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Well, this maybe not too exiting for you US guys, but getting an original Ms. Pac Man over here in Europe is close to impossible.
So I was very lucky to get one from a lot that got imported recently from the US:
OK, I had to sell my Missile Command cabaret, Meteor (and gave Dominos as a bonus), but I was already planning on "getting rid" of the last two. The MC was a bit tougher decision, but it was a matter of what machine do you _REALLY_ want, and the question was very quickly answered.
Those three machines will be moving to a very good new home, the arcade museum in Denmark http://www.playright.info/museum.php
Anyway, it gave me the space and the funds to buy the Ms. so I'm happy with it !!
I could still choose between 3 Ms.Pac (and I think 2 or 3 Pac) cabs, and the seller told me that 2 were completely dead (probably something easy like a fuse or a internal switch
) and that one showed "stripes" on the screen (which I figured would be a simply sync pot adjustment. When he powered up that machine, it simply worked ! I was probably as amazed as the seller, and I was very glad we struck a deal on the price _before_ I went over to pick it up 
Although it has the awful speed-hack with strange mazes, that's easy enough to reverse, a working PCB is a great bonus.
Anyway here are some pics:
So I was very lucky to get one from a lot that got imported recently from the US:
OK, I had to sell my Missile Command cabaret, Meteor (and gave Dominos as a bonus), but I was already planning on "getting rid" of the last two. The MC was a bit tougher decision, but it was a matter of what machine do you _REALLY_ want, and the question was very quickly answered.
Those three machines will be moving to a very good new home, the arcade museum in Denmark http://www.playright.info/museum.php
Anyway, it gave me the space and the funds to buy the Ms. so I'm happy with it !!
I could still choose between 3 Ms.Pac (and I think 2 or 3 Pac) cabs, and the seller told me that 2 were completely dead (probably something easy like a fuse or a internal switch
Although it has the awful speed-hack with strange mazes, that's easy enough to reverse, a working PCB is a great bonus.
Anyway here are some pics:
