What’s the Pac-Man highest score? Well, it depends on what version of the game you’re playing. Due to the original arcade version having a kill screen where the game physically cannot be completed, there’s a hard limit to the number of levels you can play, even if you never die.
With that in mind, in the original Pac-Man, what’s the highest score you can obtain? We’ve got all the information below.
To play a perfect game and get the highest score in the original game, you’ll need to eat every single dot. Get every single fruit, and feast on every single ghost in every single one of the 256 levels. All without losing even 1 life. And after all that, the top score you can get in the original Pac-Man is 3,333,360 points.
The first reported perfect game for Pac-Man was reported by Billy Mitchell on July 3, 1999. However, due to alleged evidence of using an emulator for his Donkey Kong records, all of his early arcade records were removed from Twin Galaxy’s official leader boards. This caused a lawsuit against Twin Galaxies, which was eventually settled. These records also form part of the upcoming at the time of writing lawsuit against Australian video journalist Karl Jobst, who has chronicled the unravelling of Mitchell’s record history.
The undisputed first perfect game of resulting in the Pac-Man highest score belongs to Rick Fothergill. Setting the record on the July 31, 1999.
Getting the perfect score means mastering all the game’s patterns and ghost behaviors. Plus, the infamous 256th level, known for its split-screen glitch, adds extra difficulty. Marathon sessions like this that require perfection for over four hours often makes or breaks a runner in this 11th hour. Even a single mistake will throw out hours of dedication to the record run. As a result, only 10 people have been verifiably confirmed to have achieved the 3,333,360 score. (11 if you consult the archive, where Billy’s disputed runs have been reinstated)
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