OK everyone, I went and checked out A Ms. Pacman on Saturday. Not the one originally mentioned though

. I had a rummage sale Saturday and set out my Top Gunner to play and see if by some stroke of luck a sucker would come along and buy it for $250. (Side note, I STILL can't beat that damn game! Once you get to the final section, it doesn't let you continue, and it is damn impossible to get thru there unscathed.

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Anyways, this one guy stops by and we chat for a while and he mentions someone down at the flea market has a Ms. Pac sitting in a trailer off the beaten path. I figure it is worth a look so I head on down there. I find the machine and it is a total POS on first look. Painted black, beat up, CPO stripped of CP, but the marquee and bezel were nice at least, oh and it was a Rally-X cab, not a Ms. pac. I asked the lady about it and she said it worked and she could plug it in. I asked her what she was wanting out of it and she said $600!!!!! I said nah and walked around for a while. I came back in a bit to ask them to go ahead and plug it in. I figured I could at least take some pics so I could make fun of it later.

When they plugged it in, it appeared to be resetting itsself right after testing over and over. The screen was blotchy while it was on for a few seconds. I figured it may be the heat (It was near 100 and it was sitting in a trailer all day) so I told the guy to take the back off and it may work. Guess what, he didn't have the key.

After we pulled it out of the trailer and left the coin door open for a bit, it did get at least 2 or 3 seconds into the title screen - enough for me to see it was a bootleg Super Pac Gal. At that point I was getting ready to walk away, and the guy asked me if I would still be interested in the current condition. I couldn't resist giving the guy a reality check, so I told him in the shape it was with possibly bad power supply/boards, I could only give him $50, $100 Tops. He said he appreciated the offer, but originally paid $800 for it! I think he was full of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- myself. He had told me he bought it and 3 others (DK and 2 racing games), to fill up a spare bedroom for their son and now the son doesn't play them. So lets see...$800x4=$3200...yeah, riiiight. I figure he paid $800 for all four and was trying to rip someone off on the Ms. Pac to recoup fundage.