PAC MAN.. 1980'S ORIGINAL ARCADE GAME

Ending: Dec 21, 2009 - 09:35 PST
Ships to: Local pick-up only
Located: Crown Point, Indiana, United States

Quoting the seller:

This auction is for A PAC MAN Arcade Game. It is all original, except installed a new monitor 2wks ago. It is in Excellent Working Condition.

Serviced every 6months, to keep in original excellent shape. Normal wear and tear only because it is 30yrs old... Excellent addition to anyone's collection. 

If you have any questions about this auction please don't hesitate to contact me, I am happy to answer any questions. I am a very honest person and I always expect the same from everyone else. I will not list or sell anything that is damaged, broken or does not work.

Ending: Oct 20, 2009  -  08:27  PDT
Ships to: Local pick-up only
Located: Marietta, GA, United States

Quoting the seller:

 This is a combination video game and pinball machine made by Bally called Baby Pacman. The machine is in fine working order. The cabinet is in fair condition. It is located in Marietta, GA- Local pick up only- Machine is sold as-is. Make an offer!

Ending: Oct 20, 2009  -  08:27  PDT
Ships to: Medford, United States
Located: : United States

Quoting the seller:

Up for auction is a perhaps the nicest Pacman Cocktail a collector will ever find. As a hobbyist and lover of the classics, I restored this myself over many months. Please note this is an original Pacman table, not a Ms. Pacman that has been converted. You collectors out there will know the difference. The cabinet number is 11129. The counter is original and shows less than 8,000 plays, which is unusually low.

I completely disassembled the game. Every part was removed to be restored. The cabinet was thoroughly cleaned inside and out. You can see in the photos that you could eat off the floor on the inside of this machine. Most of them are very nasty. The control panels and joystick carriages were dismantled, finely sandblasted in my media cabinet, painted, baked and reassembled. The one and two player buttons were replaced with new as were all 4 bulbs. Care was taken to re-use the original overlays. The coin door got the same treatment. It was taken down to bare metal and rebuilt to new specs, wires tied and wrapped, all bulbs replaced with new. The plastic coin mech was replaced with a metal one and dialed in perfectly. All components were professionally resoldered.

The power board and harness were completely removed and cleaned. All 7 fuses were replaced with new despite their condition. Then I removed the pedestal footing from the bottom of the cabinet. These were originally made from plywood... poor choice. Using the exact specs of the original base, we crafted a new pedestal base from solid wood and replaced all four feet with new ones purchased from arcadeparts.com.

The board is not seen in the photos, because I sent it away to be serviced by Dick Millikan who is a board expert in Washington. He installed a 4 in 1 Pacman kit. This game is now back together and will play Pacman regular speed, Pacman high speed, Ms Pacman regular speed, or Ms Pacman high speed. The monitor in this game is original and is bright, which is rare to find. The glass is original, but the underlay is a brand new reproduction from Two-Bit Score. As the glass is original, it has scratches. Two-Bit Score sells new ones. That is about the only thing keeping this from being a 100% perfect game. Even the clips for the glass were media blasted, painted and baked.

Lastly I carefully taped off the whole cabinet to paint the new base footing and the corners, as you can see in the photo. Then I replaced the grounded power cord with a brand new one. The three grilles are original and were not repainted. They are in good condition, but not perfect. The game comes with two keys.

LOCAL PICK-UP VASTLY PREFERRED! Medford, Oregon 97504. More photos available upon request. Thanks -Alex 541-210-0250

We had tears in our eyes... watch this :-)

Crochered Pac-Man and Ghosts Pattern

Quoting creator Carey Huffman:

Around January this year a friend of mine hinted that he would like me to make him a Pac-Man toy. I ended up designing him not only pacman but also a full set of ghost to go with it. After showing off on Craftster and Flickr many people begged for the pattern (pdf). So here is is at long last the Crocheted Pac-Man brought to you free thanks to the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivs 2.5 License.

tweenbots.com - Robot/People art by Kacie Kinzer:

In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.

Pac Man Museum opens! 

 Thanks to jrhunt for promoting the museum.

Paper Arcade - excellent papercraft arcade creations

At  wayoftherodent.com you find a nice collection of papercraft arcade cabins. Print out the – if you will – paper-engineered blueprints (should scale to fit any paper size* see page for more help on printing). Cut, fold, make, be proud of.

 El museo del mítico Pac Man abre sus puertas

Y lo mejor de todo que para visitarlo no se tienen que mover de su PC! Es un museo virtual, una página web dedicada al ya mítico personaje de los VideoJuegos, el Sr. Pac Man. Hace ya 29 años que este simpático amiguito de pixels fue creado, por un Japones en aquel entonces de 27 años, Toru Iwatani.

Sabe como se le ocurrio la idea? Simple... estaba muerto de hambre, entre sus largas sesiones de diseño de juegos, se pidio una pizza, agarro el primer pedazo, y ahi quedo la forma del Pac Man en, una pizza incompleta, sin un triangulo, que ya se lo habia comido. De ahi surgió un ícono cultural de los 80.


En el sitio hay de todo sobre el Pac Man, coleccionables, entrevistas al creador, artículos a la venta en E-bay, maquinitas originales, disfrazes, en fin, todo lo que se les pueda ocurrir. Para explorarlo con tiempo, el museo del Pac Man en la web.

Take a stroll through the virtual Pac-Man museum

Thanks to Shaggy for promoting the museum!

The museum is featured at nerdcore.de
We made it to the link section and hope for more ;-)

The Museum is featured at www.retromagazine.eu (German)
Thanks to Kai Lunkeit for the promotion. 

Passend zum 29. Geburtstag des gelben Pillenmampfers hat unter pacmanmuseum.com das gleichnamige Museum seine virtuellen Pforten geöffnet. Neben einer umfangreichen Historie und laufend aktualisierten News rund um das Thema Pac-Man bietet die Seite auch noch Links zu laufenden Pac-Man eBay-Auktionen sowie Bilder zu Kuriositäten wie Pac-Man-Plüschtieren, Pac-Man-Brotdosen und anderem. Ein Shop ist ebenfalls bereits geplant.

In this clip at youtube taken from The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters - you meet one of the gamers, Mark Alipiger.
That´s Arcade for a living...!

Here’s a great tutorial by Jocelyn over at Snack Or Die for some homemade Pac Man sugar cookies.

As for the ghosty shape, Jocelyn used a tulip shaped cookie cutter. Good to know since a tulip would probably be easier to find than digging around through the ol’ Halloween bin.

When Toru Iwatani hungrily stared into his pizza box, he removed a slice of pizza and the idea for one of the greatest arcade games was born. At 27 years, the japanese game designer came up with the idea for Pac-Man - a game that became legend, and spawned numerous sequals and clones.