Perfect Pac-Man Patterns - Board 9 of 256 - 1st Galaxian

This is a high resolution version of my old video found here • Perfect Pac-Man 1st Ga...
Pattern created by: Rick Fothergill, Adam "Lucid Faia" Sweeney, and Neil Chapman.
This pattern works on, at least, the original Pac-Man arcade machine, the MAME emulator, and I'm told, the XBox 360 version.
I know this pattern is a long one, but the ghosts only stay blue for one second, so the groups need to be pretty tight when going for the energizers. In addition, the timing must be that reversals happen just before eating the bottom energizers so the blue ghosts reverse back into you.
1st Galaxian pattern additional instructions. In case it's not clear what is happening at these key times.
0:57 - press RIGHT as soon as you see the 200
1:52 - press RIGHT until you see the 1600, then press UP

[@williamwalkup988]

Definitely know your pattern well. I remember this one from years ago. I always liked going back up to finish the coupled dots.

[@PacStrats]

Indeed. It's nice how the remaining dots at the end fall in line.

[@sandal_thong8631]

This looks less like a pattern you can memorize than just going 'round and 'round until you get the ghosts to follow you to the energizer.

[@brunobr95]

5 lives?

[@PacStrats]

Competitive Pac-Man is played with 5 lives to start + 1 extra at 10k. This setting was established to avoid a scenario where a player achieves a perfect game with 3+1 lives (3,333,180) while another achieves the same with 5+1 lives (3,333,360). Although both scenarios are equally difficult, using the 5+1 setting became the preferred setting among the community.
If everyone who achieved a perfect game did so with the 3+1 setting, and someone later played with the 5+1 setting and scored an additional 180 points, would this be considered a greater accomplishment? No, but it would create confusion.
The 3 lives versus 5 makes a big difference if you are not going for a perfect score, yes. But I've set my game to 5 lives since it's the accepted default setting. I'm not doing it to look for some advantage. :)