How to Win at Pacman Part 1 - Patterns for every level 

I remember always making it to the 9th Key back in 1980. The cops would come marching into the candy store and rip the plug out of the wall and tell me to go to school. I would tell them that I was suspended and that they owed me a quarter.

Also, to those saying this doesn't work, some ROMS have slightly different ghost patterns, so some adjustments might be required. This version will work on the original arcade cabinet, MAME, 60-in-1, etc.

I bought a booklet back in the early '80's that had all the patterns to each screen in it. I laid on my bed one evening and memorized every pattern and started playing like a pro!

I used this to Platinum Pac-Man World Re Pac. It still took me hours to do it, but I probably wouldn't have done it at all without your guide. THANK YOU!

To those who are complaining, you're right that this doesn't give you a perfect score, and does require a bit of improvising at the end of each pattern. However, they are a heck of a lot easier to learn than the full pattern for each level. So this can be considered the "beginners method", that is good to start out with and should still improve your score.

It gets really freaking hard to improvise the four corners (especially top left) on boards 12-20, seeing as they eventually stop turning blue

very good 9th key pattern. 52 seconds to complete, so can complete 60 boards in 52 minutes or the game in less than 4 hours. More importantly, no pauses or 180 degree turns, which are what can break a pattern.

I never knew about the patterns when I played this in my youth, but I'd make a quarter last forever!

Your pattern two got me the platinum. Thank you!

This really helped me improve my game skills

I had a book from the early 80’s that helped me and soon afterwards I made it to the keys with no problem. Beforehand, I was lucky to make it to the second peach or first apple!

Thank you for this I have a pacman arcade1up and I suck at it after learning these I was able to get to the galaxian icon maze I still have a little bit of troubke learning the apple pattern but I have most of it down and then wing the rest it tends to work most or the time

i actually learned the first pattern on my own when i first played pac man... so i got pretty good at it

Im using a namco plug and play, the pattern works up untill clyde is supposed to come out. then it goes dowb hill. Is tbere a pattern for my version?

jeez after all of these year's, i had forgot the exact pattern was very close but not quite, many thank's!

Watching this cause my aunt has a Pac-Man machine and I wanna set the highest score I can 😂

Awesome! Thanks for this.

This video helped me pass 50,000 points today! Thanks!

This really help me so much.

Do these patterns work for the Arcade1up Namco Legacy? I tried using them and they seem to work half the time…but that could be user error also..

Can't wait to try it out

just got the pacman world remaster platinum with this!! the apple pattern is life changing

Thanks. I’ve been visiting a local arcade recently, just wanna show off to my friends I guess lol

This is really cool

Does anyone know where I can get this rom for mame?

When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a "history of the entire world I guess" meme lol

Back in my days with Atari I found a pattern after 10,000 points starting with the top left pill.... I repeated this pattern until 100,000 points (which at that time my hands gave up on pain). But pain aside, I could have gone non-stop for eternity.

THAT WAS EPIC. WHY DOES ONLY HAVE 237,356 VIEWS?

Pattern on my Pac-Man is different so I just made my own

If one is going for high score ignoring the ‘fruit’ is an error. That’s where you ultimately get the most points, especially in the key levels. I learned this strategy from Uston’s book. When you get to the key levels each one - they appear twice per level - is worth 5000 points. Unfortunately in the ROM I play Uston’s ‘Pattern 4’ only partially works before it breaks down. Even though the rom I have shows the game running in ‘slow’ mode none of Uston’s early patterns work like they did on the original arcade machine. I’m wondering if there are other roms available which are closer to the original. The best I can do presently is get to the first or second apple level with a score of only a bit over 24000. Also, if completing the boards are what you’re after, go for it.

does anyone know if these patterns work on plug and play devices that use the original arcade roms?

Thank you, this made me complete the level 9 trofee in pacman world repac

I know this is super old but I'm trying to make an AI to run through automatically each level but would that work or do the ghosts move different every time on the same level

Cool video, yours in very similar to a page i found. I have the Jakks Pacific Super Pac-Man TV game. It has Pac Man in it. The first screen works a treat but after that it's completely different. I've been working on slight variations that work but it's frustrating. Any tips?

Works on Pac-Man World Re-Pac. Thanks for the guide.

Hey I don’t know if your gonna see this but I think it’s just your emulator but my plug n play for board 5 when I use that pattern when I’m at the top and try to come down to work my way to the middle pinky is always there no matter what

Man some of you guys must really be great at Pac-Man😁👍🏿 🆒

I came here because I realised "winging it" wasn't working ☹️

Thanks 🎉

Could this work for Pacman world repac?

Thanks I was able to get to round 17 doing this

Will this work on an Arcade1Up Deluxe Pacman machine?

Just curious, why is "The Kiss" necessary? Why can't we just skip those 2 dots, head to the top left, and start eating power pellets (getting the two dots once we get down again to the bottom left)?

Thanks for the info

I never learned how to play pac-man very well. Maybe I might do it with this so I can play a perfect game some day.

