SaminVA
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About 6 weeks ago I had lunch in a local Italian restaurant with a few of my friends. We meet up their every other week and I noticed next door to the restaurant inside the auto parts store which had gone out of business was a Pac-Man upright with the monitor setting on the floor in front of it. My buddy Wade who knows the owner said it was for sale and I should make an offer. I told him if I had the room I would but I would have to pass. Each week I would look in the window to see if it was still their. This past Thursday Wade calls me and said he just talked to the owner and he had to get rid of the game. He wanted $400.00 for it but my buddy told him that you could find one working for $200-300.00 and non working you would be lucky to get $150.00 for it. My buddy said make him an offer, all he could say is no so I said I would give him $100.00 cash but my truck was broke and I didn't have a way to pick it up. The guy said give me $110.00 and I'll bring it to your house. I said sold and he gave them my phone number and address. Now I was thinking where am I gonna put another game. He was suppose to call me to let me know when he was on his way. I waited all day and no phone call. All day Friday the same thing, no phone call. I figured he changed his mind about selling it so cheap. So today about 12:30 the door bell rings. I open the door and see a pickup truck in my driveway with the Pac-man game in the back. So we unload it, I give him $110.00 and I now have a no-working but complete Pac-man. Turns out the guy who sold it owes the strip mall and the restaurant. One of the guys that delivered it said he remembered playing the game in the Restaurant when he was a little boy.As always they had no keys, they had forced the back door off so I already put a new cam lock on. I looked inside and looks like I have a extra main board laying in the bottom. I plugged the game in and turned it on, figured it might play blind but it's dead as a door nail. I didn't have time to check fuses or voltages yet, maybe tomorrow. The game is well used but looks good for it's age. I figure for $110.00 I could not pass it up. You never know, maybe theirs cash in the coin box. No key so I guess I'll have to drill.


