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Hallmark's Pac-Man Cab Aquired


On 09/16/2019 at 01:22 PM by KnightDriver

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Thanks to my friend Mark, I now have three of the four arcade cabinet Christmas tree ornaments Hallmark has made. I'm only missing the Galaga one, which, is too expensive to get right now, but one day. Here's some pics of Pac-Man. I want to add it to a diorama I'm thinking about making.

pac-man ornament

Front view. When a button on the control deck is pressed, the marque banner (there's a real term for the top part of the cabinet, but I don't know it) lights up and sounds from the game play. The detail is wonderful on this tiny replica. 

Pac-Man side view

This shows the side art (there's another term for this I don't know) - very authentic, I believe. 

I looked at the three cabinets I have now, Defender, Donkey Kong and Pac-Man and noticed they are very different in size and shape. It's interesting how each company, Williams, Nintendo and Midway chose their design. This wasn't always very noticible in the dark arcades I used to go to. 

I have a plan to make a diorama out of these, and any new, cabinets. By chance I surrounded them with my Disney Infinity Avengers figures, which are close to the same scale. It looks like cosplayers at an arcade. I'm loving the scene and want to expand upon it. I'm thinking, eventually to surround that with a model train set and call it something like Marvel's Arcade Town. 

Avenger's Arcade

This pic shows before I got the Pac-Man cab, which I put right behind Captain America. I also used a comic book effect on my phone for this Twitter pic I did a few weeks ago. I'll have to expand to a larger area soon and put Black Widow and Hawkeye in there too. 


 

Comments

Matt Snee Staff Writer

09/17/2019 at 09:21 AM

Be careful, Hulk will totally break those arcade machines when he gets frustrated with the difficulty! Tongue Out

KnightDriver

09/17/2019 at 09:44 AM

I'll need to keep a lot of spare parts around. Or maybe I should change some dip switches to make the games easier for him. Yeah, that's a good idea. 

Cary Woodham

09/17/2019 at 10:11 AM

You know, I know a lot about arcade cabinets, owning some and being to arcade auctions and all.  And as far as I know, 'marquee' and 'side art' are the correct terms for those things.

KnightDriver

09/17/2019 at 09:32 PM

I came across those and some other terms once reading about cabinets, but I didn't feel like looking them up again. To actually do a good journalistic job on something takes a lot of research and fact checking, as you probably know. I'm not up to it right now. 

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