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What is the maximum possible score in the original Pac-Man arcade game?

3.33 million
points
3,333,360 exactly, give or take
A perfect Pac-Man game scores exactly 3,333,360 points — every dot, ghost, and fruit across all 255 levels, first achieved by Billy Mitchell in 1999 after six hours at the joystick.SOURCETwin Galaxies / Namco
Scale check: 3.33 million is roughly everyone in Birmingham.
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