Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: SavannahLion on February 24, 2011, 07:42:41 pm
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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 >:D ) 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 (http://www.spookypop.com/). Just for show. And to be honest, kind of against the spirit of the whole mechanizing idea.
Pac-Machina (http://upnotnorth.net/projects/pac-machina/)
Pactuator (http://upnotnorth.net/projects/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.