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Microsoft, Namco Bandai and Quiznos have teamed together to bring us the first Pac-Man World Championship in history.

The winner will be crowned world champion by game creator Toru Iwatani, receive 26 years of free Quizinos toasted sandwiches, 100,000 Microsoft Points and a specially designed Pac-Man Xbox 360. A rather boisterous bounty.

The contest will be based on the Live Arcade version of the game and take place between 25th April and 9th May. Those with the highest scores from around the world will then be selected to go to the finals in New York on 5th June.

Two lucky devils will be selected from both Europe and America, joined by one each from Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Japan and Mexico.

An extra wildcard space will be offered to the winner of the Pac-Man FANatic competition, which lets American and Canadian gamers submit a video to show why they are the most devoted fan on the planet.

"The success of Pac-Man stems from its fun gameplay and host of characters that have been enjoyed by families for generations," said Toru Iwatani, creator of Pac-Man. "It will be exciting to see Pac-Man fans from around the world compete on Xbox Live Arcade to become the first-ever Pac-Man World Champion."

Pac-Man is a world renowned arcade game from the 1980s, which took up residency in all the best chip shops and pizza palaces around the world. And the others. You play as a head with a big mouth who has to gobble up dots while avoiding being caught by roaming ghosts.

The game is available now on Xbox Live Arcade for 400 points, but you should be aware that all leaderboard scores will be wiped clean when the contest begins.

Head over to the Live tournament site for a full list of rules and regulations.

Meanwhile you can gobble-up our review of Pac-Man Live Arcade elsewhere in our Eurogamer maze.

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_grumpy #1 5 years ago

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Hm. Pac-man was only ever proper fun if you was playing it down the boozer.
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asphaltcowboy #2 5 years ago

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26 years of free toasted sandwiches? The winner is gonna be some fat motherf*cker...
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Scoops #3 5 years ago

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World Champion? What about those who have the highest scores already on the coin-op. Shouldn't those scores be put forward automatically?
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Ranger101 #4 5 years ago

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It's an x360 promo.
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jonsaan #5 5 years ago

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Oh man, I struggle past 22,000. I'd better get practicing.
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Grunk #6 5 years ago

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I'm sure I read somewhere that the world record for playing pacman (length of time) was well over 24 hours, this could be a tricky compo to win.

Strange that part of the prize is a 360 when you need a 360 to enter.
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The_Programmer #7 5 years ago

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"Strange that part of the prize is a 360 when you need a 360 to enter."

Not really. You'll need it to replace the one that you've already got after it breaks down.
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Scientist #8 5 years ago

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Billy Mitchell FTW!
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Royal Fool #9 5 years ago

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This is silly, there already is a world champion, and what's more is that he can't ever be beaten because he got a perfect score on the game: 3,333,360.

http://ww w.mameworld.net/pacman/mitchell...
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jonsaan #10 5 years ago

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'I thought there was a magic route you could around the maze take that guarranteed success because of the rigid rules that govern the ghost movement? '

Well I believe there are routes you can memorise, but it's a lot more than one as the Ghosts behaviour changes as the levels go up. I think I read that the world champ didn't use patterns though. Just did it on feeeeeel, like Bruce Lee.

Edited by 1 at 18/04/07 @ 12:58
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bonker #11 5 years ago

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"100,000 Microsoft Points"

Just enough to afford the GH2 song packs then ...
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bonker #12 5 years ago

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TBH, MS should be doing this sort of thing with ALL the XBLA games. It's just the sort of thing they need to put some spark back into it ...

Apart from the toasted sandwiches thing that is - WTF???
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bonker #13 5 years ago

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"Not really. You'll need it to replace the one that you've already got after it breaks down. "

Yes, less of a competition for a high score and more one of whose 360 will last the longest lol
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bloodflowers #14 5 years ago

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Prize should be a 360 controller with a decent d-pad.
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Totoriko #15 5 years ago

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I haven't seen any Quiznos in UK so far.
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Redeye #16 5 years ago

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Once got to the ninth key level as a kid - don't reckon I could get anywhere near that now without my brain leaking out of my ears!
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kangarootoo #17 5 years ago

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I looped the score on the Atari 2600 version of Asteroids once when I was a kid, sat there on a Saturday morning just churning away.
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paulf #18 5 years ago

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theres a Quiznos in the Plaza Oxford Street Londonium, no pac man machine there though
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Peew971 #19 5 years ago

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How about offering the game for free for a couple of days?
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smelly #20 5 years ago

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"This is silly, there already is a world champion, and what's more is that he can't ever be beaten because he got a perfect score on the game: 3,333,360. "

It says after level 256, the game split screens.. what do they mean?

Do they mean it crashes? or something?
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