5 Fun Facts About Pac-Man

1. Pac-Man was designed to be endless, but its not.

The game was designed to go on forever as long as the player was good enough to keep at least one life. However at Level 256 a bug prevents you from being able to defeat the level, therefore making Level 256 the final round of Pac-Man.

2. You can only ever earn a certain amount of points.

Since you can only reach Level 256, there is a maximum amount of points you can get in the game, 3,333,360. You can achieve this score by eating every dot, power pellet, ghost, and fruit, while never losing a life, and then using those lives to get as many points as possible in the final round.

3. Those dots that Pac-Man eats, weren't always dots.

I know that's hard to swallow :P, but originally they were going to be cookies.

4. The ghosts that Pac-Man eats, weren't always ghosts.

They were actually referred to as monsters on the original arcade cabinets.

5. The ghosts have their own personalities.

The red ghost chases Pac-Man.
The pink ghost's mission is to ambush Pac.
The blue ghost does what he will.
And last but not least the orange ghost wants to get close to Pac-Man like the red ghost, but then changes direction to the lower left corner of the maze if it gets too close.



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