A closer look
Billy Mitchell achieved the first perfect score in Pac-Man in 1999 by navigating two hundred and fifty-five boards without losing a single life and eating every dot, fruit, and ghost, culminating in a score of 3,333,360 points before the game famously glitches out. Decades later, his records were controversially stripped by Twin Galaxies over allegations of using arcade emulators instead of original hardware, igniting one of the most hilariously intense legal dramas in competitive gaming. It is genuinely mesmerizing that the highest echelons of retro arcade high scores involve adult men engaging in literal defamation lawsuits and hiring forensic analysts over a forty-year-old game about a yellow circle running away from pastel ghosts
