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Baby Pac-Man
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Name: Baby Pac-Man Developer: Bally Midway Year: 1982 Type: Pinball Subtype: Hybrid Pinball/Videogame Class: Wide Release
Maximum number of Players: 2
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Baby Pac-Man DescriptionBaby Pac-Man avoids ghosts and eats his way through a maze devoid of power pellets. These power-ups can only be earned by dropping into the pinball section. When a ball drains in the pinball section, play returns to the video mode.Baby Pac-Man was produced by Bally Midway in 1982. Bally Midway released 96 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Other machines made by Bally Midway during the time period Baby Pac-Man was produced include BurgerTime, Bump 'n Jump, Blue Print, Earth Friend, Kozmik Krooz'r, Lazarian, Solar Fox, Wizard Of Wor, Adventures of Robby Roto, The, and Crossroads. Baby Pac-Man - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.19 (5 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThe cabinet is solid yellow and there are stickers of Baby Pac-Man on both sides.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game IntroductionThis was the first video/pinball combo game from Bally (Granny and the Gators being the second). In the video mode, you control Baby Pac-Man in a familiar Pac-Man like maze, gobbling dots and fruit while avoiding ghosts that are very smart and very fast. The red ghost actually moves faster than Baby Pac-Man. The first thing the seasoned Pac-Man player notices is that there are no power pellets initially on the screen! The player must earn power pellets by exiting to the pinball section.In the pinball section, the player can advance the fruit that is displayed on the level, increase the speed of Baby Pac-Man as he runs through the two side exits and, most importantly, earn power pellets (one to four) by spelling "PacMan" or hitting the loop ball that resides behind the drop targets at the top of the playfield. MiscellaneousPRODUCTION: approximately 7000 units.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Baby Pac-Man CensusThere are 12,117 members of the Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,611 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,935 machines (6,840 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 273 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 84 of these machines are owned by our active Baby Pac-Man collectors. And of these, 83 are original dedicated machines, and one is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with Baby Pac-Man machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Baby Pac-Man circuit board for sale. There is 1 active member that has listed parts for this game for sale. Additional parts may be found on our message forums. Wanted - Popular - There are 13 active VAPS members currently looking for Baby Pac-Man. This game ranks a 58 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 38 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalUses a standard Bally Pinball MPU controller (used in other machines at the time) with a 6800 CPU. The other two boards are a combined lamp/solenoid driver board and the video game board (dubbed "Vidiot") that runs the video game portion. The video game board uses a 6800 for sound and a custom 9924(??) CPU chip for the video.FixesThis game is notorious for problems in communication between the video section and the pinball section. Cleaning the connector pins with Q-tips and rubbing alcohol is generally a good first attempt at a fix.Legacy
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eBay ListingsClick to search eBay for Baby Pac-Man Pinball machines and related items.Click to search eBay for Bally Midway for machines and parts. Check out the IAM/KLOV report of the hottest coin-op machine auctions, powered by Ace.com.
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