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Pac-Man Electronic Game
Model number 2390. Serial number not clear, possibly 77324A. "Pac-Man by Midway" printed at top of game housing. "Copyright Midway 1980" and "Copyright 1981 Coleco Industries, Inc." printed at top of screen. Black plastic housing, made to look like a desktop version of a full size video arcade game, has yellow, red, and blue printing and graphics. Two white plastic control switches for player 1 and player 2. Black plastic on-off switch. Four Perma Power C-Cell battery substitutes in the battery compartment. Cable is attached with a Perma Power snap to one of the battery substitutes in the battery compartment on the bottom of the unit. Adapter jack and transformer (also called a battery eliminator) attached to the cable. Three game options available to the players: Pac-Man, Head to Head Pac-Man, and Eat and Run. Instructions for all three games on the bottom of the unit. See also the record for the Galaxian electronic game at 2002.62.2. Pac-Man and Galaxian were two of the most popular of the many electronic games in the early 1980s, both in the video arcades and in the desktop versions.