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Thursday, February 01, 2007

This is NOT the Graffiti Research Lab


YouTube via ni9e25.

In case you missed it there was a scare in Boston yesterday over these little devices cropping up around the city. They were mistaken for bombs. The officials brought out the bombs squads and blew them up. In actuality they were promo material for "Aqua Teen Hunger." You can read more about it on the excellent Laughing Squid.

To keep this post on topic, I'm curious if anyone knows what sound devices were used for the early arcade coin-op version of Pac Man. I always loved the richness of the sound and it was obviously before the SID. Anyone know if it was analog or digital? Also has anyone done anything new with the old devices? Seems like it would make for a good DIY project.
Posted by matrix at 2/01/2007 10:13:00 AM
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous2/1/07, 10:26 AM

    I believe Pacman used the SN76477 chip.

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  2. Anonymous2/1/07, 11:55 AM

    oh americans.....

    wait...i'm american....doh!

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  3. Unknown2/1/07, 2:54 PM

    You did a post not too long about http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2006/10/soundgin.html about a chip you could buy and software you could use to run it. I know this chip was used in a couple of early arcade games.

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  4. Anonymous2/2/07, 3:56 AM

    the music is an early aphex twin song under the name powerpill

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