What’s better for higher keys. You’re ninth key pattern or Bazos Breaker?

Which version is the Arcade Game Series Pac-Man?

How to use fruit?

Wearing Grunkle Stan's fez while watching this.

doesnt work on my mini pacman arcade handheld thing… the ghosts dont go in the same patterns

And another thing that really sucks that I've noticed about this NES classic edition retro 620 games built in the system is that a lot of the games do seem like they're knock offs and a lot of the games are named differently and there's actually a couple of the same game just a different name so it's really not 620 games cuz they use a different name for the same exact game that already in there so maybe that's why the patterns don't work for me

I Don’t Know if it’s just Me but I tried this pattern and Pinky stays in that corner he doesn’t come down so I find myself improvising!

I choose this as the pacman video..!

I don’t know why but my ghosts follow a different pattern. I have the Pac-Man that plugs Into the tv so...

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I need help. I’m using the arcade 1 up pac-Man game. The third pattern only works through the second key. My game goes from fruit to something that looks like a bird (2 boards of that) then it switches to something that looks like a pile of gold (also two boards) then it switches to the keys. Your fourth pattern does not work on my third key board either. Any help will be appreciated😃

How do you get so many lives? The arcade version only gives one extra life the entire game!

where can you play the arcade version of pacman?

How did you get this version of pac-man? I only found pacman like it is now, and not like the original.

My wife doesn't stand a chance!

What are you playing on because it’s not pixelized and the patterns don’t work on my Pac-Man plug and play

The ghosts try and corner you in a position where you cannot escape if I am not mistaken

For some reason this does not want to work on my pac man. I dont know why

How does he end the game with 5 lives? Like i know you get another one at 10k points but what are the other milestones?

Would this work on the 1uparcade Pacman?

There is a bug when i touch the ghost i dint die i just got passed on it nothing happend i dont nkow what happend that was on google

Why the pacman is different in gameboy advanced?

I own one of those vintage consoles with Pac Man on it and lucky if I get to the first Galaxian or second bell. The patterns aren’t the same on this!

On my arcade1up machine, pattern 3 stops working on the 5th key, can someone help?

I used to get seven keys but my memory fails me now

The apple pattern I used at the game room on the original pac-man was different than this.

so thats what buckner and garcia were saying huh lol

Time to revise this instead of my gcse's

Does this only work on the physical arcade machine?

Pattern only works for round 1 of my Pac-man, every other level that this gets used I lose within the first 10 seconds.

Does it work on the nes versión?

That's how!

Hey very interesting video ;-D Im playing pac man and think its (1980 version) and playing on PC and notice that you can't use this pattern? The ghosts are just going around totally random all the time.. so its fricking hard reach level 10 !! i thought that all pac man versions was the same, but that's not the case.. For every level the ghosts takes a new route.. And there are no cheating code you can use what so ever.. i was reaching level 13 and got 85K points "that was not easy".. The pac man game was delivered by neave .com #stevepiers are you aware of this version and do you know what version that could be? I Can't find that information on there web pages (neave .com)

the most difficult pattern for me was "the ninth key"

This doesn’t work for me. I have a mini machine so idk if that has something to do with it

For the second pattern when you start to do the same thing as the first pattern the pink ghost goes into the middle square instead of up and always gets me. Any advice?

worked

That's not the original 1980's programing, I could get to 36 key level and the ghost still turned blue. This particular tutorial must be from a different era as I remember being able to get all 4 ghost on each power pill am the way to the 3rd key then I was only able to get 3 ghost per pill. Our patterns were different too. We were able to get all the dots and both fruits before eating pwr pills and ghost for a maximum point score on each fruit level. Only the first 3 keys were able to score max level points. If anyone knows the original 5 patterns. Let me know!

😊😀 you show those gost :) whos boss :D

Thought they were called energizers

How is this by any means a coherent pattern? I see what he’s saying but he makes very in the moment decisions several times in the video, which very much lacks any form of ‘pattern.’

Maybe just me, but these patterns seems very difficult to learn. Maybe practice and memorization? It must take hours to commit to memory

5 lives? How?

I am just gonna eat all of the tiny dot thingys to win and go to the next round!

I never made it past the first maze . Even with this video I don’t like my chances

The patterns up until the apple pattern work but when I do the apple pattern and do it exactly right I keep dying. I don’t know what the problem is :/

I'm on the bell level I need the pattern to that

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3:30 5:17. For my own personal reference

It’s weird, my ghosts in my Pac-Man behave more different than yours

For all you Boomers and Generation X’ers that played this game in the early 80’s, remember when you had cocky peers that talked about a beer can, tennis shoe, ice cream cone, or candy bar when you got past the 9th or 12th key?

Only game genius can memorize the pattern. Except me.

Thank you.

This is heard to memorize

I do have a different pattern for levels 1&2 that work well for me, and my average, after about a month of play, is around 20K. My high is 25K+. Now, with your help, I am going to crash that sombitch!