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There are actually a lot of good resources about this software glitch online, but I decided I'd have my own go at explaining it. This one was a lot of fun to make--especially animating the glitched tiles being drawn to the screen.

I really want to revisit Pac-Man in the future, I might make a video about the ghosts' AI.

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Pac-Man Kill Screen Explained

You may have heard about Pac-Man's game-ending kill screen, but have you ever wondered what actually causes it? It's all explained right here. LINKS Twitter (updates): https://twitter.com/RetroGameMechEx Patreon (support): https://www.patreon.com/rgmechex Discord (discussion): https://discord.me/rgmechex PATRONS Thank you everyone for your help! It means so much to me. Markus Persson, Ange Albertini, Avi Drissman, Chris, Jay Logan, Martin Trozell, Scott Harper, Robert Hunt, Larry Koubiak, Master of Pants, Joshua Goyder, Rareș Gosman, Greg Miell, Manuel Tiedtke, Tianyu Ge, Owen Christensen, Stephen1704, 333Rich333, Daniel L, Juli Mallett, Glenn Sugden, Jordan Wiens, Chell Jones, David Mazarro, Steven, D Money, LiraNuna, Austin Hughes, Vaendryl, null, Hex Witch Circe, Brandon Pelfrey, Curtis Ware, Corey Ogburn, Scott Chamberlain, Nig Nogginton, Garret Kelly, Michael Gerow, Jake Hickman, Joel Kuhn, Dan Shedd, Robert Schultz, Tina Wuest, Xander Webb, ParoXoN, 4F Panda, Max Roncace, Some Sheila, Micah Elizabeth Scott, JockeTF, Chris Singleton, Dave Voyles, Stephan Packard, vulpine mocha latte, Corrodias, silsha fux, Aaron, Brian Henriquez, hyperforce, Alex Yancey, Alejandro Cadavid, Leon, Matthew, dan, Ryan, John Armstrong, Christopher Mayfield, Vangald, Hans Eriksson, Josh Wolfe, Zach Zimmerman, Luke Chang, Ben Salvidrim, Navarro Parker, Matthew Bettcher, Joseph Edwards, Andrew, Paolo Pisati, Vardman Turner, Wenting, Jeru Sanders, Q, Dan Balestrieri, Adam Fritzler, Robert Butler, Sean C, Pat Randell, Michael Furtak, Martin Harding, Douglas Confere, Daniel, Bruno Valadão Cunha, Arnt Richard Johansen, DrunkCat, Skylar Brown, cab404, Matt Coburn, Kevin Turner, briandef, David, Matt Godbolt, & thegirlg33k

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Anonymous

nitpicking: @4:10 you say "... instead of class C ..." rather than "case C" as is written in the CC. @10:25 the CC is wrong; it says "the malfunctioning of them algorithm" which is a typo for ".. of the algorithm .." Still love it.

rgmechex

Nitpicking is appreciated! I don't know how I could run through the whole thing like ten times without hearing that mistake. I did fix the typo in the CC however--thanks!