Working on small things, monitor ID and photos of Dig Dug

Last night I did some things with the game.

I took out the Land Sea and Air board that was in the game (Taito game, not Atari unfortunately), which meant taking off a little block of wood as well. I took the Dig Dub PCB I had out to the garage to compare connectors, and it doesn’t look like it is exactly the same. There was an auction that ended today for an uncut Dig Dug harness, and I won so I have it just in case I need

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I may get Rob’s information who owns the Mr. Do!

Just when I thought I was going to have to start over, my trail has picked up again. I emailed Gary one more time to see if he had found Rob’s information (Another guy in MA who owned this Mr. Do) and let him know about Walt and how things didn’t work out. He was nice enough to email me back last night with Rob’s information, and to let me know that he had already told him that I was going to email. So, back at it, and …

Possible trade involving Dig Dug?

Got back out into the garage tonight to do some quick things with the Dig Dug. There might be some interest in a trade with the machine, so I took the bezel out (Now that the weather is going to be permanently warm) and put it in, and clipped some wires to the extra buttons that were on the Land Sea and Air control panel, installed a black button where one was missing, and placed the new control panel on the machine. I then took some photos of

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Starting to vectorize Jr. Pac-man control panel overlay

This week Richard sent me a close up photo of the original control panel overlay by itself. Tonight I started tracing it, and got through about 50% of it I believe. I imagine it will be about two weeks before I am able to finish it up. The Jr. Pac-man’s are always tough, the detail in his shoes takes awhile. It should be another cool piece to add to my collection when finished, the final idea being I would have all of the artwork for making …

Mappy on ebay didn’t sell

The Mappy auction did end yesterday without any bidders. I emailed the owners yet again, asking to work something out. This time I told them that I could barter my services with them so they could get the total worth out of the machine according to their minimum bid on ebay on this time.

I almost think they aren’t getting the emails, but they should with the subject line being about ebay, and they have been sellers for awhile. I did some research today to find out how

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Making an offer on the black sided Jr. Pac-man

The Mappy auction ends today in less than three hours. I don’t think it will sell, there are no bidders, but we shall see.

I emailed the guy I met over Christmas with an offer for his original Jr. Pac-man in Ohio. It doesn’t have the sideart, is a touch beat up, and the sides and marquee area are painted solid black. It would be a job to get that off, it is a flat finish paint. I offered him $450 for it. Probably more than

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Lower Professor Pac-man cpanel artwork

Tonight I was procrastinating on other things that I needed to do, so I decided I would just finished this piece of artwork for the Professor Pac-man. I don’t know what you call this exactly, it’s the lower Professor Pac-man overlay, or underlay, basically the artwork right below the control panel. The Professor was all that was left with some miscellaneous pieces of the tables and chairs. You can see a small image of the finished artwork below.

I kind …