Ms. PACMAN NANI Retrofit Kit

Huh. A quick google found me http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue21/misc/nani.html, which is interesting, and potentially related.

Hah! the cards shown in one of the pictures say 'National Amusement Network', which helps validate that theory, but doesn't get me anything else. A (possibly defunct) multi-location play system is what I'm thinking. The device clearly has a card reader and cards, so I think that's the right area to look, but I can't easily find more about the National Amusement Network right now.
 
Sounds right to me but I haven't seen one of those. Sort of reminds me of the cards and dispensers that some Global VR games had. Need For Speed Underground and PGA Tour III used them for saving game info and tournaments and stuff. Didn't know there was a kit like this for Ms. Pac-Man. I know that somebody (maybe it was Twobits) had a ROM set with daughter board that would let you connect a ticket dispenser to a Pac-Man board and reward tickets for eating ghosts.
 
Oh good, I'm glad someone picked it up. Do a post about it!
Will do! I'll scan the manuals and post em too. The thing I think is weird is that its from 1997. What versions of Ms. Pacman were getting kits at that point? Did Namco rerelease versions of Ms. Pac in the mid 90's? I know there were the reunion editions, and the namco classics museum editions, but where there dedicated Ms. Pac PCBs from the 90's?
 
Will do! I'll scan the manuals and post em too. The thing I think is weird is that its from 1997. What versions of Ms. Pacman were getting kits at that point? Did Namco rerelease versions of Ms. Pac in the mid 90's? I know there were the reunion editions, and the namco classics museum editions, but where there dedicated Ms. Pac PCBs from the 90's?

There's nothing in the KLOV database at that point. Was Pac still hanging around then? If they were trying to get a network off the ground, then perhaps they went with a lastingly popular game instead of a recent one? According to Brentradio, there were about 115K Mrs Pac uprights made officially, and we know there were a heck of a lot of boots on top of that. We also know that it's STILL a popular game (there's almost 1000 units in the VAPS user database).

In addition, it probably wasn't that hard to do whatever needed doing to make the adapter thing work with Mrs. Pac - it was by then WELL understood hardware and software, and the hardware was pretty long in the tooth, so it would have been pretty easy to do any mods necessary.

I'll be fascinated to see what you learn.
 
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