Pacman 9th Key Pattern by Tad Perry

From Joystik mag.. this is a great entertaining "stunt" pattern which has lots of close calls including passing through 2 ghosts! Mame was used with a rack skip which explains the low score.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Pacman
• Pac
• Man
• Pattern
• 9th
• key

[Skynet74]

Why is your score only 12,000 with 9 Keys? That doesn't even make sense.

[bittz]

It makes sense if you read what I wrote: "Mame was used with a rack skip which explains the low score". Play Pacman in Mame, and then hit F1 to advance stages.

[RanYakumoShikigami]

@dave88rock I think what you specifically need to pull it off is that Pac-man has to have a closed mouth when his sprite touches the ghost.

[pacmantab]

Man! Wish they would have had a contest like that close to where I lived BITD!!

[pacmantab]

I remember reading about your tips and tricks in the magazines BITD. Cool to see this pattern in action!

[tadperry]

Hey, thanks for putting this out there! I remember making this pattern late night at Arnold's (an all-night arcade right next to the University of Washington campus that no longer exists). I just kept running right at the ghosts and seeing what they'd do until I came up with something that went all the way!

Hehehehe.

Tad "Yes It's Really Me" Perry

[Jaxguy35]

I cant get the ninth key pattern to work

because my mame controller isnt fast enough

pacman slows down a bit and messes up the

pattern, how can I fix the controller to

operate pacman at the correct speed for ninth

key pattern?

[dave88rock]

Tad was a master of many games, I used to watch him play at Arnolds on the Ave. in Seattle. I believe this pattern originally appeared in joystick magazine. For those who don't know you pretty much need a pattern to go through a ghost, it's happens rarely by chance, but can be repeated with a pattern.

[dhptube]

I was a great free-styler, so I'd do well at the 9th key and could beat most anyone, but these guys had a machine at their house that they'd rigged so they could stop the game by hitting the start button. Kind of unfair. We memorized their pattern and nearly beat them. We nearly beat them but one of the guys got the highest score he'd ever gotten at around 800,000 and won. We were WAY better players than these guys, but they had the jump on us. Oh, well.

[dhptube]

I was a great free-styler, so I'd do well at the 9th key and could beat most anyone, but these guys had a machine at their house that they'd rigged so they could stop the game by hitting the start button. Kind of unfair. We memorized their pattern and nearly beat them. We nearly beat them but one of the guys got the highest score he'd ever gotten at around 800,000 and won. We were WAY better players than these guys, but they had the jump on us. Oh, well.

[dhptube]

Great Pattern. My brother and I played in a $10,000 putt-putt sponsored tournament where we were beaten out by a couple of older guys who'd developed a 9th key

pattern that also went through a guy. No one had ANY

9th key patterns at the time. The game was still

too new.

[zsyed12345678]

Nicely done