![]() ![]() Scott laughed and commented that that was probably the most infrequent request he’s ever gotten. Later on that night, though, I went over to Scott and asked him if he’d load up Professor Pac-Man on the MAME cabinet he has dedicated to the games they play on the No Quarter Podcast. Seriously, though, up to that point I was feeling mighty invincible. Final score: 546,240 - just a hair shy of Strain’s 551,920. I chased an apple, though, for a bit too long, and as a result, I was cornered. I got a surprisingly large number of bananas and pears. I came so close to losing yet another life, but thankfully it was one of those passing-right-through-the-ghost-unharmed situations. Didn’t lose my first life until nearly 300,000 points, then lost another life pretty quickly. During the light blue mazes - the ones I hate - I did surprisingly well at ghost-chomping, putting me in a great position to end the banana level with a score of over 100,000. Pac-Man Turbo, adding, “I doubt it’s going to happen tonight.” I was having a great game, though. ![]() I alerted Scott that I was going to make another attempt to beat George Strain’s house high score on Ms. It was pretty quiet for a Saturday night, probably because everybody was out getting wasted. I drove out to Underground Retrocade on Saturday night to play some games. After having an overall bad week - roughness at work, illness at home, some miscellaneous stupidity - I thought I’d better have a good weekend. The picture doesn’t have much to do with the main point of this post, but hey, the last couple of entries are text only, so I thought I’d spice things up just a tad. I chased an apple for a bit too long and got myself trapped, ending the game about six thousand points shy of the house record. This picture was taken seconds before I lost my last life in my most recent high score attempt on Ms.
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