/vr/ - Retro Games

So I've been rewatching the Pac-Man 2 episode, and I have two questions:

How did he never notice that you can shoot the arms of the Gum Monster (while spending up to ten minutes in single attempts with 17 attempts in all), and how did he actually win without figuring that out?

I really don't know if it's actually possible to win without shooting the arms, since it should always go like this:

>Pac-Man flies in
>eats one ghost
>gets knocked into wall while the second ghost still throws gum on the monster
>recovers
>another ghost comes in to replace the eaten one
>60 GOTO 10

And that should keep the size of the Gum Monster at least stagnant, if not growing. It's a mite confusing.