The linked Don Hodges article about Level 256 is particularly fun to read, complete with a few proposed patches & a way to make the startup checksum still pass:

The linked Don Hodges article about Level 256 is particularly fun to read, complete with a few proposed patches & a way to make the startup checksum still pass: http://donhodges.com/how_high_can_you_get2.htm http://donhodges.com/how_high_can_you_get2.htm A fun quote - it certainly seems better to have an ending, even if it is not intended: > "It is probably a good thing that Pac Man has this bug in its program. If it didn’t, expert players could conceivably be able to play the game indefinitely, because whenever they get tired they can just park Pac Man in the hiding places and leave the game to go eat, sleep, or whatever, and then return to the game and continue playing. The only limiting factor would have been the length of time that the game could run without a power outage or suffering from some other hardware failure. Experts would have been able to play the game for weeks, months, even years, or more."