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Title: Coolest Pac-Man shirt EVER!
Post by: Brax on April 08, 2004, 08:27:58 pm
http://www.errorwear.com/huge-pacman.html

256th Level (Pac Man) -- $14.50

There is no level 256 in Pac Man. Upon reaching this summit, the game simply breaks, and this is how it looks. For that added touch, we've also set the displayed score to be 3,333,360 which is the highest possible score. If you eat every dot, every ghost, and every fruit for 255 levels, this screen and this score are your rewards. Someone is even offering $100,000 to anyone who can get past this broken level.

By far the most requested shirt at Errorwear, finally unleashed in it's NINE silk screens glory. Thanks to Alex for the idea.
Title: Re:Coolest Pac-Man shirt EVER!
Post by: Apollo on April 12, 2004, 09:30:08 pm
There is a pretty simple explanation as to why the 256th screen doesn't work and is impossible to get through by anyone EVER.
There is only 1 bit of information used for running the level counter, therefore 255 is the max.
Title: Re:Coolest Pac-Man shirt EVER!
Post by: JamesS on April 13, 2004, 12:58:04 pm
Actually that would be one byte.

1 bit can only be 0 or 1.  So it would only count to 2.
Title: Re:Coolest Pac-Man shirt EVER!
Post by: DarkKobold on April 13, 2004, 03:56:27 pm
Actually, if we want to get truely dorky - there could be a level 256 - if they used 1 - 256. They actually used 0-255 for levels. So 1 bit = 1 level. Not 2!  :o

Just pass me off as another EE dork.    ;)
Title: Re:Coolest Pac-Man shirt EVER!
Post by: Apollo on April 13, 2004, 04:31:24 pm
Quote from: JamesS on April 13, 2004, 12:58:04 pm
Actually that would be one byte.

1 bit can only be 0 or 1.  So it would only count to 2.

Yeah sorry 1 byte (8 bits).
Title: Re:Coolest Pac-Man shirt EVER!
Post by: jerryjanis on April 13, 2004, 07:30:58 pm
Quote from: DarkKobold on April 13, 2004, 03:56:27 pm
Just pass me off as another EE dork.    ;)
I don't think you're a dork.   ;)
Title: Re:Coolest Pac-Man shirt EVER!
Post by: Nailz on April 14, 2004, 12:46:20 pm
As a former ME dork, and now an IT dork, I can safely say you're all frickin' dorks!   ;D

Back to the subject at hand, has anyone ordered one of these shirts yet?  They look very cool.  I showed my wife, who appropriately enough said, and this is verbatim...  "you are SUCH a DORK!".   :P
Title: Re:Coolest Pac-Man shirt EVER!
Post by: abrannan on April 14, 2004, 01:06:53 pm
Quote from: Nailz on April 14, 2004, 12:46:20 pm
As a former ME dork, and now an IT dork, I can safely say you're all frickin' dorks!   ;D

Back to the subject at hand, has anyone ordered one of these shirts yet?  They look very cool.  I showed my wife, who appropriately enough said, and this is verbatim...  "you are SUCH a DORK!".   :P

s/DORK/GEEK and you get what my wife says at least once a week.

Of course I invite it by using things like s// notation.