I’ve been playing Pac-Man Championship Edition a lot lately. It’s a great game because the matches are no more than 5 minutes long (or 10 minutes for different modes) – So if you’ve got a few minutes to kill, you can just load up Pac-Man, but that’s not why I play. I am a high-score junkie, and Pac-Man being Pac-Man, that’s really the only goal of the game. The fact that there is a global high-score list makes me drool. My high-score currently stands at 316,250, which puts me at 720th place worldwide, and, because there is also a weekly ranking, 84th for the week.

I just watched a couple videos on youtube, and realized something about the mechanics of the game I hadn’t noticed before. I’m going to have to try it out; this technique will surely put me much higher in the rankings.