96 Pac games in 1

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

This kit looks very interesting.

http://home.everestkc.net/mdoyle/multipac.htm

I have never even heard of most of these games. That's a lot of Pac. I don't think you could ever get sick of that much Pac!

[Vitriola]

Most people were BORN thst sick already.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Well, I went ahead and got it. It also includes Pengo and Space Invaders. Pics coming. Recommended!

[AArdvark]

Please don't let any of them make the list. How much dots can a pac-man pac if a pac man can pack dots? There's such a thing as pac man overload. I wish the humble Japanese would have left the name puck man so I could have changed it with a marker.






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[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Er, well, I did make the list a year ago, so it would be pretty rotten to dump a game and then add "Pac Man Vegas" or whatnot to it.

I can't get over how much more fun Pac is with the speed chip. It's like a whole new game.

[AArdvark]

Why not simply drop acid and play for a whole new gaming experience....

J-MAC Bobblehead night at Frontier Field; Will the world truly sink into the ooze of apathy


Why can't one play Madden 2K5 and pac man at the same time? Mix up the genres a little Go crazy.

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[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Ms. Pac! It's got, as mentioned, the kit, so it plays Pac Man, Pac Man Plus and various other variants. It also keeps high scores (the original Pac games lost them when you powered off the machine and did not allow you to enter initials: this gives you like 10 characters) has the speed chip, has a screensaver for goodness sake and plays other games like Pengo, Mr. TNT and "Alien Armada" which is, as far as I can tell, a perfect clone of Space Invaders.



Side view. There's a scratch on the side art. That brings up the question: should I get side art repros? I have only looked briefly, but I am seeing evidence that actual rights to Ms. Pac Man side art scans are controlled by one individual... and that people aren't thrilled with them. This kind of sucks, as I have no idea how to get touch-up paint in the exact shade of blue the cabinet used.



The control panel is new. It looks great. It's too nice for me. I need to bleach my fingers before I play.



The beginnings of a happy family! (Not shown: Crystal Castles, which is next to the couch downstairs, right near by.) Hopefully I begin making a MAME cabinet next year. I would also like to buy a pinball game, but right now... well, this deserves a different thread.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

1. Yes, that is laundy on that table. I need to get a new picture there before Dayna wakes up.

2. Special appearance from America's Least Favorite Guest: Beavis!

3. In one of the pictures there you can sort of see Space Invaders being played. Kind of. It looks like crap. The colors are really crisp and vibrant on the monitor.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Why can't one play Madden 2K5 and pac man at the same time? Mix up the genres a little Go crazy.

There is a guy on Caltrops who is trying to offer suggestions for the new Bob Ross Video Game coming out. His suggestion was a takeoff on Super Qix. In Super Qix, you reveal a picture with your territory-claiming.

His take was that the pencil should be Bob Ross's head, the images revealed his paintings and then the sparks would be forms of cancer that did Bob in. He said it in a much funnier way than I can accurately describe. Needless to say, that game would be fucking awesome and someone needs to make it.

[AArdvark]

The very mention of a Bob Ross and his happy little video games that live here is both appalling and deadly fascinating at the same time. Coupled with the fact that it's in the same thread as RobB's video cabinets give me the shivers. What pinball game are yiou looking for? Something digital, that gives you a million points for dropping a quarter or one of the electro-mechanical ones that have the knock solenoid and the Ding-Ding-Ding-Dung-Dung-Dung bars that so resemble a childs xylophone on the inside. Older ones have more class but are harder to repair (my Brother's has about a million contact switches in side the cabinet that absolutely refuse to stay clean for any length of time) I flipped the score one time tho. Thing only goes to 10,000

Get Firepower II, it's one of the better old-new ones.


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[Vitriola]

get rid of that GODDAMN card table. Those things are not allowed in my home. It's even broken.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Ms. Pac! It's got, as mentioned, the kit

The returns are in -- the above sentence did very well in the sniggering department within Britain.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Progress so far: with the speed chip, I made it to the 13th board in Ms. Pac at a score of about 122,000. That score is very low for the 13th board, in fact, I hit 115,000 at board 9. Having been able to get no higher than board 9 since the second night I owned it I decided to ignore the ghosts and just try to complete the highest board I could.

Of course, now that I think about it, I died in the first board in the game I got to the 13th in. I am reluctant to reset the game after an early death though. The monsters get paid, too.

In related news, Dayna's favorite of the 96-in-1 seems to be Pengo.

[AArdvark]

Did you remove the card table of shame and ridicule? That's the burning question...



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[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Did you remove the card table of shame and ridicule? That's the burning question...

I don't know quite how to dispose of it. I don't think I can cram it into our garbage can. What do you guys do with big pieces of trash you need hauled away?

[Casual Observer]

What do you guys do with big pieces of trash you need hauled away?

Here in the ghetto, if I wanted to dispose of something that has a shred of value like that card table - I would just put it by the street and a passing poor person would gladly take it within hours (sometime minutes). But that doesn't help folks like you in the suburbs.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

What do you guys do with big pieces of trash you need hauled away?

Here in the ghetto, if I wanted to dispose of something that has a shred of value like that card table - I would just put it by the street and a passing poor person would gladly take it within hours (sometime minutes). But that doesn't help folks like you in the suburbs.

I think the answer has revealed itself: bring it back to Longmont!!!

[Jethro Q. Walrustitty]

Holy burn-in, batman!

Looks like you need a new monitor.

Too bad we're so far apart, I might consider parting with one of my nice new 19" arcade monitors (to be replaced with one of the now-available arcade/CGA/VGA 19" monitors in one of the MAME cabinets.)

Surely there's SOME place locally that sells arcade parts. Might be worth calling to see what a replacement monitor would cost. Burn-in is one of those things that just can't be fixed without replacement, and makes a huge difference in the feel of the game.

I wouldn't worry so much about the scratch, myself. It's "authentic" - you'd do a lot of work to restore the art (it looks a bit sun-faded but that could just be the pic) but it would look more like a repro and less like the real thing. My Baby Pac has a nice scratch right through the art on one side - but it's a-staying, as is the original art on the Taito and Stern cabinets.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

The burn-in is an anomaly of the flash on the camera. Not sure if I can take a picture of what it looks like in real life. From the pic it looks like the Space Invaders are barely visible underneath it, but that's not truly the case.

[Jethro Q. Walrustitty]

So, you DENY the burn-in? What's next - denying the holocaust like Gibson's father?

Anyway, there's this wild new photographic technique that may help you. It's called, "turn the flash off."