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You don't get to enter your initials into the machine based on how far you get. Only your score matters, and your score resets when you continue. You don't "be
by dfxm12 8y ago
You don't get to enter your initials into the machine based on how far you get. Only your score matters, and your score resets when you continue.
You don't "beat" Pac-Man when you get to the kill screen, you beat Pac-Man when you get a perfect score.
- Andrex 8y agoTrue! And I forgot that aspect of the scoring system.
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- piker 8y ago...and how does one practice to "beat" Pac-Man with a perfect score?
- jandrese 8y agoGetting to the kill screen seems like it should count as a victory. Getting your initials on the top of the high score screen counts too, if perhaps only briefly. The idea that you can't say you've won unless you've played a completely perfect game is a mindset for insane people who will never be happy.
- jakelazaroff 8y agoI think GP's point was, if every practice run costs a quarter, there's likely a correlation between wealth/resources and practice/skill.
- pasquinelli 8y agothat's if you're stuck on the idea of beating a game of skill. if you need that idea, then you have to be able to beat pacman, and so you feed quarters to get to the game ending bug. if you dispense with that idea then you play for your best score, and feeding quarters to get to the kill screen becomes a waste of time.
- TuringTest 8y agoPracticing the game is not pay-to-win, is pay-to-practice. It still requires skill to win.
- gowld 8y agoHigh score resets whenever the machine is unplugged. Score isn't the only measure of success in Pac-man or other arcade games.
- lele92n 8y agoIt’s like a metaphor saying only literal outcomes and shape of the world mean much. Whereas our ephemeral emotions which require us to stay “plugged into” an increasingly demanding cultural tradition despite the diminishing ROI most people are seeing (cause they’re ignoring the literal outcomes and shape for emotional feitishism)
- pasquinelli 8y agowhat difference does it make if the high score table is reset? if you got that score you got that score, that's your achievement, the record just commemorates it. score very much is the measure of success in pacman and its contempiraries. what else is there?
- kchr 8y agoIf you consider the high score list as you would a city wall where local graffiti writers put their tags as a territorial guestbook it makes more sense IMO :-) Sure, you know that you "won" - but there is also something to the idea of bragging about it!