ManiN
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I've been wanting a Ms. Pac cocktail since before I even got into this hobby. Fact is, that is the game that got me started. I saw a hacked cocktail cab with pacman in it on craigslist for $300 and started investigating even more. I eventually found that in my area (Portland, OR), they are hard to come by and if you do find one, the best you'll do is $600 for a well used and beat one. With that I just kept looking. And looking and looking. Eventually a friend on a local arcade group (PAC), had some cabs he was giving away to the group. He knew I wanted a Ms. Pac and asked if I was interested in using an empty Gorf cab as a project to build one. I took his offer and started collecting parts. As of now I have a working Ms. Pac cocktail in amazing condition for ~$200. All of the parts are original Ms. Pac except for the generic Midway cocktail cab box. Good enough for me for sure. One in the same condition around here goes for $900 plus. Multi it, and now your higher.
Basically I gutted what was left in the Gorf cab, repainted it, modded the CPs to receive the Ms. Pac layout. Put together a monitor made of a TV tube and a Wei-ya board, then just reassembled and cleaned and repainted things up as I went.
Over all I'm really happy with it. It's simply beautiful!
Here are the 'Before' pics:
Basically I gutted what was left in the Gorf cab, repainted it, modded the CPs to receive the Ms. Pac layout. Put together a monitor made of a TV tube and a Wei-ya board, then just reassembled and cleaned and repainted things up as I went.
Over all I'm really happy with it. It's simply beautiful!
Here are the 'Before' pics:
