Is my Ms. Pac-Man CPO NOS or Repro???

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Got this in a box of extra parts when I bought a Ms. Pac-Man mini on Saturday. I would like to know if it's repro or NOS before I sell it. The guy said he got all his stuff from an op he worked for (Key Distributing Company...the keys to the game are on one of their keychains). He used to move games for the op. He said he's had this stuff put away for well over a decade.

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NOS. You can spot some of the differences between it and the really ugly repros as well as the Phoenix arcade and Two Bit ones.
 
I would say NOS as well. Looking at the artwork of the Ms Pacman figures, her shoes, her bow, and the thickness of the lines are dead-on. It actually LOOKS like Ms Pacman rather than Pacman in drag like all the repros...
 
NOS. You can spot some of the differences between it and the really ugly repros as well as the Phoenix arcade and Two Bit ones.

Yup. PA and TB have orange for red and have the same character for the 1P Ms. Pac as one for the 2P (not to mention TB has the Namco ©).
 
Looks legit to me. I have a nos one in my stash waiting to go on my machine one day. It has a poor repro on it now that I dont like. Alot of the repro ones hardly have any texture at all.
You can tell yours is old because it appears that the backing paper has shrunk some. Everything looks right on it, nice score.

Lets wait and see what Rich says. His judgement should be accurate.
 
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Is it a cabaret CPO?

I've got an NOS Ms Pac cabaret CPO and bezel. I looked everywhere for them, but now that I have them I am afraid to actually use them! :) I need to scan and vectorize them sometime soon.
 
Before applied, should this be a template to reproduce these properly?

I have one just like it NOS and its been recreated already and is in the que for printing.

Please note that there are 7-8 different versions. i know this because I seen the films in person. Heck look at Scott Evans vast library of Atari films. There are multiple versions for tons of games.
 
I'll tell you the same thing I told you in a PM - I'd say the minimum price on this overlay is $50. But I know if you put it out there in the collector community, it would generate a LOT of interest, and could possibly sell for up to 4 times that much if the right buyers got in a pissing match.
 
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