My Pac-man progress – Touchup and Mame

I bought my first Pac-man in Indianapolis in June of 2006 and I was working on some cosmetic issues on it nearly 6 months before I started blogging about arcade games. As a result, I didn’t write updates on all of the daily things I did to the cabinet, and I didn’t get to write about the decision to make the cabinet into a Mame machine.

I thought I would add some photos of the machine to date, talk a little bit about what I did and what I learned, and what is next to finalizing the never ending Mame Pac-man project.

Team America (2004)

Who’s in it

Voices: Trey Parker, Matt Stone

Should you see this movie?

I think you’ll know if you have an interest to see this movie. If you know who those names are, and what you will see when you get involved in anything they do, you go prepared and are still shocked. I will give this to them, an all puppet animated feature that tackles world politics, only they could pull it off. It was a decently

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Zoolander (2001)

Who’s in it

Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Milla Jovovich, Christine Taylor, Jon Voight, Jerry Stiller, David Duchovny

Should you see this movie?

I would say, probably not. Now, that said, I only heard terrible things about this movie from people that don’t have the same movie tastes as me, but I think Sarah and I both found this movie funny because of who we are with. We saw most of this movie in Cleveland with my college friends,

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You, Me, and Dupree (2006)

Who’s in it

Owen Wilson, Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson, Michael Douglas, Seth Rogen

Should you see this movie?

No, this one sucked more than you could imagine. It was half awkward “Meet the Parents” humor and half pity humor, and that sort of thing hardly ever works for me. I thought this movie might be worth .50 cents, but it wasn’t. Dupree is a loser friend who is a free spirit and can’t

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Raising Arizona (1987)

Who’s in it

Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman

Should you see this movie?

No. Dated and not funny but more disturbing, I hated this movie and can’t think of many people in my circle of friends that would find it funny. We saw it as a recommendation, and because there are some clips in “SceneIt”, and typically I like Cage. But this is before he became big, and it is no wonder why he didn’t get there with this movie.

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Mission Impossible 3 (2006)

Who’s in it

Tom Cruise, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Kerri Russell

Should you see this movie?

Yes, this is the best one. J.J. Abrams directed this one, the creator of LOST, but that didn’t affect my decision in any way. In this movie Cruise had moved on, which is a typical storyline, but is pulled back in and crosses the wrong guy. His new wife is threatened and he has to do a job for the bad

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Moonlight Mile (2002)

Who’s in it

Jake Gyllenhaal, Susan Sarandon, Dustin Hoffman, Ellen Pompeo

Should you see this movie?

I would say no. “As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.” (From IMDB) This tells you what the movie is about, and from there on out it wanders in self exploration that I struggled to try to feel some empathy for. Pompeo is the cute

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