Man from Ohio breaks the Pac Man World Record!

[jeremysart]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/ohio-man-breaks-pac-man-world-record/1353236

 

Was it anyone from AA

[Atari Dogs]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/ohio-man-breaks-pac-man-world-record/1353236

 

Was it anyone from AA

And cheetah from Cincinnati becomes fastest land mammal. GO OHIO.

 

http://news.aol.com/article/ohio-cheetah-breaks-speed-record/665107

[2600Lives]

Hah! Fuck you, Billy Mitchell! Go shove a bottle of that nasty hot sauce right up your bunghole!

[STICH666]

Hah! Fuck you, Billy Mitchell! Go shove a bottle of that nasty hot sauce right up your bunghole!

Yeah he really does have an ego issue. I knew kids like that in high school. Most of them grew out of it. It seems he didn't.

[VectorGamer]

Hah! Fuck you, Billy Mitchell! Go shove a bottle of that nasty hot sauce right up your bunghole!

Yeah he really does have an ego issue. I knew kids like that in high school. Most of them grew out of it. It seems he didn't.

 

I think Mitchell is going to have a hard time being #2.

 

So, which is harder - the Pac-Man perfect score or the Missile Command record?

[maibock]

Hah! Fuck you, Billy Mitchell! Go shove a bottle of that nasty hot sauce right up your bunghole!

Yeah he really does have an ego issue. I knew kids like that in high school. Most of them grew out of it. It seems he didn't.

 

I think Mitchell is going to have a hard time being #2.

 

So, which is harder - the Pac-Man perfect score or the Missile Command record?

 

They are both impressive in their own right, however I feel playing MC is a bit more challenging as the game has a more random type of game play. Pacman is more learning the patterns. Amazing display of play there though..

[Nukey Shay]

Given that the task would take considerably longer (what was it...nine hours or something?), Missile Command. When the game awards you (due to a bug) with more cities than it was designed to...more than a decent player would actually need...the sole obstacle becomes fatigue.

[gdement]

I remember reading about somebody getting a perfect game in Pac Man. I figured that was as good as it gets...

 

It never occurred to me now they can compete to see who does it the fastest.

[Yurkie]

I remember reading about somebody getting a perfect game in Pac Man. I figured that was as good as it gets...

 

It never occurred to me now they can compete to see who does it the fastest.

 

That is great!!! Billy needed to be taken down a notch. He was so smug in King of Kong about the Pac-Man record.

 

I wish there was a "bowing, I am not worthy smiley" Congrats David Race!

[iwan-iwanowitsch-goratschin]

Poor Billy Boy................

[Lord Thag]

Yeah, Mr Mitchell does have a bit of an ego problem, doesn't he? That said, I know a couple of people who know/have met him in real life. He's actually a pretty nice guy, just kind of stuck on himself.

 

I think it's because a lot of the people who go after these world records (the ones that get a lot of press anyway) tend to base their whole identity around the fact that they are #1 on whatever game they are #1 at. It's their whole life.

 

There's a funny story from CGE about one of the guys in that King of Kong movie. Not Billy or Steve, but one of the other ones, I forget which. Anyway, this tool kept walking around CGE bragging loudly that he could beat anyone at his pet game. He was really being an ass about it, and challenging everyone.

 

At which point, this like eleven year old kid accepts the challenge, and proceeds to completely pwn his ass. He got so mad he turned purple. Was veeeeery funny.

[misspent_youth]

There's a funny story from CGE about one of the guys in that King of Kong movie. Not Billy or Steve, but one of the other ones, I forget which. Anyway, this tool kept walking around CGE bragging loudly that he could beat anyone at his pet game. He was really being an ass about it, and challenging everyone.

 

At which point, this like eleven year old kid accepts the challenge, and proceeds to completely pwn his ass. He got so mad he turned purple. Was veeeeery funny.

 

Sounds like Brian "Donkey Kong kill screen coming up" Kuh to me. Based on nothing more than how he was portrayed in King of Kong, which is probably unfair.

[BDW]

Billy is a dick, I will see him in hell.

 

 

Also, Lord Thag, if you can track down that story, I would be eternally grateful.

