PAC MAN TABLE TOP ARCADE GAME

[videosbythe5]

i have a qbert one, but this is more annoying

[hexRQP]

Heh, I have that game :)

[topitoomay]

WTF

[Tabby266]

WTF is up with the sound???

[mgabrysSF]

presented in SIDEWAYS-O-VISION. I'm going to puke now.

[Optimalillusion]

@mgabrysSF

for people who fell over on their left side after clicking the link. very considerate.

[TheDarkAngelHate]

WTH IS THAT SOUND? OH MY GOD EARS RAPE!

[themaritimeman]

Pretty cool! This isn't LED, though - it's a VFD display.

[Evilmonkey66699]

I use to have the Zaxxon one when I was a kid

[Mattcrowley2a]

My ears!

[XSC3]

The thing about technology today is yeah, you could create something like this now that really would be arcade perfect, or yeah, have an SD-card to insert and have Mame in there (but having all the buttons would be a pain, so restrict it to joystick or one button games).

[XSC3]

The thing is, the commercials I saw recently for it on YT (from back in the day, I don't recall if I ever actually saw them on TV though, just saw the mini-cabs in passing through the store window or in the box at radio shack) make it appear that they just miniturized the arcade cabs (so deceptive!). It's like an LCD game & watch except the little images are light-up in a few colors instead of black on a gray background.

[WebVMan]

I wish someone would make a machine like that only as big as a 9 inch t.v. and you could insert SD cards with game ROMs in it. YAY!!!!!!!

[wingnut4427]

got 3 of em in My closet lol Pac man Donkey Kong & galaga. :D love em all !! :D

[voltz15]

I've seen somebody make a micro arcade using his cell phone and an emulator, so I could imagine one of these being modded out to play the real thing.

[Velktron]

Too bad the processing power of the cell phone is vastly superior to the one in this tabletop machine. It's like comparing a Pentium II to an Altair 8008, assuming the tabletop arcade uses actual programmedc and not discrete/hardwired logic.

[XSC3]

I so desperately wanted one of these back in the day, but my parents said no. Of course in that time I was under the mistaken impression that it had arcade quality graphics in that little cab... boy was I naive!

[JerkbagProductions]

I thought the same thing- I think every kid did; that was back when our imaginations defined the world for us. I remember wanting one of those laser ray guns because I thought I'd actually be able to vaporize people with it.

Good times.

[dj2bklyn]

who remembers the pacman game watches I had both there on ebay for like $185.00 now I got mine for 10 bucks back in the day lol

[dj2bklyn]

who didi'nt have one of these lol

[chessarama]

I tried playing this at night, after every one else slept, but kept getting in trouble because of the loud noise it made.

[TheCheezWizz]

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I think this game may have caused me to murder someone in my childhood but I can't say I remember it.

[shalroth]

It's VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display) not LED. It's a very different technology. I don't think it would have been possible to make a display like this from LEDs back in the day...

[Velktron]

VFD games look totally different than this, check out the various VFD videos. This is a kind of LED projection technology, it uses a single bar of LEDs which is projected and rotated continuously on a screen, so it can have a bit-mapped display instead of a hardwired, fixed one. There are better looking projection LED games though, this one is kinda primitive even for these standards. It it was a solid, full-matrix LED display, it would be awfully expensive ;-)

[shalroth]

I'm sorry, but you're not correct. I actually have one of these units, and it is most definitely a VFD. It does not have a bitmapped display, it's independant characters that light up in turn.

[Velktron]

Hmm....the red color and the flickering made me think it was one of those LED projection games, but yeah, it's too underdetailed. Still, an all-red VFD is a bit unusual...

[shalroth]

It's not all red - the dots and pac-man character are yellow, and the ghosts are red. The score is green.

[Velktron]

It's probably the video's fault: it all appears a glowing red/orange/yellow which could very well be how red LED light usually renders, but after seeing another video of this same tabletop pacman there's no doubt. I'm puzzled by the difference in quality between this and the Tomy VfD games, though :-/

[JamieLovesYouToo]

i have one of these in the box. baught it off of ebay. they are nice peices that really bring my parents back.

[cne08]

I used to have one of those. I also had Fabulous Fred and Speak & Spell.

[Togepi440]

I can't wait for mine to come in on eBay! I've been wanting one of these for 10 years! This is a piece of history! :D

[bearo420]

u wud b pwned

[z0gster]

I have this.

[bisexualbuffthug]

Gotta love! Nostalgia at it's best!!

[sugarhoof]

thanks bisexualbuffthug!