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Imagine having a grandfather buying you a arcade machine in the 80´s, that must have been a dream. What a lucky person. Thank you for video as always. Get well.

"Have I grabbed the anode? Yup yup." Sooo that's what's wrong with you!

Cut coke on the glass! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Man, I find it just heartbreaking to hear someone got this as a gift from granpa, then hardly ever played it and proceeded to sell it forty years later.

Years ago, as a favor to a game route operator, I took a water damaged Ms PAC cocktail table, dismantled it, and duplicated the pieces and built a brand new cabinet. I continued making copies of that table. I used control panels, top glass, logic board, and Midway artwork purchased from CA. Robinson, an Electrohome G07 CRT, and new wiring. Looked like the original. That was good extra money for a while. 😀 Just a tip for you on those MSPAC monitors. If you solder a 10K ohm 1/2 watt resistor directly across the bulk cap, the G07s are safer, because the dingbat who designed the PCB put the fuse AFTER the bridge rectifier and bulk capacitor so when those pac monitors blow the fly back WHICH IS OFTEN, the 10k resistor will safely discharge the bulk cap. So you don’t have to find out it’s still charged the HARD way... but it sounds like you might ENJOY getting zapped by CRTs since it’s happened to you so often 🤣

That's the prettiest arcade game I've ever seen! Nicely done! I would love to own one. All good wishes!

Very awesome video man! It’s always nice to see such a beautiful and clean game like this one, I hope you are felling better and I hope you don’t get shocked by the monitors anymore! 👍🏻

This kid sounds like my cousin. Had every imaginable toy from the 70's and 80's. Never played with them. Still has them sitting in the original box.

Grandpa used to cuss "that little red bastard" all the time.

I have a memory of playing Pac-Man on one of these machines at my local Pizza Hut back in the 80's. I also remember a number of games being operated in this particular kind of machine. For years, I really wish I had one of these machines in my home. If I got one that was dead, I would find a way to update the cabinet so it could play a number of classic arcade games like Space Invaders, Centipede and others like the Arcade 1UP machines do.

It happens to all of us. But remember that the goal of the game is to always have fun when playing these kind of games.

Ron this arcade cabinet is a pure gem its 39 years old of pure 80s goodness and nostalgia I remember playing ms pacman when it came out in 1981 at the Atlantic city boardwalk arcade I remember playing pacman the year before awesome awesome

Home use in a crack house LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I remember seeing and playing one of these at a Chinese dim sum restaurant in the 80's. The restaurant was called Tai Tung, in Chinatown, Los Angeles.

Hope you're feeling better. Fantastic find. I know as amazed as I'd have been to have been gifted a Ms.Pac-Man, I'd have been very jealous of the sibling that got an Asteroids instead. Rich family!

I just discovered this channel recently, it's my new favorite arcade KZfaq channel. What a nice condition machine. I grew up playing the speed mod, and for awhile I thought that was the default. That's all I ever play on my multicade cab.

WOW! Show Room Ready! That is by far the cleanest I have ever seen!

That is a beautiful arcade machine. I honestly wish I had room for it. To think that something like this was not used in over 20 years is unreal. Awesome job with the vid! 👍

Good to see you back and I am glad you are making a good recovery. Finding this in original condition and in great shape is pretty amazing. I can see this one being gone even before we see the video. I love the old sound effects used in these Pac-Man games. They are simple, but just so great to play. You don't want to grab a live anode usually. Colour usually tries to bump up the voltage to compensate. It basically tries to kill you. :) Man, you made me hurt when I heard about the chainsaw to a Pac-Man. That's just brutal and evil!

Have the same machine in my home and I love it !!!! Its a great machine that I would never get rid of .

To find a vintage Ms. Pacman cocktail is a awesome but to find it in perfect condition now that's a gold mine

The speed chip was great. It made it easier to get through all the mazes

That is just amazing to see. I am used to rusted coin door parts, broken light sockets and dirt and grime all over every part. That machine is a rare find to be sure. Interesting fun fact is both original Pac-man and Ms. Pac-man have the strawberry for the prize on the second board. Even though the original Pac-man instructions say the strawberry is worth 200 points, it is in fact worth 300 points. On Ms. Pac-man it is worth only 200. So, technically the instructions printed on the original Pac-man bezel are incorrect. Worthless knowledge but one of those things that make these games so classically fun.

Someone opened a Pac Man with a chainsaw?! O.o Someone should have gone full Doom on him for that "Come here Pinky, time to brush those teeth! *vroom!* *vroom!* "

You dont know how to play ms pacman, but you are living the dream.

Another awesome video, Ron! I remember the Red Lobster I used to go to back in the day had a bunch of cocktail games in the lobby. Pretty sure there was a Ms. Pac-Man in the mix. Feel better, Ron and stay safe!

