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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: BUCKETHEAD on November 09, 2007, 07:16:05 pm

Title: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: BUCKETHEAD on November 09, 2007, 07:16:05 pm: Anyone seen these yet ?

Damn they are $$$$$ and Ugly too !

eBay Link (http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-PAC-MAN-MS-PACMAN-GALAGA-HOME-TABLETOP-MODEL_W0QQitemZ300166965105QQihZ020QQcategoryZ13716QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: csa3d on November 09, 2007, 07:20:00 pm: not to mention, they come with a 16" LCD screen. Guess things are really about lessening manufacturing expenses. I've always felt the artwork could have been a bit more in style with the older machines as well. :dunno

-csa
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: BUCKETHEAD on November 09, 2007, 09:59:18 pm: I think the artwork is awesome.

It is the way that it is put together that is ugly!

Not even a marquee !! :(
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: BobA on November 09, 2007, 11:20:17 pm: I could not find a single picture of the Galaga side of the tabletop. Everyone seems to be using exactly the same picture.
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: Ahigh on November 11, 2007, 07:28:18 pm: The first time I saw a prototype of this product, they were hacking galaga and if you fired more than two bullets it would erase the oldest bullet and fire a new one. It has numerous inserted bugs too (bad hacking).

It seems the cabinet design suffers the same problems. They wanted to do too much. It'd be better with one side that looks like the original pac-man unaltered, and the other side galaga unaltered. Why they need to put both on each side makes sense, but there's something to be said about not adding crap that isn't part of the original.

Basically, the winking pac-man has nothing to do with either pac-man and is the more modern pac-man artwork. I think it has no place on this product myself.
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: rlemmon on November 11, 2007, 09:19:17 pm: I hate to say it but that thing is f'ugly !
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: KDOG on November 11, 2007, 11:08:46 pm: The price is outrageous. $2,100 dollars, drop $1500 of the price and it still ugly.
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: FrizzleFried on November 12, 2007, 10:23:20 am: I think it looks cool...but only maybe $200 cool...so they are over 10x overpriced.
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: Havok on November 12, 2007, 10:59:02 am: I can appreciate the look - they scaled down (sort of) a full size. I don't think it looks so bad. However, I would have included a marquee, and of course the price is outrageous...
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: knave on November 13, 2007, 12:54:12 pm: Where's the Marquee? ???
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: bishmasterb on November 17, 2007, 11:22:15 pm: Ack! They could've downloaded my plans... :)

(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g168/bishmasterb/pacman1-large.jpg)
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: rlemmon on November 18, 2007, 04:13:23 am: Quote from: bishmasterb on November 17, 2007, 11:22:15 pm
Ack! They could've downloaded my plans... :)

(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g168/bishmasterb/pacman1-large.jpg)

Could have and should have. I can't imagine anyone dropping 2 grand on that.
Title: Re: PAC-MAN 25th Anniversary tabletop
Post by: Kevin Mullins on November 18, 2007, 12:49:12 pm: The full-size arcade version of this is just as bad in my opinion.
The cabinet style is ok, but the artwork and colors were poorly thought out which also makes them ugly.

That tabletop version is just a joke..........period.