Original Baby Pac Art

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Not mine, but there's an empty Baby Pac cab on E-bay right now that has the original side art on one of the sides. It's not complete, but damn...it would be great if someone closer to it could pick it up, do a high resolution scan of the side art, work some Photoshop magic to finish it, and maybe do some repro prints.

I'm just sayin'... :):):)

Way too far for me.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Baby-Pac-Man-Arcade-Game-/180696106240?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1253c500


Man I could totally use that cabinet... my Baby Pac is pretty damaged (Lots of MDF swelling) and I was looking for a replacement cabinet anyways. Not sure I want to drive all that way for an empty cab though... :)
 
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Not mine, but there's an empty Baby Pac cab on E-bay right now that has the original side art on one of the sides. It's not complete, but damn...it would be great if someone closer to it could pick it up, do a high resolution scan of the side art, work some Photoshop magic to finish it, and maybe do some repro prints.

I'm just sayin'... :):):):):)

Way too far for me.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Baby-Pac-Man-Arcade-Game-/180696106240?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1253c500

to my knowledge there were 2 versions. the flyer shows the pink version you refer to, which I believe is uncommon

the version I offer was scanned from an original beat up cabinet from Al Gross's shop back in 2002 that matched all the other original baby pacs he had on hand. plus you keep an eye on the auctions on ebay for original baby pacs with torn and/or faded side art and you'll see most of them the same verison as mine

I suppose my next reprint could offer pink too if its that important to enough people
 
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Yeah, I've seen that, but the one on E-bay has the ORIGINAL art work (on one side).

Can't find that anywhere!

I did a repro run of the original sideart about 10 years ago. I bought the Baby Pac "promo poster" off eBay (which is the same as the sideart without any adhesive) and scanned it in. It's already scanned, cleaned and adjusted. The only bad part was that the place I had it printed at had a darker magenta than I thought they would've had, but the magenta of the sideart matches the magenta in the marquee and the monitor glass perfectly. (It was my first and only try at doing a repro, so I was more ignorant then than I am now). So, the pink could probably use some tweaking to match the original. If I'd get off my lazy butt, all I would have to do is to use one of my Pantone books to find the match and adjust it. It'd only take me about 15 minutes.

The reason I scanned that one and put it on my machine was because that's the sideart that was originally on the machine before I stripped and painted it. The start buttons also aren't cones and just two little red buttons. I still have to check the serial on it because I believe it's one of the earliest runs they did.

I think I still have one piece of my old repro run left. If not, I still have the hi-res scan I did.

Bill
 

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I did a repro run of the original sideart about 10 years ago. I bought the Baby Pac "promo poster" off eBay (which is the same as the sideart without any adhesive) and scanned it in. It's already scanned, cleaned and adjusted. The only bad part was that the place I had it printed at had a darker magenta than I thought they would've had, but the magenta of the sideart matches the magenta in the marquee and the monitor glass perfectly. (It was my first and only try at doing a repro, so I was more ignorant then than I am now). So, the pink could probably use some tweaking to match the original. If I'd get off my lazy butt, all I would have to do is to use one of my Pantone books to find the match and adjust it. It'd only take me about 15 minutes.

The reason I scanned that one and put it on my machine was because that's the sideart that was originally on the machine before I stripped and painted it. The start buttons also aren't cones and just two little red buttons. I still have to check the serial on it because I believe it's one of the earliest runs they did.

I think I still have one piece of my old repro run left. If not, I still have the hi-res scan I did.

Bill

Nice! I'd love to have the original Pink artwork. If you do a run with the pink adjusted, please let me know.
 
I agree, it does look undersized, but I like the design better than the black, and...to my understanding...it is the ORIGINAL artwork.

Here is what is on my original cabinet, both sides:

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That's actually the more common, second run of sideart. The original, earliest machines had the pink bottom.
 
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