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From stu1087 Mon Mar 1 19:38:27 1993
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id AA06397; Mon, 1 Mar 93 19:38:19 EST
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 19:38:19 EST
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From: stu1087 (General Unix Account)
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Message-Id: <9303020038.AA06397@discover.wright.edu>
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To: jdeitch@gisatl.fidonet.org
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Subject: additions to folklore list
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Cc: stu1087@discover.wright.edu
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Status: R
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There are two games of concern here: Pac-man and Space Invaders Part II.
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Pac-man: I was personally inundated with the rumor of the gold bars in Pac-man.
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Several of my acquaintances had reported seeing them. Here are the facts:
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- depending on whom you talked to, they appeared after 12, 15, or 24 keys.
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- some machines had them, some did not. This explained why people had gone
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really high and not seen the gold
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- even the book "How to Master the Video Games" by Tom Hirschfeld describes
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"... a series of gold and silver bars"
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- the gold bars, worth 10,000 points each, were followed by two screwdrivers,
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worth 25,000 points.
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- a related rumor said that eating the eyes (enroute back to the pen following
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the eating of a blue monster) was worth "a lot of points". This clearly
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never panned out, though.
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- one day I pressed a friend for what the gold bars looked like. She replied
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"They're like .... striped". On a totally separate occasion, a somewhat
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inarticulate maintenance man at King's Island amusement park near
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Cincinnati, told me while in one of the video arcades "yah, afta the
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gode bars, dere's dese pointy-like things. 25,000 points each." in an
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apparent reference to the screwdrivers.
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So as you can see, accepting that these gold bars are but a myth has been
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quite difficult for me to swallow.
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Space Invaders Part II: Made by Taito, lic. to Midway, there is a wonderful
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"Rainbow Explosion" if a player manages to shoot a 10-point invader last.
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This one is said to be true.
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Michael E. Kotler
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stu1087@discover.wright.edu
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