Donna's Ms. Pac-Man Score Log, 1982 to Now

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THE SCORE LOG
every time I beat my own best, 1982 to now
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I've kept this in the back of my appointment book every year since 1982. Not every game, just the nights I beat my own best. Since 1983 they're all signed off on Ed's board too, so nobody can say I made them up. Before that you'll have to take my word for it, and the word of a cook named Dale who doesn't work there anymore.

WHEN	SCORE	WHAT HAPPENED
Apr. 1982	4,110	My first quarter, on my break, in my apron.
July 1982	21,350	First time I saw the light blue maze.
Nov. 1982	38,920	First time I saw all three acts. Dale the cook watched the stork with me.
June 1983	52,880	The first line ever written on Ed's board.
Aug. 1984	61,040	Last week of waitressing. Started beauty school in September.
May 1985	74,300	The night I got my cosmetology license. Celebrated.
Apr. 1986	79,920	First week in her new spot by the restrooms.
Feb. 1987	88,760	The board was all DLK by now, so Ed made the one-line-per-person rule.
Oct. 1988	92,110	The night before my wedding. My mother was not pleased. I was.
Sept. 1989	95,500	Seven months pregnant. Had to stand sideways.
Feb. 1990	101,230	Over 100,000 for the first time. My son was two months old and asleep in his car seat in the booth. Ed watched him.
1991	—	Nothing. A toddler, and the cracked joystick.
Mar. 1992	112,650	Finally used to the new knob.
July 1993	118,470	Good thing, too. See Big Swede, November.
Aug. 1994	121,080	She's in the back corner now. No glare. Immediately better.
Oct. 1995	127,310	Divorce was final in September. I played a lot that fall. I don't need to say more than that.
Tue., Apr. 16, 1996	131,470	NOT ME. LKY. The day somebody beat me. Read about it on the truckers page.
Thu., May 2, 1996	133,900	Got it back. Sixteen days. I played every single one of them.
Oct. 1997	138,240	Ed had the monitor rebuilt in the summer. I could see Inky coming for the first time in years.
Thu., Aug. 20, 1998	141,390	MY BEST EVER. Well, 12:40 Friday morning, technically. The banana. My hands shook for an hour.
June 1999	139,770	Not a new best, but the closest I've come since, so it goes in the book. 1,620 short. I counted.

Goal for 1999: 150,000 before New Year's. If the machine and the world are both still running on January 1st, which Ed says they'd better be, because he's not paying to have her Y2K'd, I'll try again in 2000.

(She doesn't have a clock in her, Ed. She'll be fine.)

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Last updated September 12, 1999