Has anyone else ever noticed that Joe is more relaxed than Ron is when he does these videos? Ron's more hyper. Joe has decided "It's broke!" when people bring things into the shop. It's a relaxing, zen state of mind unlike Ron who wants to know WHY things are broken. You have to diagnose it either way, Ron. Joe decreases his anxiety at least 15-20% by letting that go... Of course, it's all broken. We live in a human world!
used to spend all my misplaced childhood in those Arcades, i used to find those machines fascinating.. just the noise as soon as you used to go in those Arcades used to blow my mind
@@2bstiff584 You know what could be amazing? VR Pinball with 100% realistic graphics, and a controller that is literally a copy of the front of a pinball machine, with side buttons and plunger. It would not only allow you to play any pinball game that's ever been made, but to play weird pinball machines that are impractical to actually build, or even machines with "magic"/supernatural effects. But of course the underlying software would need to have accurate physics that matches reality.
@@bricaaron3978 visual pinball/visual pinmame does a pretty good job of emulating real pinball machines. That said, it's impossible to emulate the mechanical nature of a real pinball machine perfectly, even if you accounted for things like the minor inconsistencies of the same solenoids pulling in repeatedly, the coil strength changes when they start heating up from use, English on the ball, etc.
Great work Joey. While I’m not much of an arcade guy, I still enjoy your videos as you bring em back to life. This looks like a clean fun game for someone’s home room. Thanks for posting.
8's are Great! That is a really nice survivor! The last Pac-Man I fixed had the t-molding glued in! It took several days and a lot of patience to get it all out!
I like how you went to look for the G07 monitor and have dozens on the shelves in the store room. I wish I had extra parts like that. I think I would save the yellow bulbs as original and stash them safely in the back. I would probably switch the LED’s. I think it looks good as a 8. I like that the glass is still original. Now I wish I had the money to buy that and have it shipped to my house!
Asteroids in 1979. Atari's most popular game. Poured a couple thousand, easy, in quarters into Asteroids. The Atari logo made it to both Harrison Ford BladeRunner movies. Yes, Save the original Pac Man. It's a slam dunk, someone will buy it.
GREAT CONDITION!...love the videos,... very good to watch and learn from you guys!. i also have a "PAC-MAN" cabaret style... hello MIKE" where ever you are...
Damn it, now I have to complain.. Just finished the most recent Dracula video and was like time to get my butt in gear and do something this Sunday! NO! You drop this video and now I will get another close to 40 minutes of laziness! 😂😂😂
In 1980 I worked Arizona Cigarette and Amusement fixing these video games, worked at a big arcade chain throughout northern AZ too. I converted hundreds of these.
great vid.... wish you had added in some footage of you actually adjusting the screen controls to see how you were eyeball-ing the levels... without seeing the screen? Were you going to your known "default" positions as you've done so many... or could you see anything from within the back panel? Cheers.
I have an original Pac-Man that I bought from an arcade vendor back in 1994. They were close to changing it to a Ms. Pac-Man and I told them to stop. I gave them $300 for it. I was going to restore it, but decided to leave it original, since it still worked. I did recap the monitor about 20 years ago and it is still going strong. I did install a Two-Bits Multi-Pac board the same time that I did the recap of the monitor, but it is plug-n-play, so it is totally reversible. I always wanted a cabaret version, so I built a MAME Pac-Man cabaret cabinet. They look good side-by-side.
Hey I was helping you through the screen by answering your questions when you were adjusting the screen and such. You just need to turn your hearing aids up higher. loi j/p man. Great job on partially restoring this great and iconic Pac-Man cabinet!
Blinky Pinky Inky and Clyde would proud🎉 Nice cabinet:) Nice jukebox and slot machine either side of Ye Olde Pac man too while we wait for Moar Dracula's...
8 or 10 You have to run a buisness. I also say there something important. like an old car, leaving some petina on it says I am original! Good stuff Joe!
Great job on this one. I totally get your point about making the machine an eight instead of a ten, and I definitely think you got this one looking dang good. That's a pretty snazzy eight! Also, if I had one like this, I think I would prefer to have the yellow lights, just to match the whole yellow Pac-Man theme. Anyways, thanks for the fun video!
Yes there's a volume control but it's on the main board, so you have to take the back door off to get to it. Alternately you could unplug the speaker, it's behind the marquee on the front.
Heck yes! These things are incredibly valuable even if they don't work anymore. I know this would be like putting a modern engine in a classic car but if someone wanted to could they just get rid of the CRT and put in an LCD screen?
