Anyone heard of this? Popeye Pac-man arcade

[navy09]

At the local flea market is a stand up arcade called Popeye Pac-man. They have it plugged in and it is simply a poor hack of Pac-man with Popeye's head in place of Pac-man; I believe it was from 1982. What a strange combination and I have to tell you it does not play or look as good as the real deal. Just curious if anyone has ever seen this before.

[4ever2600]

I used to play that game as a kid, I'm 37 years old... That is an obscure hack... I'd love to play that even in MAME, but I have never seen the rom dump... What state do you live? I would LOVE to own that...

 

At the local flea market is a stand up arcade called Popeye Pac-man. They have it plugged in and it is simply a poor hack of Pac-man with Popeye's head in place of Pac-man; I believe it was from 1982. What a strange combination and I have to tell you it does not play or look as good as the real deal. Just curious if anyone has ever seen this before.

[Kripto]

Wow. I remember this hack as well! Can't remember if I saw it in New York or over in Europe. A screenshot would be super-cool.

[Deteacher]

I remember seeing that hack in a huge arcade in Old Orchard Beach, ME when I was a wee little lad. They had a huge line of Pac Man machines...each one was a different version. Popeye Pac Man was among them.

[xZanU]

I remember this one two, I think they had it at the mall Arcade room. They also had Garbage Man (Same as pacman but with garbage).

[+SpiceWare]

Found a graphic ROM on Lawnmowerman's Pac-man Website. Swapped it out in the puckman set and it should this:

 

I was expecting to see spinach cans for the power pellets.

[moycon]

I remember that one as well, except I swear the colors were different and the maze would disappear. Maybe the one I saw was Pac-Man + with popeye head.

[+SpiceWare]

it's possibly the color PROMS should be changed too, but they didn't include one in download.

[Kripto]

Yeah, I remember the one I played as being based on Pac Man Plus most likely. It's hard to say as that my neighborhood was flooded with all manner of bootleg Pac-hacks at the time.

[navy09]

I used to play that game as a kid, I'm 37 years old... That is an obscure hack... I'd love to play that even in MAME, but I have never seen the rom dump... What state do you live? I would LOVE to own that...

 

At the local flea market is a stand up arcade called Popeye Pac-man. They have it plugged in and it is simply a poor hack of Pac-man with Popeye's head in place of Pac-man; I believe it was from 1982. What a strange combination and I have to tell you it does not play or look as good as the real deal. Just curious if anyone has ever seen this before.

 

 

Been away for a few days, I've been especially busy as of late. I'm from VA and the flea market is in Norfolk. I went back to the flea market and while I'm not totally positive I believe the arcade price was jacked up 75 dollars. I was nearly certain the price last week was 375, but today I see it is 450. Not cheap for a flea market find, though being at a flea market I would bet you could work the price down. I took some pictures for anyone interested and have the phone number of the dealer, Jerry's Electronics, if you want to pm me. I guess I'm not so stealthy as I quickly drew the evil eye from several vendors as soon I took out my camera to take pictures of the arcade and a couple other things I was interested in. They probably thought I was a cop tracing stolen goods from the looks I received. I'm currently trying to add the pictures, but I may need a little help. I tried to add the attachment, but nothing uploaded.....

[Robbbert]

That game has been in Misfitmame for years... which means the roms are easily available.

[mbd30]

They should have replaced the monsters with multi-colored Brutus's!

[pacgreg]

At the local flea market is a stand up arcade called Popeye Pac-man. They have it plugged in and it is simply a poor hack of Pac-man with Popeye's head in place of Pac-man; I believe it was from 1982. What a strange combination and I have to tell you it does not play or look as good as the real deal. Just curious if anyone has ever seen this before.

I ve seen that, weirdest hack ever

[FlightSuit]

I used to play that game in the early-to-mid 1980s at Pacifica Home Video, which was located in Crespi Center here in Pacifica, CA. It had the disappearing maze, and when I asked one of the owners about it, she claimed the game was "not bootleg."

 

Anyway, I'm pretty sure this game is included in MacPacMAME, though I can't verify that, 'cause MacPacMAME won't run on an Intel Mac.

[rxd]

That game has been in Misfitmame for years... which means the roms are easily available.

 

Yea, I've played it in Misfitmame several times. Great emulator....

[Bakasama]

I used to play that game in the early-to-mid 1980s at Pacifica Home Video, which was located in Crespi Center here in Pacifica, CA. It had the disappearing maze, and when I asked one of the owners about it, she claimed the game was "not bootleg."

 

Anyway, I'm pretty sure this game is included in MacPacMAME, though I can't verify that, 'cause MacPacMAME won't run on an Intel Mac.

 

You got an Intel Mac? The only MAME that works on Intel Mac is MAME OS X. However, there isn't a MAME OS X that can play that by default. There is a way to play most Pac mac hacks. You just replace certain ROMs in the zip file and you'll get some CRC errors but it works.

[frogstar_robot]

You got an Intel Mac? The only MAME that works on Intel Mac is MAME OS X. However, there isn't a MAME OS X that can play that by default. There is a way to play most Pac mac hacks. You just replace certain ROMs in the zip file and you'll get some CRC errors but it works.

 

This doesn't work?

 

http://sdlmame.parodius.com/

[Bakasama]

You got an Intel Mac? The only MAME that works on Intel Mac is MAME OS X. However, there isn't a MAME OS X that can play that by default. There is a way to play most Pac mac hacks. You just replace certain ROMs in the zip file and you'll get some CRC errors but it works.

 

This doesn't work?

 

http://sdlmame.parodius.com/

 

Well, I've never figured out how to use and more importantly, I don't have a clue how to compile it.

[FlightSuit]

Actually, MacMame works just fine on my Intel Mac. I run Mame OS X because with certain games, like Donkey Kong, MacMame doesn't emulate all of the sound effects. I keep MacMame around, however, 'cause there are tons of older ROMs that work just fine on MacMame, but won't play nicely with Mame OS X unless you go hunting all over Hell and creation for some obscure, missing part of the parent ROM set. It's kind of frustrating.

[Bakasama]

Actually, MacMame works just fine on my Intel Mac. I run Mame OS X because with certain games, like Donkey Kong, MacMame doesn't emulate all of the sound effects. I keep MacMame around, however, 'cause there are tons of older ROMs that work just fine on MacMame, but won't play nicely with Mame OS X unless you go hunting all over Hell and creation for some obscure, missing part of the parent ROM set. It's kind of frustrating.

 

Oh think I know why some of the sound FX for Donkey Kong aren't working on MacMAME. You might need sound samples for that. They're sound files for walking and climbing the ladders. Some users have complained that emulated sounds don't sound as great as the sound samples. So some of them use keep using the old MAMEs just to play Donkey Kong with sound samples.

 

I do roll my own MacMAMEs just so I can use MisfitMAME games. I believe I did roll a MacMAME with hacked Bagman months ago. I would roll my own MAME OS X but I just can't. I think it's because I'm using Tiger and rolling MAME OS X seems to need Leopard.

[FlightSuit]

What is this "rolling" you refer to? Are you modifying the software in some way?

[Bakasama]

Yes, I making my own MacMAMEs with mods to them.