Noob needs help on "making an offer".

Offer what you are willing to pay for the machine. Chances are good that he picked it up cheap anyway. Frankly, I detest the "make an offer" when the person is educated enough to know what to ask.


By the way, since he is a fellow collector he may need some parts or technical expertise that you can offer up as partial trade as well. I prefer trading for parts over selling if the person has parts I need and that may be hard to find at a later date...
 
Well two things.
First, do you even want the Ms Pac board? Or do you really want a Pac board in it?
Figure that into your cost of paying. If you don't want the Ms. Pac, you are gonna need to buy a Pac board.

Second, Pacs usually run about $300 - $500 IMO. "Pac Man - Dedicated upright/cocktail $300-$500. Collector/ebay price. (seen them go for much more sometimes)"



oh and a bonus third... only pay what you want. There are TONS of Pacs out there!
 
I would offer $200 tops. Then you're in the ballpark, but just off the low end and maybe you'll get the person to tell you what they really want for the machine. Sounds like the person wants you to come in with a really high number, so turn the table on him/her. If you're going to make it all nice, you'll probably swap the board at some point.
 
anywhere from 50 to 500 just depends on condition man. hand wear scratches there goes a couple hundo. Is the bezel flaking? cpo condition? any monitor burn( pacs burn terrible just becuse they were worked for so long)

is the bse swollen or split, dryrotted, mold?

all things to take into consideration.

the ore stuff you see wrong, the less its worth. If the cab is rotten t the bottom or wobbley, its pretty much parts.
 
FWIW, I paid $200 last year for a working Pac converted to a Ms. Pac. It had substantial screen burn but I already had a new 19" monitor to slip in there.

Pac-Man cabinets are always screaming for help. They're made of plywood so the graphics peel away. It'll have wear along the front where people (for some reason) hang on for dear life with the unused hand. The kick panel will have most of the screened paint peeling off.

Restoring a Pac cabinet is a daunting task--I figure I spent 200 hours fixing mine via tedious hand painting. Many people opt out of that torture and apply full-coverage vinyl graphics. Even then, there's a lot of cabinet prep work needed to get a flat, clean surface. Usually, the vinyl overlays don't have the blue spatter, but I actually prefer mine spatter free.

A new PCB isn't necessary to convert it back from a Ms. Pac to an original Pac... you just need the Pac-Man ROM chips. Swap those then disconnect the satellite board. Pull the Z80 chip out of the satellite board and plug it into the socket on the PCB where the ribbon cable connected.
 
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i think $150 to $200 is a fair offer...most i would spend would be $300 since the monitor is in good shape.
 
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