Saving an original Pac-Man machine? Of course you should do a restoration. Cabinet has some war battle on it. Needs new levelling feet! Remember them in same game room at Chicago's Union Station next to real pinball machines back in the day. Nothing wrong with selling an 8 out of 10. Cleaned up and working is good enough for government work Joe.
For an original in that condition KEEP IT ORIGINAL. That’s a rare survivor, save the full restorations for the ones that are already destroyed, converted, and painted over. Lord knows there’s enough of them. Keeping this one fully OG is the right move. Great video Joe!
@@BacktotheMedia Sorry but this is a working shop that does what their customers asks them to do. Your opinion may be valid but theirs will ALWAYS be the final say!
There were many bootlegs of Pac-Man and mod chips manufactured in the 1980s. Ms. Pac-Man was originally an unauthorized, reverse-engineered sequel (from the Pac-Man code) of the original Pac-Man. It was developed by the US licensor of Pac-Man, Midway (later developers of Defender and Mortal Kombat). People still have this idea Pac-Man was an American game but it was licensed from the Japanese arcade company, Namco (also developers of Tekken, Ridge Racer). They only see the cabinet copyright notice which doesn't mention Namco mostly. When Pac-Man (the actual game) boots up, you see the copyright is held by Namco and that it was licensed to Midway. Most people don't bother to pay attention or this fact slips by them. Pac-Man Plus was another Midway mod on Pac-Man. I played Pac-Man Plus in the arcade and it's also been in arcade compilation discs that have multiple Pac-Man games and sequels on them. Not hard to find for MAME, either... Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Man Plus were both Midway "sequels" to Pac-Man that were absorbed by Namco, the original developer of Pac-Man. I don't know if it was part of the licensing agreement that whatever Midway developed reverted to Namco property or they just agreed to NOT sue each other and made a handshake that the mods were Namco property.
@@AvengerII Midway never developed Defender, it was WIlliams all the way. Also, General Computer Company made the Pac-Man bootleg "Crazy Otto" but because of a legal agreement (with Atari), they had to obtain permission from the developer before selling it. (Atari thought no one would ever take them up on that.) They scheduled a meeting with Midway, who were upset about having to wait for a Pac-Man sequel from Namco, and thus pitched the idea that GCC make the sequel themselves, which became Ms. Pac-Man. Pac-Man Plus was a Pac-Man conversion kit done by Midway. The thing was, however, that Ms. Pac-Man was in essence a conversion kit sold as a full arcade unit (so as to increase profits), and as it was superior to Pac-Man Plus, people didn't bother with the kits. Namco got the rights to release both games in Japan, but they never retained the full perpetual rights to Ms. Pac-Man and the Pac family. Said rights having run out, you won't be finding these games in new Namco compilations: Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus, Baby Pac-Man and Junior Pac-Man.
@@andymouse The speedup hack is more prevalent in Ms. Pac-Man but it also appears in original Pac. I think it's just a single EPROM chip which changes a few bytes. There's a bootleg called "Pac-Man Deluxe" which nobody seems to have heard of or seen in the last 40 years, though it was mentioned in Joystik magazine back in the day, and a couple of my friends claimed they played it. It had a similar EPROM change that allowed 8 ghosts instead of 4.
@@andymouse Ms. Pac-Man was a total recode of Pac-Man; they added lipstick, eyes, and a bow to the Pac-Man design. The game IS faster-paced and has different maze designs than the original Pac-Man. The big changes with Pac-Man Plus were a faster-paced game, different treats in the middle of the maze (including a Coca-Cola can!), and ghost monsters that became invisible when you ate the power pellets. In some ways, I like Pac-Man Plus better than Pac-Man! Ms. Pac-Man is more frustrating to play because it's harder from the beginning. The treats also float through the maze! Like the video stated, the "mods" were just replacement chips for the existing Pac-Man hardware. There were Ms. Pac-Man cabinets that shipped brand-new but many Pac-Man cabinets were just reskinned with Ms. Pac-Man sideart, new marquee, and front cabinet art. There was no Pac-Man Plus cabinet made that I've ever heard about. They just put those chips inside existing Pac-Man cabinets. There were a ton of Pac-Man bootlegs, too. Copyright protection was virtually nonexistent in the early 1980s and had to be resolved through tons of lawsuits over the years! They ran Pac-Man bootlegs on a lot of other arcade hardware like the Galaga/Galaxian machines. They had different colors and sounded completely different from the authentic Pac-Man game!
