A Microsoft robot got the highest all-time score in 'Ms. Pac-Man'

A Microsoft-made artificial-intelligence system has achieved a perfect score of 999,990 points on the Atari 2600 version of the classic "Ms. Pac-Man" -- making it very likely the first time anybody, human or robot, has "beaten" the game. That notion is backed up by Highscore.com, Per that site, the highest score ever recorded in this version of "Ms. Pac-Man" was 266,330, by a player in Brazil.