Warning: The following post contains vast evidence of my “geekdom.” This post is not for the weak of mind, those who are un-awesome or people who hate old video games. Reader discretion is advised.

pacman defeatSo I have always wanted to buy some arcade games.  And one of my all time favorites is Pac-Man. He did get jealous when he found out the Ms. Pac-Man and I had something going on the side (I may have told my wife that Ms. Pac-Man was my first love). But we have made our peace and now I am happy to announce that Pac-Man has come to live at my house.

Craigslist is quite simply an awesome place. I called originally about a Ms. Pac for $300 in decent condition and by the time I got there he had sold it. However, there was a un-working Pac-Man console that I got for the bargain price of $100. My seller was also kind enough to throw in a new Pac-Man Controller, a Ms. Pac controller, a Pac man plus marquee and a Ms. Pac Marquee, in addition to letting me keep the old Pac controller board.

So my restoration project has begun. I had the board repair and a 4-in-1 mod (that way Mr. & Ms Pac could be together again) done by a very cool guy named Peter from New Hampshire. He was awesome to work with and took lots of time to help me understand the arcade world a bit better.  I would love to learn to do it myself but I figured I needed to crawl before I walked… or something like that. It needs some minor repair and cosmetic work still, but that should be less than $50 total. I bought new molding and leg levelers from arcadeshop.com.  I also bought Pac-Man marquee off of eBay though it’s no where near as cool as Jason Cipriano’s signed Pac-Man Merquee, I suppose we can get everything we want.

Either way, here is a picture of my baby, on the day we brought it home. The garage is much cleaner now so I can walk to the game without inflicting bodily harm upon myself.

PACMAN CONSOLE

And for those of you not awesome enough to have a Pac-Man console to play at will I give you the of flash version of Pac-Man to play online.