1:16 the pinball that has the mallet on the top, with the red yellow green squares on the bottom of the back gladd and the window in the center and the woman laying across the top, it looks like an old 60s maybe 70s space theme. WHAT is the name of the game and how much is it going to be sold for? I really want to see this one play. It looks different than anything else I have seen. It has peaked my interest
Eh... I wouldn't say a florescent bulb is cheaper, other than cheaper to operate the machine. but we're in the future now so slap in some led replacement bulbs and it's fine either way.
They have these at Costco for $599.
They have a cardboard 2ft tall one at Costco made in China
Restore it bring it back to life :) please
Spoiler alert @1:54.
@@LyonsArcade No. They are now selling near, if not full size Pac-Man consoles that look exactly like this.
@@critterIMHOlike Joe @LyonsArcade said you have a full size cardboard one made in China
Simon understands Joe!!!!
I knew you would! Thanks man
The condition of that cabinet ... no brainer to restore it. Just aren't many true originals left.
Has anyone else ever noticed that Joe is more relaxed than Ron is when he does these videos?
Ron's more hyper.
Joe has decided "It's broke!" when people bring things into the shop. It's a relaxing, zen state of mind unlike Ron who wants to know WHY things are broken.
You have to diagnose it either way, Ron.
Joe decreases his anxiety at least 15-20% by letting that go... Of course, it's all broken. We live in a human world!
Joe and Ron just look at the same problem from their own point of view. I think that they both do a fine job when it comes to performing repairs.
At first I thought he had something with his voice, then realized it's just a different person doing this vid.
@@rc-fannl7364 Yeah, Joe does most of the Arcades and detail work on the pinball machines
used to spend all my misplaced childhood in those Arcades, i used to find those machines fascinating.. just the noise as soon as you used to go in those Arcades used to blow my mind
It was magical 😊
30:30 they probably switched to florescent for even lighting. Notice the shadow in the middle of the marquee.
I was yelling but I guess my mic is broke. I'll try to get another one before next time.
I would look into the rom images - there's a speedup hack on it. Not sure if that's a physical add-on board or a rom swap.
Joe - one thing on those marquee light bulbs .... if you put LED bulbs in, it'll reduce the heat greatly
absolutely save it!! Being a amusement machine specialist this sounds like super fun!! can't wait to watch the repair vids.
Even though I'm a pinball guy and Pac-Man played a big role in the downfall of pinball, it's a piece of history that needs to be restored.
I still love real pinball not that digital pinball crap
@@2bstiff584 What is the digital pinball crap? Do you mean pinball video games?
@@bricaaron3978 yes video pinball is what I meant to say a video game
@@2bstiff584 You know what could be amazing? VR Pinball with 100% realistic graphics, and a controller that is literally a copy of the front of a pinball machine, with side buttons and plunger.
It would not only allow you to play any pinball game that's ever been made, but to play weird pinball machines that are impractical to actually build, or even machines with "magic"/supernatural effects.
But of course the underlying software would need to have accurate physics that matches reality.
@@bricaaron3978 visual pinball/visual pinmame does a pretty good job of emulating real pinball machines. That said, it's impossible to emulate the mechanical nature of a real pinball machine perfectly, even if you accounted for things like the minor inconsistencies of the same solenoids pulling in repeatedly, the coil strength changes when they start heating up from use, English on the ball, etc.
“I don’t have all the answers” - Joe Lyons
Nice Job Joey! That game looks great!
Great work Joey. While I’m not much of an arcade guy, I still enjoy your videos as you bring em back to life. This looks like a clean fun game for someone’s home room. Thanks for posting.
thats a damn nice example of a Pac.
From Zero to Hero, this has been an excellent video! Great work Joe!
Yes, Joe. I completely understand
8's are Great! That is a really nice survivor! The last Pac-Man I fixed had the t-molding glued in! It took several days and a lot of patience to get it all out!
Hey Joe!!
You can start game, put Pacman in the safe place to adjust everything.
That was the ONLY time I've seen Pac Tmolding come off that easy!!
I like how you went to look for the G07 monitor and have dozens on the shelves in the store room. I wish I had extra parts like that. I think I would save the yellow bulbs as original and stash them safely in the back. I would probably switch the LED’s. I think it looks good as a 8. I like that the glass is still original. Now I wish I had the money to buy that and have it shipped to my house!
