Any recent trash into treasure projects with arcade cabs that are just too far gone? I just did a quick and dirty conversion. It was for a friend of mine who loves Williams games. I got a trashed Pac-Man for $100 locally. I called it the Franken-Man! or Pac-en-Stein! It was converted into an original Golden Tee in about 1990 era. They Gutted the harness and boards, re-wired with Jamma, took the original CRT and rotated it 90 deg. Then they cut huge chunks out of the sides. The control panel was hacked for the trackball. I thought about keeping the side art but they rolled on some thick clear stuff, and spray painted the edges. It looked soo bad I had to paint it black, but it was painful to do so. I put about $200 into it to make it a super cheap Multi-Willliams. I added a 19-in-1 board, Happs joysticks+buttons, painted it black, added fresh red t-mouilding, Photoshopped and printed some marquee+CPO artwork at the local Walgreens Photo center, some poster plexiglass I had laying around, added a coin lock, new power supply, 2 new LED light bulbs for marquee. The CRT is a K4600 and still needs a fresh cap kit. The screen's horizontal, as George would say, has significant shrinkage. Will need a C621 cap. Plays the big 4 Williams: Defender, Stargate, Robotron, and Joust. Robotron plays great on this. The CPO came out kind of hacky, so I will get a fresh Pac-Man steel control panel, and better CPO artwork. And do a proper translite for the marquee.











