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Title: Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: PacManFan on April 02, 2004, 11:56:51 am
Silver Sue is in My office!!! She's apparently a neighbor of my boss. For those of you who don't know, Silver Sue ran an arcade in Chicago that was a test bed for many "classic" arcade games back in the early 80's. She knows Eugene Jarvis (Defender and others), and got to hang out with all the cool programmers back in the day.

She was the industries' only female video arcade operator too. Another bit of trivia is that the ghost "Sue" in Ms. Pacman was named after her! She was interviewed in the April 83 issue of Joystik Magazine.

I'm going to get her autograph before she leaves.

Are there any questions that I should ask her from you guys?


-PMF
Title: Re:Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: CitznFish on April 02, 2004, 12:55:06 pm
"Hey baby, come to Butthead"  :naughty: ;D
Title: Re:Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: dirt on April 02, 2004, 12:56:08 pm
hey citznfish i thought i was the only one that used that line on women. ask her the obvious question. "what do you think of mame and the fact that alot of younger people are enjoying the classics now"

dirt
ps i'll bet you cant get an autograph for me. ::)
Title: Re:Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: PacManFan on April 02, 2004, 12:59:25 pm
Update,

She just left the office. I didn't get her autograph, However, I got her phone number. She's got a Robotron with a bad power supply, and she asked me if I could fix it for her. Eugene Jarvis himself modified the roms to put her name on the title screen.

She's also very interested in MAME, and is looking for a MAME cocktail cabinet.

-PMF
Title: Re:Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: Sasquatch! on April 02, 2004, 01:10:14 pm
Cut her head off to see if you gain her powers.
Title: Re:Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: Edgedamage on April 02, 2004, 01:23:58 pm
Update,

She just left the office. I didn't get her autograph, However, I got her phone number. She's got a Robotron with a bad power supply, and she asked me if I could fix it for her. Eugene Jarvis himself modified the roms to put her name on the title screen.

She's also very interested in MAME, and is looking for a MAME cocktail cabinet.

-PMF

Aww man those roms would be amazing to get into mame.
Title: Re:Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: Brax on April 02, 2004, 06:15:12 pm
Update,

She just left the office. I didn't get her autograph, However, I got her phone number. She's got a Robotron with a bad power supply, and she asked me if I could fix it for her. Eugene Jarvis himself modified the roms to put her name on the title screen.

She's also very interested in MAME, and is looking for a MAME cocktail cabinet.

-PMF

Aww man those roms would be amazing to get into mame.

Just yell, "AHHHH, PAC-MAN ate a power pill and here he comes!" When she runs away, grab the boards and split!!
 ;D

That WOULD be cool to see in Mame. I wonder if other developers did this? What other modified boards are out there?
Title: Re:Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: OSCAR on April 02, 2004, 06:49:56 pm
Update,

She just left the office. I didn't get her autograph, However, I got her phone number. She's got a Robotron with a bad power supply, and she asked me if I could fix it for her.


A former arcade operator that needs help with a power supply??

Methinks she was a bit sweet on ya, maybe just trying to get you to come over...   :)

(j/k)

Title: Re:Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: Dave_K. on April 02, 2004, 09:10:55 pm
Eugene Jarvis himself modified the roms to put her name on the title screen.

Not to make this sound ordinary, but what Eugine probably did was just go into the service menu and add her name to the atrract mode (its an option).  But to her, its "modding the roms".   ;D  I'm sure the pacman mod was more legit.
Title: Re:Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: menace on April 03, 2004, 09:43:31 am
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A former arcade operator that needs help with a power supply??

Methinks she was a bit sweet on ya, maybe just trying to get you to come over...  

I was thinking the same thing--maybe her nickname now is Cougar-Sue... ;D
Title: Re:Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: Edgedamage on April 03, 2004, 11:20:19 am
You would be shocked to know how many arcade operators don't know anything about arcade repair. I knew six operators and when they had a machine go down they just picked up the phone and called the tech.
Title: Re:Silver Sue is in My office!!!
Post by: Pipercub on April 03, 2004, 12:06:33 pm
True, to many of them it is just a business and they don't care or know about the games themselved beyond the collections stats.