authorized enhancement kit sticker on bezel - common?

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authorized enhancement kit sticker on bezel - common?

Hi everyone,

I recently purchased a cabinet that appears to have been converted from a Pac Man to Jr. Pac Man, based on the board inside, and there's an "authorized enhancement kit" sticker on the original Pac Man bezel.

Are these stickers commonly found? I'm not planning to remove it or anything, just found it interesting that it was there after all of these years...
 

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i asked about these last year and it seems like they aren't particularly common. i only had a vague recollection of the stickers from arcades in the late 80's/early 90's (probably when most ops were trying to squeeze a few more $$ of now quite-old Pacs and Ms. Pacs.) since then i've obtained a Pacman bezel that also has the sticker.
 
I think the sticker came with the pac man plus kits
 
Actually, the board says "Jr. Pac Man (Field Kit)" on it, and has Bally/Midway stickers on many of the chips, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was original to this install. I just found it really interesting to see... I didn't notice it until I got home, and couldn't find much of anything online about them.
 
i think those might have come with any official Midway kit (Plus, JR, speed-up?). i remember seeing them on the bezels of Ms. Pacs with speed-up chips at Ivory's Video Game Palace in Seattle in about 1990. they could have been left-over from a previous conversion (Ms. Pac to JR then back to Ms. Pac?) but i rather doubt it.

the only real mention of the kits (not the stickers) that i've been able to find talk about Plus.
 
Here's another one:

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That's pretty cool, I've never seen one. It's a pretty good idea, makes the ops think they might get in legal trouble if they buy bootleg stuff, and also informs the players which machines have the authorized kit (which people would assume might play better).

Later on Nintendo and Sega has similar stuff...
 
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