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Pac-Man
Verdict
There is no win condition in the usual sense. The original arcade game has a level 256 "kill screen", where an integer overflow corrupts half the maze and makes it impossible to complete — which is the de facto end of the game and the basis of the perfect-score record.
Why people argue about this
People often think that Pac-Man has a clear win condition based on reaching level 256, but they misunderstand the official verdict which states there is no true "win" as intended by design; instead, it's considered the game's end due to an overflow error corrupting the maze layout.
Send this to your friend — argument over.
There is no win condition in the usual sense. The original arcade game has a level 256 "kill screen", where an integer overflow corrupts half the maze and makes it impossible to complete — which is the de facto end of the game and the basis of the perfect-score record.
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