Q&A for How to Win in Pac Man

8 bits can at max hold up to 256. When you get to this number, the game glitches. It was a problem with the console it originally released on, not the game itself.

Because you need to get all the dots to complete the level. Since half of the level is blocked off, you can't finish.

Get as many points as possible. The game doesn't end until you lose all your lives or get to screen 256, which is the game's "kill screen" that can't be completed.

Obtain 10,000 points.

About 2-3 seconds, since they have to get across the maze to go all the way back home.

There is no end to most of the games. In most games, you ether crash, or the game keeps getting more and more corrupted until it's so corrupted you can't see it anymore.

No; with limited storage space to hold programming code in this era, unnecessary elements were generally abandoned so that more space could be dedicated to the game itself. However, the game will glitch out when you reach screen 256.

There are no checkpoints, so you will have to restart the game from the first level.

The game can be set to change the exact number of lives that each player starts off with as well as the level of difficulty. The default number of lives given at the beginning of Pac-Man is three.

Yes. However, you can only get one more (at 10000 points). After that, no more lives are awarded.

You have won already. At level 256, this is impossible. If you run into a ghost, you only have to grab the rest of the pellets.

You will know that the ghosts are chasing you when they do a 180 from their so-called "home corners."