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Pac-Man moves into the house

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From my CoinOpSpace.com arcade blog.

This is a long overdue post considering on April 18th I said “I put my Pac-Man in my house today!” on Twitter. :-)

Its final resting place is all the way up against that back wall. But I like this picture with Grandson and Grandpa playing side by side. :-)

When I got it, it had garbage on the screen. Here is a list of repairs.

  • Replaced Fuse Block + fresh fuses.
  • Flipped the Z80 Sync Bus Controller card so it would stop blowing fuses!
  • Replaced multiple RAM chips to clear up screen garbage.
  • Replaced sound transistor to restore sound to the game.
  • Reattached heat sinks to overheating chips on the lower portion of the board, to solve overheating color and behavioral problems. (Used thermal grease… I haven’t checked to see if that’s holding or not yet.)

Arcade Trip Horror Story!

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So there is an arcade collector I know and his name is Jeff Rothe. Recently he planned a very full weekend of picking up and delivering arcade games spanning from his home in Indiana to St Louis to Chicago and home.

Apparently it was one of those trips where anything and everything went wrong… and then some! Well, short of destroying the games. So much happened over this weekend, that his story took 5 posts to complete!

This is my attempt to summarize Jeff’s odyssey into a list of events.

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New Projects: Pac-Man and Space Invaders Deluxe

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From my CoinOpSpace.com arcade blog.

After my success with bringing a Galaga 3 (Gaplus) cocktail back to life, last month I have been on the hunt for another good deal on a project game. Well, that hunt ended today with the purchase of a Pac-Man (PM) upright. The seller also had a Space Invaders Deluxe that he wanted to get rid of. I didn’t especially want it, but I got it cheap and ended up paying $180 for both. And to top it off, he delivered them to my garage for me! :-)

The seller said neither game has worked in about 4 years. I tried powering on the Pac-Man and it did nothing. But it was missing a fuse so I expected as much. ;-) I haven’t tried powering up the Space Invaders Deluxe yet, but by the seller’s description it may just play blind.

Upon further inspection, I found an interesting small board hanging inside the cabinet and a bag of parts in the cabinet. As it turns out I got a bonus ABC Diagnostic and Repair Kit from TwoBits.com! This is a $100 kit!! The way I figure it, if the kit fixes Pac-Man I essentially got the Pac-Man for $50. ;-)

Assuming I can get the Space Invaders Deluxe working I am going to need a bezel/marquee glass. If anyone has a source for one, let me know. :-)

The first name on the TwoBits’ receipt is different than the seller’s. And since the seller said the games were at his mom’s house made me think the games were his dad’s. So I won’t get any more answers out of him about their repair history.

The batteries on my camera died, so I will have to take pictures to share tomorrow. Here are links to the photos.

Album: Pac-Man
Album: Space Invaders Deluxe