BluePigGanon
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Right off the bat: seller isn't me. I also didn't know if it should be here or in off-topic, sorry if I called it wrong.
This guy is selling his Pac-Man arcade unit (actually Hangly-Man), and in the description he shares the story of his time with the cab and why he's selling it. I thought it was touching, worth a read...
http://stlouis.craigslist.org/ele/4192120473.html
The opening:
Later on:
This guy is selling his Pac-Man arcade unit (actually Hangly-Man), and in the description he shares the story of his time with the cab and why he's selling it. I thought it was touching, worth a read...
http://stlouis.craigslist.org/ele/4192120473.html
The opening:
This is the big one: my Pac-Man machine. As I was being born, this 1981 stand-up cabinet and thing of analog beauty was rolling off the assembly line. Removed in great shape from its one-time home in Coney Island, it's made its way across three different states, five different apartments (three of them upstairs), and emerged from numerous house parties unscathed. The spring-action click of the power button, the low hum of the CRT monitor, the crackles of warm static ... it will make the hair on your knuckles stand up the first time you fire it up. It's exactly as awesome to own as you always thought it would be. If you're still reading this, that's because you never wanted a Harley in your mid-to-late thirties: you wanted an arcade machine. And you wanted The King of classic arcade machines. You wanted a Pac-Man.
Later on:
My wife eventually moved out to the city, and things became strained for reasons that are mostly my fault. I knew I was now a completely different person, long gone from the 23 year old I used to be. We couldn't bear to split up the cats, so she insisted I take both Champ and Cricket (a recent adoption) and I felt guilty about that every single day after the divorce. It's a little funny now: the lawyer's papers actually say "Husband to receive Pac-Man Machine, wife to receive PS3...". We didn't own any property. We owned toys. We never had any kids. We had cats.