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I'm Clive Thompson, this is my tumblog: Things I haven't got time to blog, but need to remember.
Fri May 21
After seeing today’s custom Google logo — a functioning version of Pac-Man — it reminded me of reading this book back when I was 14 and learning the patterns to “beat” the game. There were three patterns; the third, “Bazo’s Breaker”, began at the ninth screen and lasted until either you collapsed from the strain of executing it over and over again, or you hit the 256th “kill screen” where the game itself died. So I went to Ebay and found this copy of the book, which I just bought for 12 bucks.

After seeing today’s custom Google logo — a functioning version of Pac-Man — it reminded me of reading this book back when I was 14 and learning the patterns to “beat” the game. There were three patterns; the third, “Bazo’s Breaker”, began at the ninth screen and lasted until either you collapsed from the strain of executing it over and over again, or you hit the 256th “kill screen” where the game itself died.

So I went to Ebay and found this copy of the book, which I just bought for 12 bucks.