parabolic
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$130
This is a working boardset - the boards "look" like a bootleg (no daughter card, but original pacman board with stacked chips), but plays normally, and has the midway logo. I can include the full harness for an extra $25 more (needs new power switch), or another $50 more wil get the harness and full power brick, AND working power board! More less plug and play!
so to recap -
working ms pac board.
includes harness, power brick, and power supply board.
Thanks!
Jeff
EDIT!!
I had been in contact with Steve Golson and Doug Macrae (original MS pac Developers), and by the pics I sent its determined to be "some" kind of bootleg possibly based off a NAMCO pacman board:
(Quote from email)
Hi Jeff,
This looks like a Japanese Pac-Man bootleg. Many of the chips have their markings scrubbed off. The funny jumpers in the middle allow the board to be split in two and folded back on itself. No manufacturer's name. Looks very bootleg.
It's a funny number of EPROMs. Are they 2k 2716? or 4k 2532? or a mix?
Hmmm... it does have the two custom chips at 5S and 6D. Maybe it's a real Namco Pac-Man board. I'd want to hunt around for date codes to see when it was made. And I'd want to compare it to an actual Namco Pac-Man. Interesting. But I don't think Namco would have bothered to scrub the chip markings. So probably bootleg. And it's been hacked to run Ms. Pac-Man without a daughter card.
I'll be giving a talk at CAX this year about Crazy Otto / Ms. Pac-Man. We'll have the only-one-in-the-world Crazy Otto prototype to be played.
-Steve
This is a working boardset - the boards "look" like a bootleg (no daughter card, but original pacman board with stacked chips), but plays normally, and has the midway logo. I can include the full harness for an extra $25 more (needs new power switch), or another $50 more wil get the harness and full power brick, AND working power board! More less plug and play!
so to recap -
working ms pac board.
includes harness, power brick, and power supply board.
Thanks!
Jeff
EDIT!!
I had been in contact with Steve Golson and Doug Macrae (original MS pac Developers), and by the pics I sent its determined to be "some" kind of bootleg possibly based off a NAMCO pacman board:
(Quote from email)
Hi Jeff,
This looks like a Japanese Pac-Man bootleg. Many of the chips have their markings scrubbed off. The funny jumpers in the middle allow the board to be split in two and folded back on itself. No manufacturer's name. Looks very bootleg.
It's a funny number of EPROMs. Are they 2k 2716? or 4k 2532? or a mix?
Hmmm... it does have the two custom chips at 5S and 6D. Maybe it's a real Namco Pac-Man board. I'd want to hunt around for date codes to see when it was made. And I'd want to compare it to an actual Namco Pac-Man. Interesting. But I don't think Namco would have bothered to scrub the chip markings. So probably bootleg. And it's been hacked to run Ms. Pac-Man without a daughter card.
I'll be giving a talk at CAX this year about Crazy Otto / Ms. Pac-Man. We'll have the only-one-in-the-world Crazy Otto prototype to be played.
-Steve
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