Picked up an awesome Pac-Man bootleg called Buccaneer in a nice cabinet.

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Bought a lot of 5 games this week for $1500 (a Daytona Twin, Battle Wings, Lethal Enforces, an Atomiswave gun game and this bootleg) I was expecting it to be just standard pacman running on bootleg hardware judging by the og Willis cpo, but turns out there is actually a pacman knock-off called Buccaneer, where you play as a pirate instead of pacman and the ghost are skulls instead. I had originally planed on putting another game in the cab but I just love weird og bootlegs like this, just a cool (and odd) part of video game history!
 

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I love that game and cabinet. Good get. Keep it together.
I'm definitely keeping it together, the g07 just needs rebuilt and it should be good to go. I was thinking about replacing the hand painted marquee but I honestly think it just adds to its bootleg charm lol. I think I'm gonna get a small strip of white LEDs and put it below the marquee where you can't see them so it at least lights it up.
 
Great find. What's the game board look like? So many of these were some form of Galaxian/Moon Cresta/Pac-Man like boards. Even Make Trax boards can run Pac-Man.

Scott C.
 

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Love it.

As a kid I remember playing "popeye" pac-man -- Pac-Man with a Popeye head. I think the ghosts were still just ghosts, can't remember.

Also some other weird variants like Hangly Man... which used the standard Pac sprites but a different maze. Fun stuff.
 
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