Pac-Man CE, XBLA Leaderboards, & Polite Asian Gamers

So, I’ve been playing some more of the absolutely marvellous Pac-Man Championship Edition, which is possibly my favorite classic arcade remake ever, thanks to some really well thought-out extra maps and modes and cleverly enhanced art.
Anyhow, I ventured onto the leaderboard to find out that a gamer named ‘Cosin45′ had scored 619,790 in the ‘main’ mode that the Pac-Man World Champion was decided on, way above the 420,000-ish for the other contenders. Odd - so I checked out the guy’s profile, and his description, it turns out, is ‘UnintendedCEScorByBug’. Aww.
So it turns out that Japanese X360-owning Cosin45 must have accidentally triggered a bug that whacked his score up really high (though he’s obviously a good player too - he’s got 200/200 Achievement points for the title). Looking around, there’s a thread on the Twin Galaxies forums discussing this exact piece of cuteness - and poster PERodgers2003 also spotted: […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (simonc) and software by Elliott Back