Ohio Man Breaks Pac-Man World Record
Nearly thirty years after chomping its way into pop culture, Pac-Man still has players aiming for perfection. And that’s exactly what 40 year-old gamer David Race of Beavercreek, Ohio managed to accomplish.
According to the officials at video game record-keeping institution Twin Galaxies, Race achieved a perfect score on Namco’s venerable coin-op classic in 3 hours, 41 minutes, and 22 seconds, edging out the old record by a mere 42 seconds to make him the fastest Pac-Man completionist of all time.
To nail a perfect Pac-Man score, a player must “eat every dot, bonus prize and blue ghost across all 256 levels.” At that point, a glitch in the original game code results in an unplayable stage, effectively ending the experience with a score of 3,333,360.
Did I just wake up in 1984?
