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Title: amateur Ms Pac Man documentary
Post by: vintagegamer on August 25, 2007, 09:29:49 pm
The guy's got some ball$ doing all this with the game turned ON..

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-lEBlzSrcQw
Title: Re: amateur Ms Pac Man documentary
Post by: Mamed for life on August 25, 2007, 09:43:41 pm
Nice video.

As a noob at this, why does the Ms Pac in the video have 3 leafs on the joystick, kind of like the Warlords that people were talking about a while back?

Sorry if I'm way off on this, I've never even seen a real Ms Pac, just played it in Mame, so I thought that it would be a simple on/off switch.

MfL
Title: Re: amateur Ms Pac Man documentary
Post by: BobA on August 26, 2007, 10:05:05 am
I think the extra leaf just gives the back contact strength and a bit more resiliancy.    Not sure what you are refering to on Warlords, it was a spinner/paddle game.

Title: Re: amateur Ms Pac Man documentary
Post by: torez on August 26, 2007, 02:46:02 pm
He says that the motherboard is just like a game cartridge in the newer games.  LOL   Well, a cartridge still has to plug in to a computer interface to make it work.  If mobo was a cartridge, where would you plug that cartridge in, to the on/off switch???  :laugh2:
Title: Re: amateur Ms Pac Man documentary
Post by: BobA on August 26, 2007, 06:08:14 pm
He also called the pots used for adjustment "switches" and put his fingers very close to HV with the unit turned on.  Entertaining but not alot of knowledge.
Title: Re: amateur Ms Pac Man documentary
Post by: rockin_rick on August 27, 2007, 01:25:53 am
As a noob at this, why does the Ms Pac in the video have 3 leafs on the joystick, kind of like the Warlords that people were talking about a while back?

You're thinking of Wizard of Wor, not Warlords...

Rick
Title: Re: amateur Ms Pac Man documentary
Post by: torez on August 27, 2007, 10:12:50 am
He says that the motherboard is just like a game cartridge in the newer games.  LOL   Well, a cartridge still has to plug in to a computer interface to make it work.  If mobo was a cartridge, where would you plug that cartridge in, to the on/off switch???  :laugh2:

Eh, you plug it in, and you play it.  Pretty decent analogy.

If Ms. Pac-Man was a Jamma, then you can plug in the board, unfortunately, it wasn't.  His analogy does not hold water, but it's more likely to hold hot air.  Yes, he can plugin in Ms. Pac-Man, but only to the electrical outlet in the wall.
Title: Re: amateur Ms Pac Man documentary
Post by: SirPeale on August 27, 2007, 12:19:37 pm
He says that the motherboard is just like a game cartridge in the newer games.  LOL   Well, a cartridge still has to plug in to a computer interface to make it work.  If mobo was a cartridge, where would you plug that cartridge in, to the on/off switch???  :laugh2:

Eh, you plug it in, and you play it.  Pretty decent analogy.

If Ms. Pac-Man was a Jamma, then you can plug in the board, unfortunately, it wasn't.  His analogy does not hold water, but it's more likely to hold hot air.  Yes, he can plugin in Ms. Pac-Man, but only to the electrical outlet in the wall.

Before the JAMMA standardization you could only swap out boardsets with the same pinout.  Pac-Man would work.  Galaxian would *almost* work.  The analogy is sound, it just applies more to games made after '87.
Title: Re: amateur Ms Pac Man documentary
Post by: torez on August 27, 2007, 05:42:13 pm
The analogy is sound, it just applies more to games made after '87.

... which is not the case here.
Title: Re: amateur Ms Pac Man documentary
Post by: SirPeale on August 27, 2007, 09:57:20 pm
The analogy is sound, it just applies more to games made after '87.

... which is not the case here.

Well, "duh", Capitan Obvious.
Title: Re: amateur Ms Pac Man documentary
Post by: torez on August 28, 2007, 12:32:41 am
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