Jolt Country

So I'm in a bowling alley drinking beer last Saturday and and I see a Ms. Pac Man cabinet in the bar. Hmmph, thinks I. I used to be pretty good at that and the machine looks in really good shape. I'll feed it a quarter and see how I still hold up. When I got up close I notice it's really in a Galaga cabinet, which is weird because I could have sworn it was a Ms. Pac Man cabinet when I walked in.
Turns out it's both Ms. Pac Man and Galaga. It's a re-issue game and if you hit the Galaga start buttons that's what you play. Has a slogan on the marquee that says: 'The Class of 1982'. Or maybe '83, I forget. Good cold beers. Anyway, it costs fifty cents to play, which almost made me turn away, but it dih-int. The pac speed was up to almost insane. With Ms. going that fast I cleared the first board perfectly, but no free (ding ding ding ding) extra life. Bummer. I got it on the second, tho. Seven boards total. Not even close to the high score but I count boards, not points. I give it seven out of ten for being retro.


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AARDVARK


This is a brochure link

If it's the same one at that pinball place we go to out here, you can continue your game and get more lives with extra quarters. Meaning the high score on it is a complete fraud.

You can also play original Pac-Man by doing something with the joystick and/or buttons after putting money in.

I had already dropped half a buck on it, there was no way I was feeding it any more quay monsters. High score run-up is a cheap way out if you ask me.


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AArdvark wrote:I had already dropped half a buck on it, there was no way I was feeding it any more quay monsters.

As well you shouldn't! Unfortunately for arcade games, the price to play one is inflation-proof, like how comic books and video games should be. Nobody wants to pay $125 for a computer game, even though inflation should make it so, and nobody wants to keep dumping money into Ms. Pac-Man with a speed-up chip until they have the high score. Especially since I don't think the Class of 82 version saves initials.

(I was at a Dave and Busters last year and I was at the Ms. Pac-Man game, doing all right. A couple was loitering behind me. I had at least another ten minutes in me, so I offed myself so they could play. I would rather not give everyone else in the world a poor impression of these things, so I do what I can.)

suuuuure ya did.