What's the Highest Score ever

[GameboyReviewer]

Hi you guy's it is I the GameboyReviewer and I have a question what is the highest score ever for Pac-Man on the 2600 I was just curious its been a question thats been bothering me for awhile, same with Berzerk, and Pitfall???

[godzillajoe]

You might wanna poke around Twin Galaxies

 

http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=2...=3229&vi=25

[Snider-man]

You may want to back off on the "Reviewer" part of your moniker if you're unfamilar with the premiere videogame high score world record keeper.

 

Twin Galaxies. Read it. Learn it. Bookmark it.

[IHATETHEBEARS]

You might wanna poke around Twin Galaxies

 

http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=2...=3229&vi=25

 

Honestly, how in the hell do you score 3,000,000 points on Pac-Man??? Back in the day, I could easily get 100,000 points and roll the score. At that point, I would just quit. I did it several times, and could do it with 10 extra lives or so. But if memory serves, getting that high would take awhile - like an hour... maybe more. How the hell can you sit and play Pac-Man for over 30 hours straight? There's no pause button. How does he pee? That's insanity!

[GameboyReviewer]

You may want to back off on the "Reviewer" part of your moniker if you're unfamilar with the premiere videogame high score world record keeper.

 

Twin Galaxies. Read it. Learn it. Bookmark it.

 

On youtube I'm a reviewer for the gameboy not atari hence the name

[Sayton]

Well, he did play Journey Escape for about 3 days straight, didn't he? Or was it 80+ hours?

[IHATETHEBEARS]

Well, he did play Journey Escape for about 3 days straight, didn't he? Or was it 80+ hours?

 

That is dedicaton to a degree unknown to normal people. I'm far from normal. And that's way more than I'd do.

[+atari2600land]

How do people play for hours at a time without needing to go to the bathroom? I've always wondered that.

[Alison DeMeyer]

I finished River Raid recently, took me 8 hours or so. Since I always have to pee the only solution was to crash on purpose, and then you start off at the bridge, it's a 'sort of pause mode'. Next time I move my screen and VCS into the toilet and just play it from there.

[tcv]

That's hot.

[Snider-man]

You may want to back off on the "Reviewer" part of your moniker if you're unfamilar with the premiere videogame high score world record keeper.

 

Twin Galaxies. Read it. Learn it. Bookmark it.

 

On youtube I'm a reviewer for the gameboy not atari hence the name

 

 

Twin Galaxies covers all game systems - classic, neo-classic, modern, and handhelds including Gameboy - hence my point.

[missioncontrol]

you got to wonder if some of these scores were helped by the use of depends...

[BigO]

you got to wonder if some of these scores were helped by the use of depends...

Or recently emptied caffeinated beverage containers perhaps? Edited December 2, 2008 by BigO

[Atarifever]

How do people play for hours at a time without needing to go to the bathroom? I've always wondered that.

Most marathon gamers take advantage of pause tactics. For example, in PacMan you can put PacMan in that spot where no one can hit him, while you hit the bathroom. In Asteroids you accumulate so many ships, and collisions are so intermittent anyway, that you can just walk away for 15 minutes at a time and come back with lives to spare. Berzerk however is pure and total brutality. I assume either depends are used or one simply makes sure to go before one starts (I don't think a marathon Berzerk score take more than 8 or 12 hours anyway).

[Snider-man]

How do people play for hours at a time without needing to go to the bathroom? I've always wondered that.

Most marathon gamers take advantage of pause tactics. For example, in PacMan you can put PacMan in that spot where no one can hit him, while you hit the bathroom. In Asteroids you accumulate so many ships, and collisions are so intermittent anyway, that you can just walk away for 15 minutes at a time and come back with lives to spare.

 

That's what I did with my Halloween high score. When you drop off the kids in the "safe room," the game essentially doesn't start again until you re-enter the house.

[IHATETHEBEARS]

How do people play for hours at a time without needing to go to the bathroom? I've always wondered that.

For example, in PacMan you can put PacMan in that spot where no one can hit him, while you hit the bathroom.

 

Which spot is that?

[pinball22]

Honestly, how in the hell do you score 3,000,000 points on Pac-Man??? Back in the day, I could easily get 100,000 points and roll the score. At that point, I would just quit. I did it several times, and could do it with 10 extra lives or so. But if memory serves, getting that high would take awhile - like an hour... maybe more. How the hell can you sit and play Pac-Man for over 30 hours straight? There's no pause button. How does he pee? That's insanity!

 

My Mom used to play 2600 Pac-Man for hours and hours on one game -- there's a bug where sometimes all the ghosts get stuck in the tunnel and won't come out until you touch one, so she'd go to the bathroom whenever that happened.

[Atarifever]

How do people play for hours at a time without needing to go to the bathroom? I've always wondered that.

For example, in PacMan you can put PacMan in that spot where no one can hit him, while you hit the bathroom.

 

Which spot is that?

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Pac-Man/Tips#The_safe_spot

[NE146]

Which spot is that?

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Pac-Man/Tips#The_safe_spot

 

Wait a minute.. that links info is wrong isn't it?

 

The safe spot

 

The left side of the T section beneath the ghost pen can be used as a safe spot

 

It's the RIGHT side that's the safe spot! Even their picture shows that..

 

[+Propane13]

I finished River Raid recently, took me 8 hours or so. Since I always have to pee the only solution was to crash on purpose, and then you start off at the bridge, it's a 'sort of pause mode'. Next time I move my screen and VCS into the toilet and just play it from there.

 

Finished River Raid?

Does it end, or does it loop?

 

-John

[IHATETHEBEARS]

Which spot is that?

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Pac-Man/Tips#The_safe_spot

 

Wait a minute.. that links info is wrong isn't it?

 

The safe spot

 

The left side of the T section beneath the ghost pen can be used as a safe spot

 

It's the RIGHT side that's the safe spot! Even their picture shows that..

 

 

Oh, ok. I thought he was referring to a safe spot in the Atari 2600's version of Pac-Man.

[Red 5]

I finished River Raid recently, took me 8 hours or so. Since I always have to pee the only solution was to crash on purpose, and then you start off at the bridge, it's a 'sort of pause mode'. Next time I move my screen and VCS into the toilet and just play it from there.

 

Finished River Raid?

Does it end, or does it loop?

 

-John

 

I THINK it ends at a million points.

[Crazy Climber]

you got to wonder if some of these scores were helped by the use of depends...

Or recently emptied caffeinated beverage containers perhaps?

I believe for Journey Escape Todd used an empty Burger King Cup to pee in, I read that in a recent article.

[Alison DeMeyer]

I finished River Raid recently, took me 8 hours or so. Since I always have to pee the only solution was to crash on purpose, and then you start off at the bridge, it's a 'sort of pause mode'. Next time I move my screen and VCS into the toilet and just play it from there.

 

Finished River Raid?

Does it end, or does it loop?

 

-John

 

 

Exclamation marks come up instead of a score.

[[d2f]Iggy*SJB]

Which spot is that?

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Pac-Man/Tips#The_safe_spot

 

Wait a minute.. that links info is wrong isn't it?

 

The safe spot

 

The left side of the T section beneath the ghost pen can be used as a safe spot

 

It's the RIGHT side that's the safe spot! Even their picture shows that..

 

 

Oh, ok. I thought he was referring to a safe spot in the Atari 2600's version of Pac-Man.

 

There is one in the Atari 2600 version. I used it to take naps during my weekend marathon. I can't remember exactly where it is, but if memory serves, it was somewhere in the upper right quadrant.