I never warmed to Pac Man, now Space Invaders that was completely different. I remember some operators added a multi-coloured see-through decal to the B&W screen. Instant colour!

I only razz you about your playing skills because it's comforting to me to see someone who's played as much as I have and is still about as bad as I am. :) Based on things I've heard you say, I think we probably had pretty similar arcade experiences in our youth. There's not too many games that I put enough time into to be REALLY good at. If I walked in to an arcade with 20 quarters, I wasn't going to play one game 20 times. I was gonna play 20 different games one time each. The few that I got pretty good at were the games that were the only one or two at a location where we went regularly. (I'm actually decent at Ms. Pac, as there was one at the grocery store and I'd get a handful of plays a couple times a week. And there are a few that I really focused on when I was working at Aladdin's Castle.) I'm still basically the same, be it at Galloping Ghost, Garcade, or on my MAME machine. I could play anything for hours and hours on end and get really good at something, but instead I just play once or twice and move on to something else. :) As always, thanks for the video.

Thanks for4 the video! I once had a paperback with some patterns!

PMMS because they wanted to say pms. lol thats great ! Im so glad you are feeling better! great looking machine!!

Hope the guy gets well because he must be sick to have sold that clean machine. Thanks for sharing such a lovely classic

Hi Joe could you please take some high definition video and high detail photos of the joysticks (everything from the ball to shaft to underneath) please? Once in a time opportunity. Thanks!!

Just a memory of mine but...Played this cocktail style cab of Ms Pac for the first time many moons ago (in the early 80's) as a single digit age kid lol forget how old but i was crazy young, at a family resort in upstate New York called Villa Roma. My family and cousins family's would go every summer. They had it sitting in a carpeted walkway that attached two condos. Pretty random place for it. I would wonder over to every chance i got. It was on free play. Lets just say i was easily found.

Two things I noticed right away: That gameboard has either been sent out for repair or it's a replacement. See the plastic padlock on the board. Also, where is the manual? There should have been a clear plastic pouch with the game manual in it inside the machine. By the way, that's the cleanest Electrohome G07 I've ever seen.

Know what's fun? Watching someone Who isn't good at Ms. Pac-man playing and having fun! lol,

I've repaired many cocktail tables when I was working for operators back in Chicago. I know exactly how many times I grabbed a anode and got shocked...... None. I kept my hands away from them. But I did grab a Bally Display once when it was on to pull it out. Once. We used to have problems with Pac Man and Ms Pac Man with Static problems and the games resetting during play. We got the Anti Static boards from the Distributor (Empire) and put them in the games. Well they caused more problems than they fixed so a few months later the Distributor told us to just remove them. I think the main problem with the kit was cheap edge connectors. Your game is the cleanest Cocktail Table I have seen in many a year. As you were showing it I kept thinking, show us the coin meter. Well after seeing it you definitely have a home use only game. I would repaint the black on the control panels and replace the underlay. Available on Ebay. You can also replace the Midway Joystick Centering Grommets. You should be able to get top dollar for that game.

They used to have those in Pizza Hut's when I was a kid. Sometimes it could be Galaga.

One word, WOW!

I love those cocktail style video games

woooooooow! Nice finding. Looks like million dollars :)

Now thats a top dollar machine! Wow a beauty!

That has a hefty 6x9 speaker!! I would hook up a radio and install a speaker selector switch to utilize the sound quality of that large speaker You can also wire in a relay that would automatically switch the speaker to pac man sound once the game is activated

Very cool! Yep, you don't see any like that very often. Hope you're feeling better 👍

That puppy is in pristine shape!

Who's was this Ricky Schroeder? Thanks Grandpa put it in the corner.

What a great find! Man that machine looks brand new

Nice, NEW Ms PacMan (PMMS is 'PacMan MS') I do not believe you on the anode. You got shocked by the charged capacitor that an old tube is at the anode connection. I do not believe you ever got hit by a live, operating anode supply. If you did, you would not be here, though it does serve to explain a few things. :-) I used to move 300 PacMan and about 100 Ms PacMan games a week, and about five or ten cocktails each week. PacMan, Galaga, Galaxian, Bosconian... Had mini-uprights too. I used to play them every day at lunch, especially when a new game came in, because our feedback told the distributor how many to think about buying. Those were the days...

Call that numbers matching and add 10% more to the price like they do for cars

Just WOW, I have never seen one on that condition!

One of my dream cabs!👍

!!! awesome to hear you survived...and cont. the good work.

I don't think I have ever seen a cocktail arcade cabinet without cigarette burns

Top man played at my local working men's club or hours when I was 17 awesome stuff

His sister got asteroids His brother got space invaders And he got a Ms Pacman. I was born in the wrong family. Ah I still love my family. We might not be financially sound but let me with a lot of good wisdom.

