I was gifted an original Pac-Man cabinet of unknown provenance and unknown condition by a family acquaintance who just wanted it out of the way.
I picked it up about a month ago. Fair warning: As of Feb 5th, I've done everything I've planned to do to it (for now), so these posts are mostly historical. I'll post more here as I have time.
It was very dirty but appeared to be complete, with some oddities.
The control panel overlay was non-standard. I saw it advertised as "Pac-Man or Ms. Pac-Man" on eBay, otherwise, I've seen nothing else about this CPO.
The sides were covered in brown goop; I assume it was glue to hold different artwork.
Overall, it seems like the cabinet was converted to something else (maybe Ms. Pac-Man?), then converted back.
After blowing out the dust and giving it a quick once-over for anything obvious that might catch fire, I plugged it in and it started up!
I picked it up about a month ago. Fair warning: As of Feb 5th, I've done everything I've planned to do to it (for now), so these posts are mostly historical. I'll post more here as I have time.
It was very dirty but appeared to be complete, with some oddities.
The control panel overlay was non-standard. I saw it advertised as "Pac-Man or Ms. Pac-Man" on eBay, otherwise, I've seen nothing else about this CPO.
The sides were covered in brown goop; I assume it was glue to hold different artwork.
Overall, it seems like the cabinet was converted to something else (maybe Ms. Pac-Man?), then converted back.
After blowing out the dust and giving it a quick once-over for anything obvious that might catch fire, I plugged it in and it started up!



