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Contents 1: Before You Begin 5 How This Book Can Help You How to Use This Book Special Note 2: Pac-Man Game Definition and Rules The Game Board Scoring Points The Monsters 3: General Helpful Hints Copyright © 1982 by Ernest Zavisca and Gary Beltowski All rights reserved under the International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be produced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review, without permission of the publisher: Delair Publishing Company, Inc. 420 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10170 Pac-Man is a trademark of Midway Manufacturing Company. This book is neither authorized nor endorsed by Midway Manufacturing Company. PUBLISHED BY BUDGET BOOKS PTY. LTD. 120 TALINGA ROAD, CHELTENHAM VIC., AUST. 3192 PRINTED AT HEDGES & BELL VICTORIA ISBN 0 8326 2257 5 WITH PERMISSION BY DELAIR
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4: The Patterns 23 The Patterns for Boards 1 Through 4 The Pattern for Boards 5 Through 20 The Pattern for Boards 21 and Higher Memory Aids 5: Applying the Patterns to a Modified Pac-Man Machine 42 6: Developing Your Own Patterns
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7: Ms. Pac-Man 50 Descriptive Information Helpful Hints 8: Blank Boards for Practicing Pac-Man Patterns 61
1 Before You Begin The Pac-Man craze is spreading. Midway’s Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man have hit the arcades; Coleco has a little portable version of the Pac-Man arcade machines; and Atari’s new Pac-Man cartridges are setting records in sales, being snapped up by eager Pac-fans as quickly as they appear in retail stores. This book has been written for all those who play the Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man arcade games, and especially for those addicts who really have fun trying to improve their skills. Most of the book applies to the original Pac-Man game and the most widely distributed modified version of it, but parts are even applicable to other brand-new modifications (see chapter 6, “Developing Your Own Patterns”). We’ll tell you many tricks to use to outsmart the monsters, and our patterns will enable you to get more game time for your money than ever before. If you used to think that a score like 1,000,000 was impossible, read on! This first chapter contains important information about this book, its objectives, its audience, and its use. You should read this chapter before continuing.
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HOW THIS BOOK CAN HELP YOU The primary purpose of this book is to teach players of the Pac-Man arcade game how to improve their score significantly. There are general concepts, specific guidelines, methods, and detailed patterns that can be followed like a cookbook recipe. Most of the hints and patterns concentrate on survival rather than on taking risks in order to increase chances of a slightly higher point total at a given “board” of the game. (We use the term “board” to refer to one of the sequential screens displayed on the Pac-Man game machine.) The methods can easily be adjusted, however, if you’d like to pursue a more aggressive strategy. If you have the necessary hand-eye coordination, if you can remember the key techniques, if you are dedicated to practice and the perfection of these techniques, then it is possible that you too can approa