BY BOB SOKOL, Two-BIT SCORE, AUSTIN, TX Shamelessly stolen and converted to HTML by the Basement Arcade. Visit Replays site by clicking here In our tireless search to bring the operators of America the finest in reproduction parts for Pac-Man, Two Bit Score was fortunate to discover the last new Ms. Pac-

man game.

Standing in the back

of the warehouse at

O'Connor's Distributing

in Dallas since 1982, this

Ms. Pac-man machine

has never been unboxed.

According to Bobby O,

towards the end of the

production run Midway

was offering a free Ms.

Pac-man game to distrib-

utors who would buy other new games for full price. He recollects having dozens of new Ms. Pac-mans lined up out there for awhile. This one was overlooked and pushed around the warehouse all these years. Other than some scuffs on the bottom of the box, it looked brand new.



I personally came across it several years ago on a buying trip to O'Connors. Bobby has always been gracious about letting me crawl around in their warehouse, probably because I buy all the

junk no one else wants. I tried to get him to open it then, but he

was saving it. "Not going to be worth any less next year," he'd

tell me. After pestering him for years, I finally convinced

him to open it so we could send the graphics out and have the

silkscreen artwork reproduced exactly. The results are beautiful, perfect reproduction graphics for the Monitor bezel, control panel overlay and marquee header. Three generations of OConners were on hand for the

unveiling. Pictured above from left to right are Marty

O'Connor, Bill O'Connor, technician Jim Dailey, Two Bit

Score's Bob Sokol, Bobby's son Mikey Bobby O'Connor.

(Sadly, Bill O'Connor has since passed away.) Bobby, Mikey

Marty and Jim are again pictured below with the yet-uncrated

"Ms. Pac."

Before we opened the carton there was quite a bit of specula-

tion as to what we would find inside. After nearly 20 years of