![]() ![]() It’s hard to overstate how satisfying it is to pull this off. ![]() It’s a dynamite concept to build a Pac-Man game upon, and the game is already a winner just by its basic idea alone. So, developer Hipster Whale had the clever idea of making a spiritual sequel to the original game where Pac-Man is being chased by this glitch and has to traverse an endless maze to outrun it. This excellent video explains this glitch in detail: Pac-Man Kill Screen Explained (Youtube) The part of the game’s program responsible for drawing the fruit level counter goes crazy and tries to fill the screen with 256 fruits and ends up getting sprite data from the wrong parts of memory, which is why you see a bunch of numbers and letters everywhere. Without going too much into the details, this happens because of something called integer overflow where the 8 bits used to hold the level counter can only hold a number as big as 255 and reverts back to zero if you go any higher. Reaching level 256 results in the right half of the screen being filled with garbled sprites and the dots you’re supposed to eat to beat the level disappear, so you can’t go any further. The original Pac-Man arcade game was supposed to go on forever as long as the player could survive, but a glitch in the game’s code made this impossible. I’m going to be reviewing this game and also offer some tips to help you get higher scores. Pac Man 256 is available on most major platforms, including consoles, but it’s a mobile game at heart. Score attack games have made a huge comeback too, which is even more surprising to me. ![]() It’s really interesting to me that the mobile game market paved the way for a revival of simple arcade games, which had been somewhat of a niche thing for many years. I’m glad games like Pac-Man 256 are being made. ![]()
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