Pac-man cabinet pictures needed!

[Dot-Muncher]

Greetings all!

I've been a frequent visitor to these forums, and am constantly amazed at all of the restoration work that goes on!  I myself have been an avid Pac-man fan for years, it's still my favorite game of all-time.  I'm looking into getting a machine soon, and look forward to restoring it to mint condition.

Recently I've decided to build a website devoted to Pac-man arcade games.  Basically it will be a one-stop site for anything related to the yellow fellow's arcade appearances.  This includes back history of the machines/games, technical data, strategy guides, pictures, etc...

I'm in need of some high quality pictures of a Pac-man arcade machine, so I'm turning to the experts for help!  If anyone here would be kind enough to take some straight on photos of the front of their machines, I'd be eternally grateful.  It would be best if I could get 2-3 straight on shots at varying heights!  Your machine would become the base graphic that the entire website's look will be drawn from, and you would of course receive credit on the site. 

Right now, it's just a domain name and a title graphic I made, but the coding and data gathering is well under way, and I'm hoping for a late March launch.  Take a look:

http://www.dotmunchers.com/

You can e-mail all photos to: webmaster242@gmail.com

Thanks so much in advance!

 

Dot-Muncher
(aka Brandon)

[CheffoJeffo]

My Pac project is way at the end of the list, so no pics, but some links of interest.

http://arcarc.xmission.com/Web%20Archives/Users.Erols.Com-mowerman%20%28Aug-24-2003%29/default.htm

http://lawnmowerman.rotheblog.com/

http://arcarc.xmission.com/Web%20Archives/Pac%20Man/Pacman%20Graphics/PACANAC.htm

Related repair info (should you want that) is available in the Restoration page in the Wiki.

And don't e-mail the damned photos, post them here so everybody can enjoy them!

 

PS -- thanks for posting about this -- I had forgotten where I saw a logic probe tutorial and it is on Mowerman's old page.

[Dot-Muncher]

Thanks a ton for those links!  Lot's of handy information there for sure!

My vision for the site is to have it look like a Pac-man arcade machine, with the site title where the marquee is, site contents where the monitor is, with the control panel and kick plate finishing off the bottom of each page.

I however have no high quality pictures of an immaculate Pac-Man machine from straight on...  I have some photos that I could probably get by with, but I hate ripping off anyone's photos for my own use with out permission.  Hence, I hope to have someone help me out by taking pictures of their own cabinet (and giving them full credit on the site once it's up of course!).

Here's a couple of photos along the lines of what I need:

http://www.dotmunchers.com/sample.html

I need full size pictures, anything wider than 1500 pixels would be best.  Basically the full-size photo from any camera over 5 megapixels would work just fine.

Thanks to all,

Brandon