Response to Hisa Chan, this is for you.

Hello Marpers & TJT,

I have read most of the posts here for a bit over a year but this is my first post.

Thank you to everyone for all the interesting conversation about video games.

I felt compelled to respond to TJT’s remarks about Klax and records mostly because the statement that “Any videogame record can be beaten, if you use enough time!” is one of the most blatantly false and misleading statements I have read on this forum. Perhaps because fake records have been a concern of mine for 20 years or so I am taking it too literally.

Maybe you meant that MOST records can be bettered, which is of course true. I would consider this difference to be nitpicking except for what appears to be your assumption that any, arbitrarily high, score might be achievable, in this case 14.5 million. It is, as a matter of FACT, not possible to achieve a score of 14.5 million on Pacman. It is impossible to achieve a score of 14.5 million on Dig Dug. It is also not possible to achieve a 14.5 million score on an unhacked, difficulty ramped Klax machine running the Klax (set 1) rom. The great thing about having access to the roms thanks to Mame, is that sometimes, especially with the older and simpler games, maximum scores can be definitively determined.

By the way there is a 1 million point bonus for completing the last level.

John S.

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