Different Jr. Pac-man Control Panel Overlays

I got another photo today from Richard of three different version of the Jr. Pac-man control panel overlay that was originally produced. There are three here, one that was used on the Ms. Pac-man, Pac-man machines, one for the dedicated machines, and one for the Super Pac-man conversions. Check out the photo for examples of each.

Finished Professor Pac-man control panel vector artwork

Finished up the control panel overlay tonight. I took the font I chose, and pretty much used it with some small modifications. I turned all of the characters into outlines, and modified the letter” “s”, which seemed to be the most drastically different character. That, and the periods in the font were squares, and on the overlay they were circles. By repeating both of those characters I kept some uniformity.

I also redid the rounded pink borders, and wasn’t sure

…

Trimming down the new Ms. Pac-man back door.

Today I went over to Kenny’s and he helped me cut down the back door to the Pac-man that I have in the garage to fit in my Ms. Pac-man.The backdoor I had was so broken and waterdamaged that there was no salvaging it. I still don’t know what to do with the Mr. Pac, and since it is already painted a very similar blue, I thought it only made sense. We got the hole drilled in the back for the lock at approximately the same size, I haven’t

…

Jr. Pac-man overlay reproduction scan

As a sidebar, here is the scanned image of the Jr. Pac-man control panel overlay reproduction that I got in the mail with my sample. Pretty cool, Richard did a really good job in finding someone to make it, and picking the materials (poly carbonate and sealer) to make it feel

Testing Ms. Pac-man Power Supply

Today Kenny came over to work on all of the machines, including the Ms. Pac. We are going to start with testing the transformer, and probably all of the fuses.

We did determine that the marquee light is getting power, so the bulb, which doesn’t come on, is probably burned out.

He also figured out that the line coming off the power supply, an orange line that eventually ran to the PCB and powers that, seems to have a short. It was only outputting less than a volt, like .3. …

Using Pantone book to match Jr. Pac-man colors

Next door to my work is a print shop, so in the morning I went over there with my sample that Richard sent to try to do some color matching. It took a little time, but I feel really confident that I matched the yellow and the pink really close. The blue was pretty hard, and I didn’t find anything that was as exact as I would have liked.

These are the coated spot Pantone colors that I found were exact matches, or as I mentioned, best matches that I …

Got NOS strip of Jr. Pac-man artwork in mail

In the mail today I got my package. Inside I found the strip from the bottom of the NOS Jr. Pac-man kickplate that Richard had promised, lustrous and colorful like it was brand new. He also sent me some sort of Control Panel overlay, possibly from a Jr. Pac-man conversion? I have seen them mostly on the Pac-man cabinet conversion, it only goes on top and doesn’t curve around the beveled edge of the whole cpanel, but it is really freaking sweet either way. I am …