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Spaz Monkey:

TOK beat me to it....

pmc:

OK, but the thing is, we were running right at each other on a straight stretch. She (I always assumed Pinky was a she) was coming straight at me so she must have been looking straight at me. This was not after they had been turned blue (I had not yet eaten a power pill at all). And there was no abrupt direction change or jogging around a corner. It was straight-shot. But it did happen right where you could turn to head for the tunnel so maybe that had something to do with it.

It happened right where "B" is marked in the attached pattern shot (except I was coming from the start position and not along the bottom of the corral).



Hey TOK: do you have a pointer to one of those patterns I wanna try it. It's sure to impress. :)

-pmc




WunderCade:

I have had the same thing happen on my Ms. Pac-man gameplay, so it isn't just a local glitch in your board, it must be a standard glitch in the game. I am not sure if it is intended by the original programmer or if it is attributed to the programming tech of the earlier 80's. I do know that entering opposite tunnels doesn't work as stated by some else here, I die every time I do that while both me and the ghost are off screen in the tunnel. So the collision detection glitch is the probable answer.

Whether or not someone becomes proficient at exploiting the glitch is a true test of a pac-master.

pmc:

Definitely a glitch. The question is, how does it work and how can it be exploited?

I found that does it 4 times to 3 different ghosts on the 9th key level. Carefully watching the ghost's eyes, I still don't see any consistency.

I'm gonna learn that pattern. The only problem is that I haven't gotten past the 5th key ever. :)

-pmc

TOK:

pmc, I don't remember the exact link but I think I found it randomly surfing Twin Galaxies. Here is the thread where it began:
http://www.twingalaxies.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5727&view=next&sid=97bf758352a15ca0250daf2188d1196e

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