Installing the 96 in 1 Multi Pac – Part 1

One of the most popular and rich arcade game kits for most collectors is Dave Widel / Mike Doyle’s 96 in 1 Multi Pac-man kit. With just a few simple changes in the chips on the main Ms. Pac-man PCB you can play 96 different games, including many different mazes for Pac-man, Ms. Pac-man, and Pac-man Plus as well as Pengo, Space Invaders, Eyes and more!

Installing the kit is really simple, but if you need some extra guidance, check out …

Arcade Links for 2008-03-16

• Game Trailers Comprehensive Video Review of Star Wars in arcades and for the consoles http://www.gametrailers.com/player/31944.html #

Arcade Links for 2008-03-15

• History of the 1942 franchise at IGN: http://tinyurl.com/359fzt #
• Heard of Williams Varkon? 90 units made, pinball / arcade hybrid. Cool. http://www.tollianweb.com/uc/Varkon/Varkon.html #
• Atari pencils? Talk about a Brand! http://tinyurl.com/36xk8a #
• The Harvey Dent Dark Knight Viral Campaign Stops in Chicago http://tinyurl.com/2j8r2l #

Is Wagner Gameworks Closing?

Wagner Gameworks (Doc Pinball) is one of two or three local arcade shops that I know of that build and service coin operated machines. He has about 10-12 pinballs in his shop at any given time, and he builds from scratch 48-1, 1000-1 and many other configuration multi-cade machines with Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac-man and Pac-man vinyl artwork.

Is Wagner Gameworks actually closing? Based on some of my past experiences with Doc Pinball, my guess is no.

Gravatars enabled for comments

Just a quick note. I was hanging out, “spending time” with Sarah before she left this morning, so I decided to look more in gravatars and get a real understanding of what they are and how they apply to blogs.

Gravatars = Globally Recognized Avatars

Hopefully most people know what an avatar is, it’s the little icon your use in comments and on forums to identify yourself. All of the wordpress feeds have been abuzz about Gravatars because WordPress 2.5 has some sort of functionality to use this service …

Arcade Links for 2008-03-14

• Came across another forum last night, for classic Atari catridges : http://tinyurl.com/3486r7 #
• Love Spyhunter? Me too. What would Spyhunter look like in the real world? – http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1454928825 #
• Maybe I forgot? RAM controls will eventually be making Food Fight gimbal joysticks? http://www.ram-controls.com/blogs.html #
• Had no concept of value for a Cinematronics War Of The Worlds #
• Joe Magiera has one in Chicago, Joe = Nice, other guy, less than humble http://tinyurl.com/3xyqop?#531e0fea5c2dcbc5 #
• Stern is making a Shrek pinball? Cool.

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Arcade Links for 2008-03-13

• Cute Self Decorating Vinyl Arcade Cabinet on Geekologie #
• http://tinyurl.com/2kuoya #
• Came across WeGame.com before, but kind of glossed over it until I read Techcrunch, http://tinyurl.com/2m9zoc #
• WeGames only records certain games, http://www.wegame.com/download/ #
• Would this make a successful targeted website for classic games? People already record videos for Twin Galaxies. Why not share them? #
• Did everyone know that IGN has a "Retro" games section? I didn’t until yesterday… #
• Here is the link for the IGN Retro section: http://retro.ign.com/

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