Asteroids in 1979. Atari's most popular game. Poured a couple thousand, easy, in quarters into Asteroids. The Atari logo made it to both Harrison Ford BladeRunner movies. Yes, Save the original Pac Man. It's a slam dunk, someone will buy it.
Good advice Joey. Make it an eight. I had figured this out a few years back and I love the simple way you said it.
GREAT CONDITION!...love the videos,... very good to watch and learn from you guys!.
i also have a "PAC-MAN" cabaret style... hello MIKE" where ever you are...
Hey Joe 8 is a lucky number!
Proud owner of this Pac-Man arcade cabinet, thanks Joe!
I what to see what blue skies pinball looks like being played. Play it Joe ... play it.
It's Broke!
"Keep going Joe! Keep... just right!"
Your best video yet Joe, you're getting good at it now.
Thanks Brad I appreciate it!
3:42 YES YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES!!!!!!!!
SO MANY STORIES OF GI's BRINGING THESE HOME
I LOVE THESE MACHINES
I FIXED 2 OF THEM
Nice job Joe! Looks great! It’s 40 years old! No need to make it a ten! Besides it shows it’s been well loved!
Yes! That would be awesome!
Damn it, now I have to complain.. Just finished the most recent Dracula video and was like time to get my butt in gear and do something this Sunday! NO! You drop this video and now I will get another close to 40 minutes of laziness!
😂😂😂
I am always amazed at how primitive these machines look!
of course we would like to see another little slice of history be saved
In 1980 I worked Arizona Cigarette and Amusement fixing these video games, worked at a big arcade chain throughout northern AZ too. I converted hundreds of these.
One my Favorites! Please save it Joe and Ron.
great vid.... wish you had added in some footage of you actually adjusting the screen controls to see how you were eyeball-ing the levels... without seeing the screen? Were you going to your known "default" positions as you've done so many... or could you see anything from within the back panel? Cheers.
The standard practice in the TV industry is to set up a portable mirror. In this case if their camera has a flip-out display that would also work.
I'll try to include that, the next time
Thank you for another great video.
@5:17 Thanks for sharing
Were the original factory bulbs actually yellow?
I forgot about yellow bug bulbs
Leaving it as an 8 has it keep some of its charm. Where do you get your leg levelers at?
Played lots of PacMan riding my bicycle to Belmar Playland in the summer way back in the 80s.
Good to see ya Joe!!
I have an original Pac-Man that I bought from an arcade vendor back in 1994. They were close to changing it to a Ms. Pac-Man and I told them to stop. I gave them $300 for it. I was going to restore it, but decided to leave it original, since it still worked. I did recap the monitor about 20 years ago and it is still going strong. I did install a Two-Bits Multi-Pac board the same time that I did the recap of the monitor, but it is plug-n-play, so it is totally reversible. I always wanted a cabaret version, so I built a MAME Pac-Man cabaret cabinet. They look good side-by-side.
Mine are not even tens. I’m ok with that. Your machines look like tens to me. Keep up the great work!
Hey I was helping you through the screen by answering your questions when you were adjusting the screen and such. You just need to turn your hearing aids up higher. loi j/p man. Great job on partially restoring this great and iconic Pac-Man cabinet!
Thanks for the help, I heard you!
Blinky Pinky Inky and Clyde would proud🎉
Nice cabinet:)
Nice jukebox and slot machine either side of Ye Olde Pac man too while we wait for Moar Dracula's...
Pac-man? Never heard of it. Was it popular?😀. Cheers for the vids.
Thanks! we appreciate that
Did PacMan always drift to the left, or is the joystick out of adjustment?
He starts out going to the left, it was made that way
We used to give a sharp tap using a D cell battery between the coin return on midway games and get free credits.
Joe you got Pac Man to 8.5
Good work.
I'm just amused by the 'Hi' written on the dusty screen...and the mallet on the pin in the background. :-)
I can’t believe you didn’t buy that 1920’s classic. 😂.
Is that NeoGeo 2 slot for sale?
Yes it is, Its a 1 slot tho did you watch the neo geo video from a few weeks ago? :)
8 or 10 You have to run a buisness. I also say there something important. like an old car, leaving some petina on it says I am original! Good stuff Joe!
i remember this game when it first came out it was so popular there is a novelty record call Pac-man fever
27:06 There’s 2 Galaga Arcades, Why Is That?
Love the channel !! Pac Man ,played that game many times. I prefer Pinball. Wish I had the room for some games.
