Acornell.2691
net.games.pacman
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!mhuxt!cbosg!harpo!vax135!cornell!mnc
Wed Mar 31 00:34:58 1982
PACMAN manufacturers, PACMAN patterns
You're both right (and wrong) -- PACMAN is a trademark of a Japanese
company that has licensed Midway, an American company, to manufacture
it here.  Other companies have licenses in other countries. Either
Midway or the original Japanese company -- I don't know which -- has
licensed Atari to manufacture a home version of the game for its
cartridge-game computer.  Ads for this game have appeared in national
magazines.

Incidently, I claim to have helped invent the best existing pattern for
the original Midway PACMAN game, it having allowed me to achieve a
high score of 249,640 on the hard version of the game.  My friend Dean
got a score of 276,000 on the easy version.  Neither one of us feels that
we have developed the full potential of this pattern -- we just don't
have the stamina to play it longer without making a mistake.  These are
the highest scores I or any of my friends have ever seen displayed on a
machine anywhere.  Would anyone who has seen with their own eyes a higher
score please notify me privately.  I will report high score later if there's
interest.

There are really two patterns -- one for the easy screens (where the monsters
have a safe period upon eating an energizer) and one for the hard screens
(starting with the 9th or 4th key screen, depending on the machine version,
the monsters don't turn blue at all and the pacman is slowed down).  In the
easy screens, my pattern eats all four monsters at the first energizer and
eats the fruit twice per screen (it only appears twice).  On the hard screens,
the pattern gets the key once, but takes out virtually all the dots before
it runs out.  I am willing to negotiate the disclosure of these patterns
together with advanced screen techniques, differences between the two machine
versions, and various other information that will probably double your high
score within a week.  If you would like to impress your friends and dates
with your PACMAN prowess, contact me for details.

                                       Michael Condict
                                       Ithaca, NY

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