Pac-Man 30th anniversary exhibition (56K alarm)

So last week I went to that Pac-Man 30th anniversary exhibition in Akihabara (3331 Arts Chiyoda) and what can I say, they had about every pacman game and system on which a pac man game could run at the start (world wide).

Since I was too late, I had only about 10 minutes time left for checking all these nice items, so I just rush through the rooms and tried to catch everything possible with my cam (sure to deliver them to posterity).
Therefore I am sorry for the not so nice done pics here and there

Flyer (one out of 6 different):


Photos (randomly):

 

Great pics, I tought the Japanese were really sensitive about taking photos or capturing any kind of footage.

"Tatsujin Corp 2010"... Awesome

 

Awesome. Thanks for all that !!! =D

Man namco should commission Takara-Tomy to make a mini desktop pac-man arcade for the aniversary.

Taito had a working space invader coin bank made that plays a working space invader.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEAoM0dgIGw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZsZKWktvXI

 

You lucky bugger. I would have loved to have seen that. How did you get away witb taking pictures? When i went to a history of video games expo, i couldn't take a single picture. Same when I went to the Rumiko Takahashi expo. I was really sad about that because they had real life model rooms from the Maison Ikkoku series and the acutal house.

Yakumo

 

I'm speechless...Pac-Man might be the only game released on every system since its debut.

Also I'm digging all those old consoles, they're almost brand new!

 

AWESOMENESS!

Thanks for sharing!

 

@feder&Yakumo: I asked the lady at the entrance about make photos and she said, everything is ok, exept the one room where a history video was running (I didn't even enter that room..lol).

@subbie: I have that SI coin bank, it is indeed a very cool bank

 

As a huge Pac-Man fanatic (it's my interest in the Pac-Man character back in the early 80's that got me into video games in the first place) I am in awe of this event. Now that's what I call an uber complete collection. I didn't even know half of those versions even existed!

Seeing the last few pics of all those Pac-Man toys really brought me back to my childhood...I had a lot of those items as a kid!

 

If I can find the time to stop hitting up yahoo auctions for arcade stuff. I would get one of those (they aren't very expensive new on yahoo). =)

:033:

 

I noticed that they had a Japanese Master System playing a PAL PacMania from Tekmagic through an adaptor in those pictures. The group that put the event together really knew their stuff!

Yakumo

 

Several of those photos are half gray for some reason. Reloading the page doesn't help.

 

Yeah, according a mate who runs a game bar in akiba and also know some of the organizers of that event, said that a lot of the stuff exhibited there is comming from private collections. Some uber otakus who know the stuff. Doesn't matter from where it comes.

 

Only thing I hate about these exhibitions is the fact they are from collections so only tend to run for a few weeks at most and generally only in one place.

I missed this as I arrived in Japan on the last day.

Quite a nice collection, although not sure why they felt the need to show lots of Atari 8 Bit computers for no good reason when one would have done. Did they mention Midway being a bunch of theiving bastards for not paying Namco any royalities on the extra Pac-Man games they did including Professor Pac-Man and Baby Pac-Man?

Surprised you didn't pull them up on have a Duo R joypad on a PC Engine

 

Great pics and great exhibition! Thanks alot!

 

I didn't spot any goods at the exhibition itself, but here are can get plenty of goods:
http://pacman.com/ja/goods/index.html

Also here are some other interessting pac-man history things:
http://pacman.com/ja/museum/index.html

 

VERY IMPRESSIVE!

And very envious!

 

lol @ the microscopic Pac-Man

+1 for the great pictures

 

That's exacly what I was wondering. Never heard of that adaptador. Does someone know if it's a official adaptor?