Perfect Pac-Man Patterns (Level 10: 1st Gumdrop)

[@BiffsGamingVideos]

This was done on modified ROM so that I could jump to a particular level. It was the only way I could memorize the levels easily. It would take too long to try the 9th key or the kill screen on a real machine. As I do have a Pac-Man arcade machine, it's cool. I did change the text at the top to indicate this: "L00" means start at level 1, "P3" means 3 Pac-Men and "B10" mean bonus Pac-man at 10,000 points. These last 2 are dip switch settings. These all were hard coded into the ROM.

[@ZiroTheGameplayCoder]

I'm like, there's no way he's gonna catch all four ghost each time, especially in these later levels, when they start flashing as soon as you get a power pellet. Goddammit, he did it again. 🙃 - Ziro out.

[@BiffsGamingVideos]

1st gumdrop is the same 2 second pattern as 1st apple, 1st grape and 2nd grape. Without getting into an explanation of how it was codes in assembly, I can tell you the settings on these 4 are the same. So just learn the 1st apple and all 4 will work.

[@BiffsGamingVideos]

Back in the day, we called this the 'bell'. You don't eat bells. That doesn't even make sense. However, it's really a yellow gumdrop. What did you used (or do) call it?

[@greenknight9000]

See, the problem with that is that you also eat a Galaxian Starship and a literal Key - it kinda contradicts that statement. It's also officially referred to as a bell by the designers and was redrawn to look at a different angle in games like Super Pac-Man

[@BiffsGamingVideos]

@@greenknight9000 The key is the key to the candy case. The candy is locked up, so you need a key to get to it. As far as the The Galaxian goes, it was obviously from Galaxian but let's just say it is a candy marshmallow. OK, I'm stretching there, but as a kid I always thought that was kind of cool.