I've noticed that few people seem to talk about game modes other than Championship Mode.  I find that odd since I find Championship Mode to be the least interesting of the modes so to rectify this oversight, I thought I'd start a thread designed to discuss the other modes and strategies.

Championship Mode 1 (Patience & Reward) - A board with lots of power pellets followed by 3 boards of none. Since the left & right side aren't symettrical in this mode, I've found the key to getting the best scores is to get 4 boards ahead on the left side and then progress both sides evenly.  This way, the boards with the most power pellets will coincide with each other.

Challenge Mode 2 (The Darkness Course) - The course where you can only see immediately around Pac-Man, the ghosts, and the pellets.  This course has the slowest pace of all of the courses which gives it a more strategic feel to me.  I believe the key to this course is chaining strings of power pellets together: clear the board of regular pellets, leaving just the power pellets and then start a big ghost eating chain.  Also note that later on, the power pellet distribution becomes uneven so you'll want to take that into account.

Extra Mode 1 (The Freeway Course) - The superfast course.  I have a high score on this course, but to be honest, I don't remember the specifics of how I got it.  I would imagine that due to the speed of the course, staying alive and taking advantage of 50 point pellets would be key.

Extra Mode 2 (The Manhattan Course) - This is a long and fast paced course that is rather similar to Extra Mode 3.  One trick I've noticed is that the last board before the boards start to repeat has a ton of power pellets.  If you can clear that board of regular pellets and then chain all the power pellets into the next few boards, you'll get a ton of points.

Extra Mode 3 (The Overall Course) - There aren't really any great ghost eating spots on this course aside from the beginning, but on the other hand, you can get through the boards rather quickly meaning tons of fruit points.  This is my best mode (I'm ranked #3 at the moment).  I think this is the mode that is most likely to be the first mode where someone manages to break 1 million points.

I think Extra Mode 3 is my favorite.  I am trying to crack 700K.  I agree that 1M is most plausible on this mode.

I made 950k on Extra Mode 3 today.  It wasn't a flawless run by any stretch (I think I died around half a dozen times or so when all is said and done) so I'm thinking that 1 million is very possible.

I barely play any other modes, but I started on Extra Mode 3 the other night for giggles and had a hard time breaking 700K; 950K sounds like quite an accomplishment!

It's kind of weird for me to not know ahead of time what level is coming next, but if I can ever get over the 500K hurdle on Championship Mode, I may devote more time to Extra Mode 3.

The way I managed to break 900k was thus:  I leveled up both sides equally until I got to the second loop on the board with the moats (long stretches on the sides where you can't escape and small areas in the middle).  At that point, I started to focus on a single side.  By doing this I was able to start a third loop on one side which resulted in a ton of points since the loops start out with boards that you can clear very quickly.

 RainbowDespair wrote:

The way I managed to break 900k was thus:  I leveled up both sides equally until I got to the second loop on the board with the moats (long stretches on the sides where you can't escape and small areas in the middle).  At that point, I started to focus on a single side.  By doing this I was able to start a third loop on one side which resulted in a ton of points since the loops start out with boards that you can clear very quickly.

That's a"maze"ing!  I guess at 7650 a piece its better to ignore the ghosts, then?

May have to play with that mode some more...

MY FAVOURITE IS LEVEL 5 AND I HAVE MANAGED 261 000

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I'm actually taking a shine now to the Manhattan course.  That one is not as frustrating as the Overall course.

I recently broke my high score and passed 600K.  In the top 500 (I think) but at least the top of my friends list ;-)

Had a nice run on Freeway tonight....just breaking 300K!  I think I took my biggest leaderboard jump ever....going from #308 to #100!

 pacmantab wrote:

I'm actually taking a shine now to the Manhattan course.  That one is not as frustrating as the Overall course.

I recently broke my high score and passed 600K.  In the top 500 (I think) but at least the top of my friends list ;-)

my wife loves extra mode 2.  She is now ranked  11 in it.  Here goal is to be #1  but I really dont see that happen #1 is way up there.

I would've liked to play normal pacman mode with C.E. spiced up graphics but no.. all we get is the time limit games.. bah

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I finally broke 700K on Extra Mode 3 (Overall)!!!!  I was going to try and record the replay and put it on youtube, but my little girl started a new game while I got the camera ;-*  oh well!