The player navigates Pac - Man through a maze containing various dots, known as Pac - Dots, and four multi-colored ghosts: Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde. The goal of the game is to accumulate points by eating all the Pac - Dots in the maze, completing that ' stage ' of the game and starting the next stage and maze of Pac - dots. Between some stages, one of three intermission animations plays. The four ghosts roam the maze, trying to kill Pac - Man. If any of the ghosts hit Pac - Man, he loses a life; when all lives have been lost, the game is over. Pac - Man is awarded a single bonus life at 10,000 points by default -- DIP switches inside the machine can change the required points to 15,000 or 20,000, or disable the bonus life altogether. The number of lives can be set to 1 life only or up to five lives maximum. High score can not exceed 999,990 points; players may exceed that score, but the game keeps the last 6 digits. There are 256 levels in total, however, when the game was made, the memory ran out at 256, so it is only half loaded while the other half is a jumble of letters and digits.
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