Yes.
Great job on this one. I totally get your point about making the machine an eight instead of a ten, and I definitely think you got this one looking dang good. That's a pretty snazzy eight! Also, if I had one like this, I think I would prefer to have the yellow lights, just to match the whole yellow Pac-Man theme. Anyways, thanks for the fun video!
I just acquired an Original Atari Defender & Galaga in rough shape.
Not sure if I should Plane all the Boards and RePaint them to Original...
Beautiful machine. I want it!
Enjoyed the video. I’ve always gotten great parts, great repairs at Joes 👍highly recommend.
Is there a way to adjust the volume on this 1980 machine? Would be nice to be able to turn off volume so I can play when people are sleeping:)
Yes there's a volume control but it's on the main board, so you have to take the back door off to get to it. Alternately you could unplug the speaker, it's behind the marquee on the front.
Love it. Perfect 8.
Who even thought that this game, would inspire a way of life in the 1990's. Eating pills and running around to techno music.
An ex video this weekend heck yeah let's gooooooooo guys love your stuff keep doing what u guys do
Heck yes! These things are incredibly valuable even if they don't work anymore.
I know this would be like putting a modern engine in a classic car but if someone wanted to could they just get rid of the CRT and put in an LCD screen?
Definately
3:50 Man I had the most shty day of the year & watched this & laughed my ass off thanks!
I loved this game when I was 12. Even bought a pattern book and memorized a pattern that worked until the 5th key.
played for hours on those here in the uk
I see that you got a Super Mario pinball back there. That was a great game.
Saving an original Pac-Man machine? Of course you should do a restoration. Cabinet has some war battle on it. Needs
new levelling feet! Remember them in same game room at Chicago's Union Station next to real pinball machines back in
the day. Nothing wrong with selling an 8 out of 10. Cleaned up and working is good enough for government work Joe.
For an original in that condition KEEP IT ORIGINAL. That’s a rare survivor, save the full restorations for the ones that are already destroyed, converted, and painted over. Lord knows there’s enough of them. Keeping this one fully OG is the right move. Great video Joe!
@@BacktotheMedia Sorry but this is a working shop that does what their customers asks them to do. Your opinion may be valid but theirs will ALWAYS be the final say!
Awesome work ! Does this one have a board on it that makes go go faster or am I finally losing it ?...cheers !
There were many bootlegs of Pac-Man and mod chips manufactured in the 1980s.
Ms. Pac-Man was originally an unauthorized, reverse-engineered sequel (from the Pac-Man code) of the original Pac-Man. It was developed by the US licensor of Pac-Man, Midway (later developers of Defender and Mortal Kombat).
People still have this idea Pac-Man was an American game but it was licensed from the Japanese arcade company, Namco (also developers of Tekken, Ridge Racer). They only see the cabinet copyright notice which doesn't mention Namco mostly. When Pac-Man (the actual game) boots up, you see the copyright is held by Namco and that it was licensed to Midway. Most people don't bother to pay attention or this fact slips by them.
Pac-Man Plus was another Midway mod on Pac-Man. I played Pac-Man Plus in the arcade and it's also been in arcade compilation discs that have multiple Pac-Man games and sequels on them. Not hard to find for MAME, either...
Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Man Plus were both Midway "sequels" to Pac-Man that were absorbed by Namco, the original developer of Pac-Man. I don't know if it was part of the licensing agreement that whatever Midway developed reverted to Namco property or they just agreed to NOT sue each other and made a handshake that the mods were Namco property.
Cheers ! so what form did the 'Mod' take please ? like new ROM's or other hardware?@@AvengerII
@@AvengerII Midway never developed Defender, it was WIlliams all the way.
Also, General Computer Company made the Pac-Man bootleg "Crazy Otto" but because of a legal agreement (with Atari), they had to obtain permission from the developer before selling it. (Atari thought no one would ever take them up on that.) They scheduled a meeting with Midway, who were upset about having to wait for a Pac-Man sequel from Namco, and thus pitched the idea that GCC make the sequel themselves, which became Ms. Pac-Man.
Pac-Man Plus was a Pac-Man conversion kit done by Midway. The thing was, however, that Ms. Pac-Man was in essence a conversion kit sold as a full arcade unit (so as to increase profits), and as it was superior to Pac-Man Plus, people didn't bother with the kits.