I laughed hard when you was talking about the anode. Me buying a game got put on hold for a minute but soon ill be purchasing one.

WOW that is AWESOME

I saw a Miss Pac-Man cocktail table Penn Square Mall here in Oklahoma City

Wow that thing is cherry!

Oh my Joe, I'd so pick this up if I lived around there! Wife would kill me but who the hell cares, that thing is in sweet shape!

Beautiful cab ron out of all the pcbs ive collected over the years and ive got alot , i have never came across pac man pcb and ive been looking 😁

trip down memory lane. there was one video game in my dormitory lobby. it was this. creighton in omaha. '83. there was a coin-op billiard table, and if you knocked the cue ball in the right spot on the door, you could put a credit on this thing. handy, when no change was in hand! ..two year old amusement

Wow, not very often you see one so clean! Who knew the inside was such a light color? And I see I'm not the only one that has problems with the replacement flybacks not quite reaching the screw anchor points on the chassis. All these years and they still don't make them quite the right size.

that is amazing . glad you are ok. be aware that the nasty virus can come back so rest and make sure you get vit C and D. best wishes from Manchester UK

Hope you are doing well. My state is pretty much on lockdown. Stay safe.

i miss playing ms PAC MAN at pizza hut July 1985 Menends NY

You would think someone learns the first time not to touch it anymore.

Just an observation but sounds like the speaker and audio amplifier and audio circuitry have been ran at a low volume for a long time. Alot of the cabinets I have encountered that are operated have either blown speakers or noisy or otherwise degraded audio systems. As well as heavily burned CRTs

this thing is in AMAZING condition!!!

Looks brand new....awesome !........cheers

A crt rejuvenator is a worth while investment for restoring crts in video games but they won’t fix phosphor burns

Love the old school games however the pac series was not my thing. I really do appreciate the nastagia of this perticular machine though. Thanks for sharing.

awe, you should be on the history channel

"Cut Coke off of it" lol

I wish I could remember the patterns. Pac-Man and Ms. Pacman were my favorite games. I made it pretty far into both games, but apparently I never made it anywhere near as far as you could go.

Getting shocked by the crt anode is like getting shocked by a taser

Very cool game, wishing everyone good health and stay safe.

The brother did well!

Beautiful!

I inherited Asteroids from my parents. It’s not a big problem if I get enough fiber. 😆

I'm currently trying to track down an original Ms. Pac-man Cocktail table arcade game. I've seen some refurbished ones, but for the investment, i'd prefer to keep it original. If you happen to know someone trying to get rid of one/ happen to stumble into a one/ if this owner no longer wants it (lol). I'd very much appreciate any information/ help you can offer. Thanks!

Hey Joe, just picked up a very clean/all original Ms. Pacman cocktail table for just under 1k. I think I did pretty good 👍

OMG! I just looked at the idiot who cut open the Pac-Man cabinet. So mad. I thumbs downed that one. But, thank you for respecting video game history. Keep up the great work!

I have an original tabletop ms pacman, where do we get CRT replacements and how do I tell what size I need .? I want to keep it to as close to as original as possible.

Hello like your vids love to see videos of you actually working on a circuit board and replacing parts

So clean. Awesome video. Unplayable without speed chip IMO.

You didn’t have the flu… you had the “I’m afraid of Patrick swayze”

Ms Pac-Man is my favorite:D

You're a professional installer, we will be at SEMA Thank you for the content

What kind of person would ever want to cut open a Pac-Man machine with a chainsaw? Besides people with no sanity whatsoever...

If I was going to buy an arcade game. What would be a cheeper option. Between the 3 styles. Upright ,cabaret or cocktail?

That has always been my impression as well just put a couple of quarters in the game's coin slot and have fun

Never operated? Well, the meter reading is 11144 (or 11104, kinda hard to tell from the angle).. and the board and monitor both have repair tags hanging on them. That being said, this is one of the cleanest originals I have seen and very low meter count. This game saw operation, but it has had an easy life and was well cared for, and obviously stored in a good environment for quite some time. Or it was home owned since early in its life.

👀😲👍WoW, Man, WOWW!! I would spend a fortune to have one of this!

You said this jerk off chainsaw a ms-pacman machine. It's a crime to chainsaw a arcade cabinet just to see what's inside.

What is the small yellow plastic padlock shaped thing on the top of the game board, looped around a cap?

I had a friend in El Paso TX when I was a kid that had one of these in their house in the early 90's, be funny if it was the same one.

"What is the difference between Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man....really"? -Wayne Campbell.

Ron, hoping it was just the regular flu and not our CV friend. Stay well and stay safe. BTW love the way you talk. You can have the honorary Texan seal of gab approval.

They should have built a hyperspace button into it like Asteroids.