![]() ![]() Sometimes you can’t dodge that fate, except in one particular instance. I’m not certain if this is (gasp!) a glitch, or deliberate, but you should have noticed that amongst other metrics, Pac-Man 256 keeps your current cumulative single run pellet count tracking behind you until you double back or go over an empty pellet patch. Looks like my pellet count is going to stop short at this corner… In all sorts of ways, this game would be much easier without the ghosts, but knowing the enemy gives you a big edge.Ĥ)Skip The Corners To Keep Your Pellet Count Alive Glitchy Ghost is a teleporting pain in the backside. Groups of green ghosts block the way, but they’re mostly just points waiting to be eaten. Blue Ghosts go around the block endlessly. Every other ghost is quite predictable orange ghosts turn at each corner, dark purple ghosts dash along straight lines only when they see Pac-Man, while groups of lighter purple ghosts try to track him from beneath. Only the Red Ghost (“Blinky”) actively chases you, and even then only for a while ditto the grey sleeping ghost. The randomised nature of Pac-Man 256 does make it tricky to succeed every time, but knowing the patterns of each ghost in the game makes a huge difference to your strategy. That doesn’t mean the powerups are useless - if you can’t survive you can’t score points - but they’re definitely the second-best option if you have that choice. Why? Because the points stack, whereas most powerups are more about simple survival. If you’ve got a choice between any powerup or the power pill, you should always head for the power pill. Many of them either just allow you to dodge peril, or quickly destroy ghosts with minimal impact on your score. The thing is, they’re nowhere near as powerful, or as high scoring as the classic power pill. The new powerups are cool, and kind of funny the first few times you use them. Pac-Man with frikkin’ laser beams coming out of his head is cool and all - but the classic power pellet is still his drug of choice. You can’t “win” Pac-Man 256, but it’s possible to rack up reasonably solid scores simply by concentrating on keeping Pac-Man’s fruit intake high.Ģ) Power Pill or Powerup? Power Pill, Every Single Time This means eating ghosts whenever you can, and chasing down fruit, not just for its own innate point value, but also that precious, precious score multiplier. ![]() ![]() In order to ‘win’ within that context, what you need to relentlessly focus on are point scoring opportunities. Surviving for a good long time is satisfying, but it’s perfectly possible to have a lengthy game of Pac-Man 256 (which by its standards might only be a couple of minutes) and only score a few thousand points. Wacky powerups are nice, but the name of the game is scoring big points. Here’s some quick tips to help you make the most of each game. Also, you’re going to die a lot, and sometimes in an unfair manner. It’s worth pointing out that Pac-Man 256 is a randomised endless eater/runner, and as such there’s no such thing as a sure thing. The one thing that playing it relentlessly has done has given me some insight into how to maximise your scoring possibilities. As if that wasn't enough, ol' Pac still has to deal with the usual ghosts hot on his trail.I think it’s fair to say that I’m rather dangerously obsessed with Hipster Whale’s Pac-Man 256. And this time, it is the Glitch, those random assortment of colored letters, numbers, and symbols, that is trying to catch Pac-Man. This time, the maze extends infinitely into the beyond. It caused glitches in graphics and gameplay that, in essence, made that level and the game unbeatable.Ĭrossy Road's developers took that historical fact, turned it on its head, and turned it into an adrenaline pumping game. Of course, players start at level 1 but once they get past level 256, the counter wraps around to level 0, a level the game wasn't designed to handle. As such, it can really only represent 0 to 255. The original game used only a single byte or 8 bits to store the level number. As the name implies, it's a bug that happens when you reach level 256. ![]() The infamous "level 256 glitch" was a bug that plagued the original arcade version of the Pac-Man game, due to both hardware limitation and programming error. ![]()
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