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Someone call Scooby!
Yesterday we wrote about the haunted Ms. Pac-Man that a Bostonian was giving away because it made his little girl cry and his wife run screaming from the house.
We, and many of you, made jokes and laughed, saying how much we wish we could have gotten a free "haunted" Ms. Pac-Man cabinet. Well, apparently, the person who did land it isn't so happy today. Was it a scam? No, says the new owner, but it was freakin' haunted!!!
Free arcade game Ms Pacman. We got this game yesterday from CL. The owner warned us this was haunted and based on what we experienced last night we don't want this in our house anymore.Game is in our backyard and under blue tarp. THE FIRST person who picks it up gets it. The person who takes it must understand this is not a joke but that this is serious.
WE WILL NOT ANSWER YOU E-MAILS OR QUESTIONS. WE DON"T WANT TO GIVE OUR ADDRESS OUT TO THOUISANDS OF STRANGERS. WE WILL PICK ONE PERSON, WE WILL CONTACT THAT PERSON ONLY. WE WILL REMOVE THE AD FROM CRASGS LIST WHEN THIS MACHINE IS GONE.
I of course emailed the guy immediately asking for both the cabinet and an interview. We have no way of knowing if this really is the guy who got the cabinet, but it still equally amuses and frightens me... mostly amuses though.
And for the love of God, if you are the one who ends up getting this haunted cabinet... take video and send it our way. It's been a day or two since I saw drunken gnomes and a I need a good supernatural laugh.
READ ENTIRE AD: free aracde game [Craigslist, thanks for all of the tips]
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Link is flagged for removal :(
Ah, to late, "Flaged for removal"...
I still want it. Mostly because I don't believe in this stuff like that. I'm open-minded at times, but not by that much. hope you get your interview and the machine Brian.
Wonder what supernatural instance made him understand its power.
Did he see the man? That man!
the post was removed from CL! do you guys have it cached somewhere, i want to read the whole thing
I'd also like to give away my House of the Dead cabinet which is currently infested with Christmas Spirit.
This needs to go in a museum or something.
Better yet, just stick it in a haunted house and kids will be like "oh, it's just a ms. pac-man machine!" But little do they know . . .
That's just awesome. :D
Anyone remember the "Love-o-Matic Grampa" episode from The Simpsons where Grampa (Abe) Simpson was killed while collecting soda cans and his ghost ended-up in a love-testing machine?
No? Well, it was hilarious.
That is all.
The new CL listing might be a joke in itself though...
I hope someone who reads kotaku scores it
I would love to pick it up. I have a truck. I'm a few hours from Boston area. I'm just..well...lazy.
(wishing it were Stargate Defender or Robotron 2084)
Holy shit! Crecente I am so hoping it works out that you get it. This thing needs to be investigated.
@MakeFragNotWar: That is the whole thing.
@sandwiches: "Tell her her rump's as big as the Queen's and twice as fragrant."
These people needs cameras.
I want videos of supernatural gaming ghosties please.
Ghosts... bullshit..
I stand by my statement from yesterday: SOMEBODY CALL AN EXORCIST!
its probably got a motherboard of Gals Panic in it.
I can't tell if the picture on the screen of the machine is from a horror flick or a porno...
@starscream1101: the ghost has struck again!
Clearly, it's trying to prevent the owners from getting rid of it. If Hollywood ghost stories taught me anything, its that ghouls/monsters/zombies/swamp thing are easily irritated by pesky kids.
I'd love to have it and slap a webcam on it 24/7.
"HAUNTED MS. PAC-MAN MACHINE!"
@ Destrado - It's the poster/cover for "Evil Dead".
Free TRAMBOPALINE!
Like I said yesterday, I want it so bad. Wish I had a way to get it...
Just install a Ghostbusters cab next to it!
Wow. They didn't even make a spited attempt, pun intended. The laziest con I've seen in a while.
That gnome video creeped me right out. RIGHT out.
I had one personal experience when I was young. Was sitting at home one day saw an old couple walking down the hall and turn and go in my bedroom. Once I got in there to see what was going on the room was empty. I didn't sleep in my room for a week.
When I say young tho I was under 10, so now-a-days I just rack it up to being a little kid. Don't necessarily believe in ghosts, but I don't rule out anything 'ghost-like' either.
Seriously tho, if it was being given away in AZ I would totally go pick it up. Ghosts or not, a deal is a deal.
@justhesh: spirited would have made more sense. You know, if I could type worth a damn.
Important question: Has anyone checked if there is a human living in the back of the cabinet?
