Been a while since I did an update on the cabaret situation.
We'll start with the latest, Ms. Pac-Man. I've had a project Pac cabaret for a while, but it's waterlogged and I haven't gotten to it — I also don't have the space for the proper tools. So when a fellow SMAC member put this up for sale, I jumped on it. I wasn't the first to ask, but I was the first to commit. One 300 mile round trip to Tacoma, WA later, Ms. Pac was mine.
She's in nice shape with a new overlay and one of the crispest G07s I've ever seen. I had a very clean Pac PCB with Mike Doyle's 96-in-1 kit installed, so I dropped that in, and I'm keeping the other as a spare. She's looking good next to her long-lost sibling, my Galaga cabaret in a factory converted Ms. Pac cabinet.
Next up, a Capcom Mini Cute which I snagged from PAC/KLOVer Dogyuun:
This is my first candy cab, and it's pretty neat. I dropped a spare MVS-1 board with 120-in-1 cart into it, since the CP was already wired for four buttons. I still need to get stereo off the MVS motherboard, but it's working just fine as it is. This is a really awesome little cabinet, and it's been a big hit with both the kids and the adults.
And lastly…
Dig Dug!
As the story goes, this machine was in Atari's engineering labs, and an employee took it with them when they quit, with the intention of converting it to a Centipede. Instead, it languished in a closet for close to three decades, before being sold to a fellow PAC member. It took some convincing, but he eventually agreed to pass it along to me.
So what we have here is a near-mint, never commercially operated Dig Dug cabaret. There are 149 clicks on the coin counter. The G07 doesn't have a lick of burn. The cabinet and T-molding are exquisite. It is unbelievably nice.
The downside is that it did not leave Atari with any artwork. The marquee is an adhesive repro over a bit of plexi. It came with a wrong-sized smoked front glass and no bezel, so I put on a repro bezel and I had some clear plexi cut to go over it. I'm talking to TOG about getting proper screened art printed up, and it came with a new repro CPO which I still need to install.
We'll start with the latest, Ms. Pac-Man. I've had a project Pac cabaret for a while, but it's waterlogged and I haven't gotten to it — I also don't have the space for the proper tools. So when a fellow SMAC member put this up for sale, I jumped on it. I wasn't the first to ask, but I was the first to commit. One 300 mile round trip to Tacoma, WA later, Ms. Pac was mine.
She's in nice shape with a new overlay and one of the crispest G07s I've ever seen. I had a very clean Pac PCB with Mike Doyle's 96-in-1 kit installed, so I dropped that in, and I'm keeping the other as a spare. She's looking good next to her long-lost sibling, my Galaga cabaret in a factory converted Ms. Pac cabinet.
Next up, a Capcom Mini Cute which I snagged from PAC/KLOVer Dogyuun:
This is my first candy cab, and it's pretty neat. I dropped a spare MVS-1 board with 120-in-1 cart into it, since the CP was already wired for four buttons. I still need to get stereo off the MVS motherboard, but it's working just fine as it is. This is a really awesome little cabinet, and it's been a big hit with both the kids and the adults.
And lastly…
Dig Dug!
As the story goes, this machine was in Atari's engineering labs, and an employee took it with them when they quit, with the intention of converting it to a Centipede. Instead, it languished in a closet for close to three decades, before being sold to a fellow PAC member. It took some convincing, but he eventually agreed to pass it along to me.
So what we have here is a near-mint, never commercially operated Dig Dug cabaret. There are 149 clicks on the coin counter. The G07 doesn't have a lick of burn. The cabinet and T-molding are exquisite. It is unbelievably nice.
The downside is that it did not leave Atari with any artwork. The marquee is an adhesive repro over a bit of plexi. It came with a wrong-sized smoked front glass and no bezel, so I put on a repro bezel and I had some clear plexi cut to go over it. I'm talking to TOG about getting proper screened art printed up, and it came with a new repro CPO which I still need to install.


