That was the video that got us interested in this channel! Reminds us that we ought to work on the project to replace the worn button pads Y'know you missed a really good (alliteration?) by not renaming your channel 'The Maritime Ma'am' once you decided to change polarity... Just a sucker for wurds - like George Carlin
I got this original game by my grandparents for X-mas 1983 - I totally loved it and I still do! Some things from childhood will never be forgotten! ❤❤❤ • • • • 😀 LOUD is fine!!!!!! 🎉
I got this when I was a kid in the early 80's. I wanted the replica arcade cabinet version but my parents got me this thinking it was what I wanted. I ended up loving it and played it a lot. I may need to try and find one again.
I had this as a kid sometime around 82. Had a dream about finding it in a second hand store last night. Jumped on google and here I am. Thanks for the fond memories. Really nice honest video.
This brought back memories. I still have this one bought by my parents in Sweden back in the days. But it's labeled Puck Man. And its the exact same maze as Game & Times Grab Man for some reason.
I still have mine and it works just fine. It eats batteries, though. The fact that the ghosts don't get Pac Man when you first turn it on and remain idle was for demoing the game in stores. It's programmed that way on purpose. My uncle worked at Sears Roebuck when these were sold, and that's what the TOMY reps told him, anyway.
The part where you mentioned eating through batteries made me think about this Sega Handheld known as the Game Gear, that thing uses 6 AA Batteries, and it chews through them in 2 hours.
It also reminds me of another portable video game system called the Atari Lynx, my God that thing chews through 6 AA batteries in a short period of time. Good console, but not so good with batteries.
wow that really is sick, I like how the display looks. Also, how do you make your minidv footage look crisp? for some reason if I render to 720 60 and upload the youtube compression makes it look bad
You need to de-interlace it first with a program like Handbrake. I have a tutorial here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xjwrQx7Zdso.html
@@themaritimegirl Thanks a lot for the tutorial. The video looks super crisp on my computer screen, with no combing artifacts. I still have 1 question: So after encoding thru HandBrake, should I render it to *720p60* on Vegas?
@@themaritimegirl never mind, rendering to 1080p still preserves the crispness that the HandBrake configuring did. thanks a lot, maritime! My PD150's footage now looks wonderful!!
That was indeed a limitation of the NEC chip - display scanning needs to stop to allocate resources for the more complex sounds. Other Tomy games used a more powerful Hitachi chip that is able to play music without blanking the display.
Slightly unrelated, but I do not like carbon zinc batteries, particularly after they serious damaged an LED candle my brother gave me for Christmas a few years ago, so I never buy them now.