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Microsoft Uses AI to beat Atari 2600 Ms. Pac-Man


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Looks like Microsoft has better player AI than the last company that tried this with Atari games.

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An article on Wired completely screwed up the facts:

 

https://www.wired.com/story/mircosoft-ai-ms-pac-man/

 

The VCS version wasn't released until February 1983, nearly a full year after the arcade version was released (March 1982).  

 

I rolled the score on this over 20 years ago, using a trick I discovered:

http://www.ataricompendium.com/game_library/easter_eggs/vcs/26mspacman.html

 

Twin Galaxies shows a high score of over 2 million from Ron Corcoran, but most - if not all - of Corcoran's VCS scores are bogus since he entered all his own scores in Twin Galaxies database while acting as a TG referee, meaning there's no proof (video/photos/witnesses) to back up this or any other score of his.

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