couple of rare ones..

[adder]

yay 

[chopperthedog]

We all know a picture can be worth a thousand words. But can you give us any details of these pieces? Did you just pick them up? Something you saw somewhere? I'm interested in more info on the tetris.



good day.

[yotsuya]

Seen that Ms Pac-Man on klov. Story?

[pbj]

Of all things, I've seen a Bally Playboy in a cabinet similar to that Ms Pac...

[adder]

We all know a picture can be worth a thousand words. But can you give us any details of these pieces? Did you just pick them up? Something you saw somewhere? I'm interested in more info on the tetris.
good day.

hey, not mine unfortunately but i saw them at these links:

tetris:
http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=363091

ms. pacman:
http://www.jammaplus.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=81827

[pbj]

Sigh.  Get out.

[paigeoliver]

The Ms. Pacs like that are a vintage item, having been around forever, however their parentage has been heavily disputed.

Basic cliff notes.

Negative
They are a worst of all world's design that is neither functional (2 player alternating game that requires a chair, no room for the coin box), nor safe (stock Ms. Pac glass just waiting to shatter, no t-molding to protect the cabinet or the clients). It also fails at the stated idea of saving space as it uses more. Cabinet design recycles every component used from the upright. There is no documentation that these every existed, and the cabinet design is more that of a traditional furniture builder than an arcade builder, which is strange since Midway had their own cabinet shop. Every one out there appears to be slightly different.

Positive.
They seem to have mostly surfaced in Chicago where Midway was. There are a lot of second hand conflicting stories about  them coming from Midway (sometimes Namco, see how I mentioned conflicting). Some rather trustworthy people in the industry say they are real (Only a slight positive since most of those people have financial interest in one). The bezels on them seem to be a fraction of an inch shorter than on an upright cabinet on at least one cabinet checked.

[gdonovan]

Of all things, I've seen a Bally Playboy in a cabinet similar to that Ms Pac...

I have seen that cabinet before... but a long time ago. In a bar maybe? Memory is fuzzy.

[pbj]

It was at the Dallas pinball show in 2004.  Dan Ferguson bought it and converted it to Stern Stars and has it at his LSPA.  The story he was told was that a furniture company was making wheelchair friendly pinball cabinets.

[jan25th]

Both look like they came from Soviet Russia.