Man, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Three days in a row, three resolutions achieved. I’m like a resolution machine (watch me get down, watch me get down …)
It’s been too cold to do any real gaming out in the arcade this week so instead I’ve been working on a couple of my “garage” projects, one of which is my Ms. Pac-Man cabinet. I paid $80 for this cabinet at an estate sale and let me tell you, other than my fully-working Q*Bert that I got for $100 at a garage sale (thanks again for the tip, Tim-Dog), this Ms. Pac-Man cabinet may go down in history as my luckiest arcade find yet. Although the cabinet wasn’t “quite” working due to some graphical problems, the game powered up and displayed “something”, which is 95% of the battle.
Between some of my online friends and some research I did on the net we figured out that my Ms. Pac-Man had some bad RAM. I tried to fix it myself and CRACK POW OKAY WOW WELL THAT WENT BAD REAL QUICK. At that point it was determined that I needed a replacement board, at least for parts. For another $80 I ended up getting a refurbished board off of eBay. When I got home from work today the board was waiting for me on the front porch. After the kids went to bed I snuck out to the garage and installed the new board. Success!
By the way, this is how a redneck tests a board …
Tomorrow if I get some time I’ll remove the old (non-working) board and set it aside for repairs … that is, if I can quit playing Ms. Pac-Man long enough to get anything done! Right now the game needs some new t-molding (the black plastic that runs around the edges; you can see in the first picture that much of it is missing) and some touch up paint, but other than that, this thing is ready to move out of the garage and into the arcade!
Pac-Man was a great game … and a great Saturday Morning Cartoon! P-P-P-P-P-Pac-Power!
It is really weird seeing Clyde as the sort-of leader of that group, considering that in the game Pac-Man, if he were any less part of the action, he wouldn’t be written to the framebuffer.
I loved the Pac-Man cartoon when I was a kid.
And very nice find for the cab! :)
Oh my, don’t let Chomp Chomp (Pac-Man’s dog) hear your harsh words!
I have the entire Pac-Man series on DVD (a friend of mine bought them, bootlegs) and I have to say you’re probably right. With a nostalgic twinkle I still enjoy them but they are not deep by any stretch of the imagination.
I’d hate to hear what you thought about the rest of the Supercade lineup: Donkey Kong, Frogger, Q-Bert, Pitfall, and so on.
I had no idea there was a Frogger cartoon. I’m gonna find it on Youtube. I have no idea how they’d do the concept – see, Pitfall! (which I have also not seen) I can visualize. You have Pitfall Harry and his precious metal fence… and each week they frustrate the plans of the Scorpion and a bucket of tar. But Frogger?? There’s no story there – he’s just commuting!
Try some pink t-molding. Seriously I put it on mine all the time it makes the cabinet look 100 times better than the black. it matches the marquee and other pink parts…
Just for th record you guys know that the game Pacland was based on the cartoon series of the game pacman.
I wonder if they ever decided to contnue making a cartoon based on the arcade game of the cartoon that was based on the arcade game? ?
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