“If someone comes out and beats my time, congratulations, more power to you,” he said. While Race has the current record for fastest perfect game, he believes he could still shave a few minutes off that time should anyone surpass his record, which has now stood for eight years, though he currently has no plans to make such an attempt. … If you’re going on a speed run, there are certain patterns where the timing has to be perfect, and if you’re off a little bit or you break pattern, that can throw off your time, which can really throw a monkey wrench into it.” “Once you start, if you don’t, you can confuse patterns. Choose a pattern and stick with it,” said Race, who achieved a perfect game in 2009, six hours after he fell 10 points shy on his first attempt. “The one thing I’d suggest for anyone who wants to attempt a perfect game, when you get to board 16 on a ‘fast’ machine or board 21 on a regular machine, don’t mix up your patterns. To achieve a perfect game in Pac-Man under tournament settings, a player must score 3,333,360 points, and Race said the key to achieving this score is to familiarize yourself with the recurring patterns that crop up from board to board. Get news and entertainment delivered to your inbox: Sign up for our daily newsletter “The whole time I was thinking, ‘Oh, gosh, I’m going to get this far and it’s going to end up where I’m going to have to quit my game or they’re going to turn the game off,” said Race, who later purchased lunch for the closing staff as a thank you for allowing him to complete his run. 9, Race traveled to Columbus and 16-Bit, where, over the course of five hours, 30 minutes and 28 seconds, he completed what he said is the first perfect game ever logged on a “fast” Pac-Man machine, somewhat to the consternation of bar staff, who allowed Race to linger 30 minutes after close as he pursued the feat. And I said, ‘You missed it by 5,000-plus points, and you want people to believe you got a perfect game.’ And that stuff doesn’t fly with me.” “But he was claiming he played a perfect game, and he was trying to say no one else had ever done it. “And then footage came out that this person didn’t really play a perfect game, and that they were lying about it,” said Race, who has logged nine Pac-Man perfect scores in a tournament setting.
Race, who described himself as both intensely competitive and protective of records related to Pac-Man, was inspired to take on the perfect game when another player claimed to have logged a perfect score on a “fast” machine during a video game convention.
“On a fast machine, 16 plays like 21,” Race said.) (There are two versions of the original arcade Pac-Man: the factory model and a “fast” version where the PCB board has been soldered in a particular spot, increasing the speed of the game play. Most recently, in early November, Race visited the Downtown Columbus location of 16-Bit Bar + Arcade, where he completed what he believes to be the first perfect score ever achieved on a “fast” Pac-Man machine. This passion for video games, and Pac-Man in particular, remains undimmed in Race, 52, a competitive gamer who holds the world record for the fastest perfect game on a standard Pac-Man machine and is currently the top-ranked Pac-Man player on Twin Galaxies, the organization tasked with documenting and authenticating video game records. I’m playing.’ It was like, ‘Forget the ballgame. “I’d say, ‘Does this one have a Pac-Man? Oh, there it is. “And I never rode the go-carts I just played the arcade games,” Race said by phone from his home in Dayton earlier this week. Growing up in Dayton, David Race would make summer treks with his father to watch the Cincinnati Reds play at the old Riverfront Stadium, though the true highlight of those trips were the stops the pair would make at Malibu Grand Prix, a now defunct family fun center.
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