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Aug. 24, 1932 S.F. EXAMINER A1 i L0Vfi IMMul. UF if -a MturUA I LID 4fi Iff II MS. FIV5 i 4uE WHEN IM' CMS! I 60 0ANIN5 -T I Momma wi km Mm Mmm i if if ii (i OU 14 Ton lira irv OF fcxammefLse homero SEVEN COLONS Friends cluster around as Ricky Mori, 14, runs up a score of 3,171,120 In quest of a Pac-Man record Kid's 3,171,1 20 Pac-Man score too much for exhausted machine Z3 L3 regularly 25.00 ,1 1 rf.

it 'I' llvliiljUiii IT: HUH extra one after a score of 10,000) when the machine went into fits. He pointed to the score above the maze, and said, "That's the maximum it'll flip over. If that machine hadn't overloaded, he'd still be going right now." Hughston shrugged and said, "I can't figure out how that other guy got 5 million. The machine's the same, the computer board's the same. I dont think that 5 million is accurate." Ricky, who was 12 when he started his electronic career on Asteroids, said his score would have beaten all comers at a recent Reno competition, where a 000,000 game took first-prize money.

Ricky's mother, Charlene, said she'd been looking forward to her son's clobbering of Pac-Man. "I was planning on spending the night here," she said, sitting beside him In the small arcade. To Ricky, it was merely a nuisance to be denied the record. There'll be other times. One of the half-dozen friends who came by to see him play asked, "Doesn't your heart start beating?" Ricky shrugged and said, "When I mess up my pattern, it does." Then he put on his coat, nudged his mother and said, "I'm hungry.

Let's go celebrate." of the machine, Ricky still "wasn't getting any higher than about 229,000." Ricky said he concentrated on Pac-Man mainly "because I'm good at it I can go real high on it, play five hours for free. I get my quarter's worth." Then one day he walked into Columbus Video and saw a veteran player use a pattern to navigate the maze and his Pac-Man was gobbling up dots and monsters left and right Watching those patterns and reading books on the game finally got Ricky into the one-million range, then two million and now, three million. Ricky said there's no doubt in his mind that with a machine that can take the pressure, he can break the world's record. "If that machine hadnt busted I'd of played all night," said Ricky. "I want to break the world's record, and I want to be on That's too." Ricky took in a couple of Cokes and some ham and grapes while he duked it out with Pac-Man, playing his patterns so precisely that he was able to announce the times he would hit his milestones well in advance, hitting the 6.04 time for three million on the nose.

Lance Hughston, owner of Columbus Video, said Ricky was on his second man of four Pac-Men (you get an By Edvins Beitiks Examiner staff writer San Francisco's Ricky Mori, 14, went head-to-head with Pac-Man for more than four hours yesterday before the machine coughed up its computerized lungs and called it quits. Mori, who started his quest for a Guinness Book of World Records score at 1:53 p.m., had reached 3,171,120 when the machine went into double Images, a split screen and gave up the ghost at 6:22 p.m. And Ricky was still only on his second Pac-Man of the game's four. Although he was still off the world mark, which an official Pac-Man score-keeper in Ottumwa, Iowa, puts at Mori bested his previous record of He'll try again Monday, "as soon as they get another machine." Ricky, who lives right around the corner from the video arcade at 755 Columbus Ave, where he went for the record, said he's been practicing Pac-Man steadily for about a year. "I wouldn't eat lunch, save my lunch money every day, and go play Pac-Man after school." said Ricky, as his mother sat beside him, shaking her head.

After countless afternoons In front" i NdlVSmSkGFS Prepared by Bill Burkhardt In dofenso of poor King Richard KI Fans of King Richard III are now saying that William Shakespeare did a hatchet job on the king to Ingratiate himself with his patron. Queen Elizabeth I. Members of the Richard III Society, a loosely knit but Interesting group, are seeking to clear King Richard's reputation as a depraved, child-murdering monster. Last weekend marked the 437th anniversary of Richard's death in the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last major conflict In the War of the Roses between the royal houses of Lancaster and York. By next year's 500th anniversary of Richard's coronation in 1433, the society hopes to have Parliament restore dignity to his name.

They also want to install a plaque in Westminster Abbey, where almost all of England's mon-archs, except for Richard, have been laid to rest "His reputation is the creation of a highly organized and ruthlessly executed Tudor propaganda campaign," insists William Hogarth, of Sea Cliff, N.Y., who serves as vice chairman of the society's American branch. "Shakespeare seized on the legend of a child-murdering king as rich dramatic material and unwittingly helped perpetuate a myth. His play is not hfctory, it is fiction written under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth granddaughter of Henry VII." Pryor will get $3.1 million The former manager of comedian Richard Pryor has been ordered to repay about $3 million in improper fees and misappropriated income. State Labor Commissioner Patrick Kenning late last week ruled that David McCoy Franklin "willfully appropriated" $1.85 million of Pryor's money while serving as his agent and manager from 1975 to 1980. He ordered Franklin to repay that amount plus 7 percent interest $13 million as well as $753,217 in fees to Pryor and his company, Indigo Inc.

Tha ups end downs of record-setting An American law student ended a lfrday roller-coaster ride in Hassloch, West Germany, last week and claimed a world record for the longest stay on such a ride. Richard Rodriguez, 24, who is a student at Columbia University, completed 384 hours on the roller coaster at the Hassbloch Holiday Park, 16 hours longer than the record set by UJS. disc jockey Jim King in Panama City, two years ago. Rodriguez spent only 32 hours off the roller coaster on the ride or about 5 minutes every hour during which he was under observation by doctors. Now he's going to tour Europe for a little vacation before going home to his studies.

CENTRAL AMERICA THE Stevenson resigns men-only club: 3 4 Adlai Stevenson III has now resigned his memberships in three men-only clubs because, he says, they were diverting attention from important issues in his campaign for governor of Illinois. Earlier Stevenson had said that he belonged to the Cliff Dwellers Club because its facilities "are very convenient and it's hard for me to find a place to have lunch in downtown Chicago." That was a boo-boo, Adlai. The best-kept secret in C. White House economic adviser Murray Weidenbaum, who knows how hard it is to keep something sensitive from the news media, says he believes he's finally found someone who can keep a secret Weidenbaum, whose resignation as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers became effective last week, said his landlord is "someone who doesnt leak." "More than 90 days before I turned in my resignation, I gave notice to my landlord that I was leaving," Weidenbaum said. This means the landlord knew in May what President Reagan learned in July.

The landlord, incidentally, is Abraham Katz, the US. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. That's probably why he kept the whole thing quiet. at te A. IjThO 24 In AD.

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