Pac-Machina

[SavannahLion]

As a regular reader of HaD, I'm truly astonished this one missed my radar. I'm even more astonished that I originally missed his intent behind the project, which is to auction it off and put the money towards Child's Play.

Jonathan M. Guberman intends to build an Electro-Mechanical version of Pac-Man (the only thing that would virtually guarantee him permanent residency in any arcade hall of fame would be if he were to make it truly mechanical   ) by mechanizing the characters and play field. The game logic and "power" driving the gears will be electrical using a motor and a microcontroller.

It's not the first time SteamPunk or DieselPunk fans create a "mechanical" version of Pac-Man but those have always been non-functioning. Just for show. And to be honest, kind of against the spirit of the whole mechanizing idea.

Pac-Machina
Pactuator

What sucks is that Namco made it very clear they didn't want him selling kits of this thing. Too bad, that would've been one hell of a conversation piece.