Is anyone familiar with Crazy Mazey?

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Picked up a marquee for this last week. There is very little info about the game on the web (aside from one Rotheblog article that mentions it), and nothing really in VAPS besides the placeholder page.

Is anyone familiar with it?
 
Picked up a marquee for this last week. There is very little info about the game on the web (aside from one Rotheblog article that mentions it), and nothing really in VAPS besides the placeholder page.

Then show us the marquee!
 
It's in VAPS, but that's about it. (Sorry I don't have a pic of mine at the moment, but it's the same as the VAPS pic.)


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Here are some close up pics of my marquee.
 

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If either of you are interested in selling the marquee, LMK

Chris
 
If either of you are interested in selling the marquee, LMK

Chris


Not until this mystery is solved! (Just curious, why are you interested in it. Do you just collect marquees?)

Seriously though, this is interesting. Is this an extinct game? I almost passed this marquee up, as it was in a basement I was raiding, that belonged to a woman who was liquidating her soon-to-be-ex husband's abandoned stash of arcade games and parts.

I was more interested in other stuff, and saw this in a pile of marquees I was flipping through. But in the end, curiosity got the best of me, when I realized it wasn't some dumb redemption game (as that's what a lot of the other stuff was), and maybe there was more to it, so I grabbed it thinking I would research it more later.

I wonder if it was some sort of Pac conversion kit. Just judging by the other games related to this company, and the other companies related to Glak. And the marquee is 23x9", which fits perfectly in my Ms Pac cab.

Here are a few more articles I dug up on Glak:

"The Tangled History of Omni/Glak/Eagle/Magic Electronics (Part 1)":
http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-tangled-history-of.html

"The Tangled History of Omni/Glak/Eagle/Magic Electronics (Part 2)":
http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-tangled-history-of.html

"Is this mysterious mark the Glak Associates logo?":
http://www.rotheblog.com/2013/08/arcade-history/is-this-glak-associates-magic-electronics-logo/

Weird stuff...
 
Seriously though, this is interesting. Is this an extinct game?

Not necessarily extinct, but currently undumped (to the best of my knowledge).

I was more interested in other stuff, and saw this in a pile of marquees I was flipping through. But in the end, curiosity got the best of me, when I realized it wasn't some dumb redemption game (as that's what a lot of the other stuff was), and maybe there was more to it, so I grabbed it thinking I would research it more later.

You're only a couple of hours from where Glak / Magic / EPOS / Eagle was based in Rhode Island, so it makes sense that the marquee would be turning up in your neck of the woods. There may be a PCB in those parts; if the lady selling the stuff will let you go back for a second look, you may want to do that.
 
Damn... that brings things back to me bigtime. Flash back to about 1988 or so. I am about 16 years old. The next door neighbors are having family issues and the husband is now living in an apartment a few miles away.

He still has crap at the house though including his prize possession... a Harley Davidson.

One Sunday I notice that someone is loading the bike up in to the back of his truck. He has it pretty much loaded up with it tied down when the husband shows up, blocks the guys truck in the driveway and jumps out ready to pound heads.

I sit in my window watching it all unfold.

Alan (the husband) is screaming at this new guy, who, in turn, is backing away yelling something about "an ad in the paper"... by this time wifey Elaine comes running out screaming at Alan about how she warned him to get his shit out of "her" house...

Luckily (for the buyer), cooler heads prevailed and Alan didn't pound the shit out of the guy. After talking for a few minutes the buyer started un-strapping the bike to remove it. Elaine is screaming to keep the bike and that he can't have his money back. Alan is screaming at Elaine to give the guy his money back or the cops will be called.

Yadda yadda yadda and 10 minutes later the bike is on the ground... Alan and the buyer are yelling through the door to give the buyer his money back and who rolls up? Yup, the police.

About 5 minutes later buyer has his dough back... Alan is moving his truck out of the way. Buyer is leaving. Alan pulls his truck up to in front of my place then goes and rides off on his bike (coming back for the truck a few hours later).

Oh... the drama. I thought it was going to get UUUUUGLY.
 
Based on Glak's other work I would be looking for a Pac Man PCB with a kit added...


Well, the funny thing is, there was a pile of Pac boards.

(And a Pac cab, which had been converted to Arkanoid (the board was still in it), but had a Pac Plus marquee, and looked like it was being converted again.)

There were 3 or 4 boards, which I grabbed. A couple of them were missing all of the ROMs, but I think the other two had kits. I just assumed they were Ms. Pac's, but now I really need to go check. They're still in my car, but I'll have to go dig them out this weekend.

The whole situation was one of those odd ones. There was definitely bad blood between the woman and her husband. I was probing for info, and she said she had a restraining order against him, etc. He had a bunch of jukes, payphones, megatouches, and some other touchscreen point-of-sale equipment, and it looked like he had been trying to start some kind of vending/coin-op biz, for stuff you would put in bars. (I got a bunch of Golden Tee and Megatouch stuff as well, including CD's, and what appear to be software license fobs.)

She did say several times that he didn't want the point of sale stuff sold, so that was off limits (she kept calling them 'touch and buys', if that means anything to anyone). I initially thought she was selling his stuff out from under him, but from things she said, I got the impression that he didn't care about most of it. Although that could have been a pile of bullshit, and she just wanted to keep some of the stuff for some reason. (There was also a pretty nice NBA Fastbreak, which was not for sale.)

There were also small boxes with what looked like sets of ROMs from kits. I was just filling boxes and grabbing what I could, and I haven't gone through most of it yet, so there might be more to this story.

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Supposedly it's an arcade conversion of an Apple II game:



Looks similar to Targ or Spectar.
 
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