Ms Pacman rubber kickplate?

[2PacMan]

Does anyone know if the original Ms Pacman cabinet had the rubber kick plate installed at the bottom from the factory, or was that something that was added at a later time?  Looks like about 50% I see have them, the rest don't.  It looks like super pacman had it factory installed, nearly every one of those i see has one.  Just trying to restore mine to 100% factory accurate.

[Ken Layton]

Every Ms. Pac we had on our route (back in the glory days) had a kickplate on it. BTW, that was not made of rubber. It was a black vinyl plastic.

[2PacMan]

Thanks ken, that's kind of what i thought.  The instruction manual shows one, and the more i look at my game, i think i can see some staple holes at the bottom where one used to be.

The only problem is that it looks like it covers up a little bit of the bottom of the ghosts, and in my opinion, it looks better without it.  Now that the game is home use only, i see no need for it.  What is your guys's opinion on it.  Does it look 'incomplete' without the kickplate?

[Lutus]

I say it looks better without it as well. 

It's a home machine, show it off!!!