I was one of those kids who could put one quarter into a Pac-Man machine and stay there for hours. I only got 105,610 on this one, but in my defense, I haven't played it for a couple of decades, I'm using arrow keys rather than a joystick, and the longer I played, the worse it lagged. Too bad it will disappear tomorrow.
If I recall correctly, the original Pac-Man was one of the games that didn't have a digit in the millions place, so after you reached a million points, it would seem to blank out and reset, however it DID keep your score in memory for high score purposes. What I would do on such games is to pass a million points then die soon after, so even though I had 1,001,200 points, it would appear that I only had 1200. People would see a high score of 1200 points and think, "Oh I can beat that," but after they got 32,410 points or whatever, it still wouldn't list them as high score. My 1200 would still be sitting at the top mocking them, and they would get extremely angry and think the machine was broken or something LMAO.
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If I recall correctly, the original Pac-Man was one of the games that didn't have a digit in the millions place, so after you reached a million points, it would seem to blank out and reset, however it DID keep your score in memory for high score purposes. What I would do on such games is to pass a million points then die soon after, so even though I had 1,001,200 points, it would appear that I only had 1200. People would see a high score of 1200 points and think, "Oh I can beat that," but after they got 32,410 points or whatever, it still wouldn't list them as high score. My 1200 would still be sitting at the top mocking them, and they would get extremely angry and think the machine was broken or something LMAO.