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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It wasn't Chicky Woggy?
That one is a huge yellow table top, with a friggin bad joystick killing your thumbs.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh yeah, completely forgot about that one too... Here's a link to pics:

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Vtech/ChickyWoggy.htm
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Vtech/CrazyChewy.htm
(Couple of different names...)

Still not really Pac-Man shaped, and right-handed joystick, but I have to believe we are getting closer! At the very least, if we check everything off as 'not it', we just have to see what's left... Cool
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didn't even think of a VFD display for a game as I think clock, vcr and such.

Weird how a mind can think, as VFD reminded me of digital clocks and then I thought about those cool digital flip number clocks. And then I was thinking about other "cool" clocks and their interesting clockworks and such that make sounds and/or things move Laughing

Hey, the dog woke me from a nap about 20 minutes ago Shocked
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rik wrote:
GameHoarder wrote:
Next question is tracking down the display screen type.

Was it LED or LCD. If LED there are few to none, if LCD there are many.

Your "blue walls" comment makes me think it was a LCD game. As LED games are few and are lacking on COLOR.


I'm thinking it was VFD, not LCD or LED. I'm not even sure how you'd do LED walls... But 'Blue walls' make it sound like a VFD game. Entex Pac-Man, any of the Hanzawa's, Gakken Puck Monster, even Tomy's Pac-Man all had blue walls...

But 'wide and short' seems to narrow it down to Tomy... Here's a close-up of Tomy's display, can you remember if it looked anything like this?


There's also a small handheld LCD game with the exact same display...
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Unknown/GrabMan.htm

These are the only ones I can think of that have a horizontal screen layout (vs an arcade-style vertical one). (But I might be forgetting something...)

It's very possible someone had this game and wanted to make it use a joystick like the arcade game, and built something custom... Or maybe it's just something we aren't thinking of for some reason... Cool

Pretending your memory could just be throwing you off, look at these two:
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Misc/EurosonicPuckiMonsters.htm
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Misc/GoliathLuckyPucky.htm

I completely forgot about these two odd-ball Pac-Man clones. They don't really fit your description (other than joystick controlled), but the Goliath one is round, so you know, maybe it's close... Rolling Eyes


That display is VERY familiar, I don't remember what colour Pac and the ghosts were though.

That Goliath one looks awesome must add that to my ebay saved seaches even though it's not the one im looking for Smile

Im beginning to think maybe tomy made a special edition machine possibly exclusive to a particular chain of stores
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