It is probably just a joke and that is why it got flagged off. Some person saw the story and wanted to make a joke by posting that. I would have picked that up in a heartbeat if it was anywhere near me.
Ok now I HAVE to have this!! I would call Ghost Hunters and have them do a show on it. I wanna know what happened to make them turn around and give it away the next day!
BTW, I know of a comedy group that posts fake listings on Craigslist. Perhaps this is one of them...
Say... when will anyone give away a haunted Donkey Kong Arcade? Sign me up for that one!
Not sure if this question's been asked yet, but I'm seriously curious how this thing became haunted.
Usually it seems that ghosts haunt places because of a tragedy that happened at the place they are haunting, so I can only wonder what happened here. Heart attack after getting top score? Joystick to the eye? So many possibilities! Let's get ghost hunters on this!
Total idiocy. Yeah, the "next owner" is sure to be some "random guy off the street". Haunted, my ass.
I want one, to bad im living a million KMs away, here in Dubai...
I said it once and I'll say it again "who ya gonna call."
So, someone gonna call Billy Mitchell or what?
/didn't read the previous post, so apologies if anyone already made the joke/reference.
Phantom Spaceman!
I'd rather not have a haunted Ms. Pacman Machine, haunted R-Type maybe, or the ghost busters arcade game for irony but I'll pass on the Ms Pacman.
Obviously no self respecting ghost will allow itself to be caught on tape. My solution would be to put it on a webcam. Problem solved.
Theory:
Maybe it IS haunted...
in which case, it's possible that this demonic force can inhabit electronics...like computers...and the internet...
maybe the craigslist pages are all a scam after all...a scam from the CRAZY-DEMON-KILLER himself!
:-0
don't claim the machine, or Ms. Pac-man will eat your family and pose as you on craigslist too!
:-P
...hehe that was fun
@smitty1123:
Yeah, call Billy and he'll send his army of goons to check it out
Hmm, instead of putting it on craigslist again, they should probably just pour some holy water onto the motherboard. While it's plugged in.
Man, it's Pacman. Just pop a yellow pill, any will do, and start kicking some ghost ass!
Girlfriend tried to stop a man playing so they could sit down for a meal, since he'd been gaming for days without talking to her. She is electrocuted trying to unplug it to stop him playing. Now she won't let anyone play.
Is how I would write this film.
@Brian Crecente:
awesome! good to know we're not missing out on anything. i hope this CL post is for real - this is great video game drama! looking forward to any updates :)
Am I the only one who sees a simple solution here? I mean it's a Ms. Pac-Man machine... right? Why not just EAT THE GHOST?!
Well yeah it's haunted. It's got four ghosts in it... Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde.
Why was this flagged on CL, though?
give me this goddamn machine - I live in the area and would enjoy the ghosts company
I would love to have it, haunted or not.
Free arcade cabinet - Sweet
Free ghosts - Bonus
God, scam. Gullible people.
if anyone can get to the bottom of this mystery, Kotaku can!
@ Pombar- rotfl
Would be interesting if Brian scored the unit, though. Too bad it's all a scam.
It upsets me that boring cowardly people always seem to encounter all the awesome supernatural stuff, while anyone who might benefit from it and enjoy it depressingly leads a mundane, unhaunted life.
I have a haunted tortilla with the image of Jesus in it. It's double the awesomeness, soon to be on ebay!
Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them?
This just makes me want it even more. I don't believe this shit, but I want to be proven wrong. I was gonna make a joke about the man coming out of the cabinet flashing blue whenever you eat a snack, but I was beaten to the punch...many times.
This whole issue reminds me of a short horror movie from the late 80s. Was about a guy who wouldn't stop playing an arcade game where he had to get through a huge, infinite maze. The bad guy in the game was some creepy looking, white head who kept taunting him. In the end the guy breaks into the arcade hall at night to keep playing and even manages to beat it. But the white head doesn't like that at all...
So the next day one of the guy's friends is looking for him and checks by the arcade. And as he takes a close look at the screen, he realizes that the game character is his missing friend, sucked into the machine, squeeling faint cries of help....
Whatever happened to Polybius?
@Poison: Sounds like an episode of Are You Afraid Of The Dark, but that version used a pinball machine.
@mr.dandy: I see what you did there.
I hope someone here gets the thing because this story is hilarious and awesome, I wanna hear more.
I still want it though. I need it for the games room in my remote mansion in the Scottish Moors. Its been the site of murders, suicides, ancient Pict burials, everything. Everything but a haunted arcade machine.