Repairing and Retro-Modding a Vintage Ms Pac Man Arcade Game

Lately I’ve been doing some arcade repair work and here’s another project I’m messing with.

Today in the club I’ve got a beat up, original Ms Pac arcade game from a local bar. The owner of the bar wants it fixed and back online for people to play. So this is not a “restoration” as much as it’s a basic “repair”. I go over what the client wants and what we’re going to do. There are also a few surprises as you’ll seeā€¦ in the next part, I end up retro-modding the game to make it even cooler.

One correction: on the Bitkit2, you do need to separately connect the power supply to the converter board. That converter board does not pull voltage from the Ms Pac harness to the Jamma side – it gets power from the molex .156″ connectors instead.


And here is Part 2:

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