[2600Lives]

A couple of years ago at a game convention, there was a KoF '98 tourney. One guy was all bragging and crap, then I come up and destroy him with my first guy (Terry). He never even KO'd one of my characters. He literally threw a tantrum, like stomping his feet tantrum. Was great.

[Goochman]

MC is def a harder feat to beat IMHO - as mentioned Pac Man is about pattern recognition and ghost corralling.

 

As for Billy - funny so many people hate him - must be the T.O. effect. Most folks that are tops in some form or fashion have an ego, Billy is no different than Roy Schilt, Steve W and others. He's just gotten more face time.

[maibock]

MC is def a harder feat to beat IMHO - as mentioned Pac Man is about pattern recognition and ghost corralling.

 

As for Billy - funny so many people hate him - must be the T.O. effect. Most folks that are tops in some form or fashion have an ego, Billy is no different than Roy Schilt, Steve W and others. He's just gotten more face time.

 

One could easily argue that Roy "Mr Awesome" Shildt is in a special league of his own..

[jboypacman]

Oh no does this mean we are going to see a King of Kong 2: The Pac-Man battles soon? lol.

[stirrell]

I have a question about a perfect Pac Man game. I understand eating every bonus and dot but how does one eat every blue ghost across all the levels? Isn't the amount of time that a power pellet affects the ghosts in later levels very short (just a blip)? How does one have time to get all four blue ghosts in the later levels?

 

Regarding Billy Mitchell and King of Kong, I have heard him and others complain about how he was portrayed due to editing. However, I'd have to say that if you give the documentary makers as many examples of being a jerk as he did then you probably are, in fact, a jerk. At least in the context of competitive video game playing. But, that competitive drive and arrogance is probably what makes him such a good player.

 

Scott

[Nukey Shay]

The flicker is long enough to eat all of them if the monsters have been grouped close enough to each other and the pill. AFAIK, the timer doesn't bump if more than one collision is happening (the "eating monster" pause takes priority).

 

You can see examples on this page...which contains videos of working patterns that allow you to collect every possible point:

 

http://nrchapman.com/pacman/

[stirrell]

The flicker is long enough to eat all of them if the monsters have been grouped close enough to each other and the pill. AFAIK, the timer doesn't bump if more than one collision is happening (the "eating monster" pause takes priority).

 

You can see examples on this page...which contains videos of working patterns that allow you to collect every possible point:

 

http://nrchapman.com/pacman/

 

Thanks, Nukey. In the videos on that page (for the last key level), no ghosts are eaten. Reading the article about the Ohio man, I thought it meant that you had to eat all four blue ghosts for every power pellet to get a perfect game. That never seemed possible to me, so I was confused. Apparently it isn't possible to eat the ghosts on the later levels.

[TwinChargers]

Any word out of Billy since this has happened? I'd imagine he'd want this title back.

[DaytonaUSA]

Nice that a fellow Ohioan beat the time. I wore my Pac Man ghost shirt the day I heard of it a few days back .

[VectorGamer]

I just watched Chasing Ghosts again last week and Billy Mitchell said that every fruit and every ghost had to be eaten "or you're done."

[gdement]

The flicker is long enough to eat all of them if the monsters have been grouped close enough to each other and the pill. AFAIK, the timer doesn't bump if more than one collision is happening (the "eating monster" pause takes priority).

 

You can see examples on this page...which contains videos of working patterns that allow you to collect every possible point:

 

http://nrchapman.com/pacman/

 

That's a really cool site. Those patterns are crazy - the 1sec pattern I watched looked very unnatural, nothing like how a normal person would play.

 

Are you allowed to die in a "perfect" game? The article doesn't say. I would say no, but I'm not the law.

 

Supposing someone messes up and loses the pattern, dying would be a way to reset the ghosts.

Edited September 16, 2009 by gdement

[Nukey Shay]

You are not allowed to die in a perfect game until the final split-screen level has been reached...and then only after the "persistant" dots on the right half of the screen have been eaten (because these dots will reappear on level restart...allowing them to be eaten by each reserve life). If you die at any other time, the maximum score cannot be achieved -at all-.