Normally I wouldn’t think twice about accepting a free arcade cabinet, but after I read this I had to think twice. I don’t totally believe in the whole ghost thing, but why else would someone give something like this away? Read on for the full story….
[Aracde Controls via Kotaku]
I sent a message to see if anyone had claimed it [Ms Pac Man cabinet] and if they had any pics. I got a response back saying that it was available but no pictures. I emailed back asking why they where getting rid of it for free. Here is the response I got.
“When I bought this machine the previous owner told me it was haunted. I laughed, didn’t believe him, because I didn’t believe in that sort of thing.Got a bad feeling the day it was delivered. Game started on its own in the middle of the night several times, had a tech service the machine three times (very pricy housecalls), but he couldn’t find the problem.
Three-year old daughter started talking about the “man in the video machine”, didn’t think much of it, then my wife saw a dark figure move across the basement and into the machine. She ran out of the house, would not return until the machine was out of the house. I moved it to my business garage (two miles away), and several times I have opened the garage to find tools missing or scattered, things tipped over.
This is why I am giving away a $1000 machine for free.”
this is phony.
#1. If you wanted to get rid of it, you could just THROW IT AWAY
#2. Who’d give this cursed machine to another soon to be victim, just JUNK it
I have a ms.pacman game machine. I have seen some shows that show ghosts, but not a ms.pacman arcade machine. If he really said that the ms.pacman was hunted, it couldn’t be hunted!!!! How could it be hunted!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you saw a ghost go into the ms.pacman machine, you must of saw things. And if it turned on at night, it might of been the power turned it on!!!!!!!!!!! There is no ghost in a ms.pacman game machine. Sell it in a rummage sale. Don’t tell anyone that it is hunted. sell it for a good price! And there is no such thing as ghosts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
who would leave it in the public world though? then it could do even worse things, no limit where it could go.
i would take it
i would take it, gut it, and MAME it lol
i will take it. would keep the wife out of my garage. and you could call ghost hunters for it. awesome.
If anybody has any information regarding this game and/or its history, please let us know!
id take it and turn it into a mame machine
i would take it pass it right here and ill promise to nail a crucifix to it
It could just be the kind of thing where people are told somewhere or something is haunted so their mind starts playing tricks on them. You could always just call a priest or something if you believe in that stuff.
Well now, I aint afraid of no ghost!
Well, except for Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde!
I’d love this. It’d be well cool. Imagine some phatom shadow beating your High Scores and moving furniture!
i’ll take it i seen worse
I’d be concerned about any Pac cabinet that DIDN’T contain ghosts….
This is one I’d file under “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see”. I’m sorry, but this is just another urban legend. Just because it’s interesting, doesn’t mean it’s true. I’d love to be proven wrong, though. If anyone can produce this “haunted” machine, then let me know.
– Mike
Has it occurred to any of you that it IS haunted? And he trying to warn the potential buyers, Just doesn’t want it thrown away?
Well, yeah, of course a Pac-Man machine has ghosts in it. Four of them, to be exact!!! 😉
Also as a guy who’s super into 80s arcade games and also somewhat interested in the paranormal do you know of any other stories regarding possessed arcade machines? And NOT polybius!! I mean actual, plausible stories. No urban legends that turned out to be fake.