![]() ![]() The game, which is new this week for iOS and Android, is “inspired by the famous Level 256 glitch,” a bug in the original Pac-Man that broke the walls of the level and replaced them with glitchy alphanumeric soup. In the new game, that glitch catastrophe chases you from the bottom of the screen. ![]() You swipe up, down, left and right to keep Pac-Man moving upward and out of harm’s way, dodging ghosts and grabbing pellets as quickly as you can while the map unfolds in front of you. It’s fun in a different sort of way from more traditional Pac-Man games like 2010’s fabulous Championship Edition DX, because you can’t actually master or “win” the game. 256 is an endless, randomly generated sort of thing, and you can’t achieve the same sort of mastery that you can in a traditional Pac-Man game. It’s a leaderboard chase, where you try to beat your own high score and the high scores of others, deriving satisfaction from advancement, not completion. ![]()
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