Win at Pac-Man Book

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So while perusing the thrift store tonight, randomly strewn amongst some way out of date computer reference books was this book called "Win at Pac-Man" by Ernest Zavisca andGary Beltowski. It's a hardcover book, and Google provides limited information on it. From what it appears, there was originally two books called "Win at Pac-Man", this one, and a cheap soft cover book, and as a result, this book that I have here was republished as "Break a Million at Pac-Man". The whole book can be found here:

http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/BreakAMillionAtPacman.pdf

Anyway, anyone know if this book has any value? It's actually a pretty interesting read, and does contain some useful advice on the game. I just find it amusing that the cover claims that Ernest Zavisca has a PH.D., yet here he is writing goofy books on Pac-Man strategy.
 
So while perusing the thrift store tonight, randomly strewn amongst some way out of date computer reference books was this book called "Win at Pac-Man" by Ernest Zavisca andGary Beltowski. It's a hardcover book, and Google provides limited information on it. From what it appears, there was originally two books called "Win at Pac-Man", this one, and a cheap soft cover book, and as a result, this book that I have here was republished as "Break a Million at Pac-Man". The whole book can be found here:

http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/BreakAMillionAtPacman.pdf

Anyway, anyone know if this book has any value? It's actually a pretty interesting read, and does contain some useful advice on the game. I just find it amusing that the cover claims that Ernest Zavisca has a PH.D., yet here he is writing goofy books on Pac-Man strategy.

Ill be honest, I hated pacman..thought it was the most boring game but it was my first out of the pacmans so i learned to love it. In one night just from patterns alone i increased my score from 20k to about 130k consistantly. I have since forgotten the patterns but once i get my machine put back together im going to tackle 1/4 million
 
Wish I could remember which book I had when Pac-Man came out. I didn't check the link, but last time I looked at his site, the one he had there wasn't the same as my patterns. Unfortunately, I left the book at a truck stop while learning to play, and never learned a pattern for the 9th key, so that's as far as I could get. In 2009, I practiced a bunch in MAME and came up with my own 9th key pattern, and ended up getting 1.8 million :)
 
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