Namco got the rights to release both games in Japan, but they never retained the full perpetual rights to Ms. Pac-Man and the Pac family. Said rights having run out, you won't be finding these games in new Namco compilations: Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus, Baby Pac-Man and Junior Pac-Man.
@@andymouse The speedup hack is more prevalent in Ms. Pac-Man but it also appears in original Pac. I think it's just a single EPROM chip which changes a few bytes.
There's a bootleg called "Pac-Man Deluxe" which nobody seems to have heard of or seen in the last 40 years, though it was mentioned in Joystik magazine back in the day, and a couple of my friends claimed they played it. It had a similar EPROM change that allowed 8 ghosts instead of 4.
@@andymouse Ms. Pac-Man was a total recode of Pac-Man; they added lipstick, eyes, and a bow to the Pac-Man design. The game IS faster-paced and has different maze designs than the original Pac-Man.
The big changes with Pac-Man Plus were a faster-paced game, different treats in the middle of the maze (including a Coca-Cola can!), and ghost monsters that became invisible when you ate the power pellets. In some ways, I like Pac-Man Plus better than Pac-Man!
Ms. Pac-Man is more frustrating to play because it's harder from the beginning. The treats also float through the maze!
Like the video stated, the "mods" were just replacement chips for the existing Pac-Man hardware. There were Ms. Pac-Man cabinets that shipped brand-new but many Pac-Man cabinets were just reskinned with Ms. Pac-Man sideart, new marquee, and front cabinet art.
There was no Pac-Man Plus cabinet made that I've ever heard about. They just put those chips inside existing Pac-Man cabinets.
There were a ton of Pac-Man bootlegs, too. Copyright protection was virtually nonexistent in the early 1980s and had to be resolved through tons of lawsuits over the years! They ran Pac-Man bootlegs on a lot of other arcade hardware like the Galaga/Galaxian machines. They had different colors and sounded completely different from the authentic Pac-Man game!
1:16 the pinball that has the mallet on the top, with the red yellow green squares on the bottom of the back gladd and the window in the center and the woman laying across the top, it looks like an old 60s maybe 70s space theme.
WHAT is the name of the game and how much is it going to be sold for?
I really want to see this one play. It looks different than anything else I have seen.
It has peaked my interest
Many Pac-Men died to bring you this footage.
1:15 What is that awesome looking pinball machine next to Mario behind the packman? That is unique.
Nice video. Have you ever restored really big or deluxe arcade machines? Something like a Sega R360. Or After Burner Deluxe with motion?
what rom chips are those? I've never seen pac-man move that fast--only the modified ms pac-man
The base four roms run both pac or Ms pac, the same chip speeds up either one
Watching this vid, I had a strange thought. In the 43 years since this cabinet was originally purchased, how many times this game has been played?
Pac-man is moving pretty fast. Modded board? Doesn't the original game move slower?
Why is it that all these old games seem to have the ground plug missing? What is it about the ground plug that makes it especially fragile?
Hard to imagine this game is 43 years old...
so what does this sell for? Can the speedup be disabled?
$1500 yes we can make it regular speed if you'd like
Where do you find this Stuff? I'd love to get into an older Pin Ball machine that I could fix up. Love the channel and you're content is excellent.
Great stuff! Regards
That is a beautiful machine in my eyes, yeah she's got some Battle Scars as we all do when we reach this girl's age. but remove the speed hack!!!
I wonder what percentage of arcade games used a portrait, and what percentage used a landscape display configuration...
The cleaning of the bottom and new t moldings took 30 years off this machine
What you have right there is an audio game.
I think the fact they had to change the name from "Puck-Man" for America is hilarious.
They probably knew us kids that thought we were sooooo funny would have scratched/altered the 'P' in "Puck-Man" to an 'F'.
Eh... I wouldn't say a florescent bulb is cheaper, other than cheaper to operate the machine. but we're in the future now so slap in some led replacement bulbs and it's fine either way.
It’s got the fast hack on it. Gotta remove that before you sell it. Easy ‘fix’ and makes it original again.
Oh course
I think I missed his initial thoughts. Did he have a hunch on what was wrong prior to his full diagnosis?
Donnie, what’s wrong with this one?
That's a kids toy from doctor offices in the 70s
They could've at least left ya the bad parts, so a real technician like yourselves couldve fixed it.
Make it an eight, sell it as as eight. If they want to pay to make it a ten I bet you know a guy.
Why would anyone here watch expert craftsman repairing a rare nearly priceless arcade game?
I dunno. I enjoy these guys making broke stuff unbroked.