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One man’s incredible conquering of Pac Man

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Long before the hunt for Pokemon was in full force, Pac Man was the digital character you wanted to take to the next level.

Well, one man committed a great deal of time, energy and focus to master the arcade game, which was a staple of the 1980s.

Billy Mitchell is considered the greatest arcade gamers of all time, after being the first person to get a perfect score on Pac Man - 3,333,360 points.

In a video about his accomplishment, he explains that a player has to make it to level 21, when the game is most challenging. From there on, it’s a lot of repetition.

“You have to navigate all the way to board 255 doing the same repetitive thing,” he says. “You can’t miss a dot, a prize, a blue man. You can’t die once.”

Once a player makes it to level 256, things start to get weird. At that point, the game has enough memory to display only the left side of the board, while the rest of the screen is jumbled computer code.

Once all the dots are eaten and you’ve sneaked your way past all the ghosts, the end is quite anticlimactic.

“You get to the end, and there’s nothing to do but die,” Mitchell explains.