddit
That is such a "Hey ChatGPT, come up with a good nostalgia-bait headline I can farm Reddit karma with"
ExtraAd7611@reddit
No I don't. I think it was the pretzel.
wyohman@reddit
I don't remember the score but I think I hit the level with 5 keys. Albertsons grocery store, Grand Prairie Texas
SHADOWJACK2112@reddit
Moon Patrol was my jam, Valley View Mall, Dallas TX
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.
ManuteBol_Rocks@reddit (OP)
That game ruled. I havenât thought about it in 40 years.
SuspiciousMeat6696@reddit
Ugh. I was awful at PacMan & Ms. PacMan.
Tempest & Elevator Action were my jams.
teachthisdognewtrick@reddit
No idea the score, 12th key. The ghosts barely blinked on the power pills.
wyohman@reddit
They don't blink on keys. They change direction only
teachthisdognewtrick@reddit
Itâs like a 1 frame change I thought (itâs been a few decades since I played). And yeah they reverse direction. And crazy fast (for the time)
wyohman@reddit
I was completely stunned when I first discovered it
UmbertoEcoTheDolphin@reddit
I didn't give two fucks about any scores. I played to have fun and waste time.
HandheldObsession@reddit
365,680 about 5 days ago so easy to remember. Iâm more of a Ms Pac Man and Super Pac Man guy.
karma_the_sequel@reddit
69,420
jaketheunruly@reddit
186,900 Big o Pizza Huntington Beach, California, 1986
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 đ
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.
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.
tanhauser_gates_@reddit
Never had enough money ey to be good at any 25 cent video games.
Mephisto40K@reddit
No. I knew âthe Patternâ and played till I got bored
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.
natokills@reddit
Ms Pac-Man was playable, but not the original.
cometshoney@reddit
I totally sucked at Pac Man. Galaga was my game.
CrankyDoo@reddit
I donât remember my high score. Â I do remember the pattern that allows you to clear much of the board with no chance of dying. Â I never got really good though. Â As I recall I only ever made it as far as the second or third key. Â Once the power pellets only worked for a second or two (and later didnât even last a second) I had a terrible problem clearing the board.
Dubs9448@reddit
I got to the 8th key at Mayfair Market!
revcraigevil@reddit
I could play on my gf's Atari for hours. The pattern was easy to remember.
Mindless-Baker-7757@reddit
I never really dialed in that game.Â
Overall_Lobster823@reddit
Home. My mom (born in the 1920s) was a ms. Pacman fiend, and we had an atari.
Julian_Thorne@reddit
External_Side_7063@reddit
The colonial Inn, a pub my mother used to work at as I took all her tips quarters on the shit down Pac-Man machine donât remember the score but I do remember putting quarters in it because I sucked