Pac-Gentleman

An inspired soul has recently unearthed one of the first penny-operated entertainment automatons, the Pac-Gentleman machine.

“When this game was first released in 1880 it was so hugely popular in taverns and inns that the bank of England was forced to mint more threepenny bits to keep up with demand. The game was created by messrs Nam & Nam and Co. as a novelty pastime for the masses. Outdoing the previous top public house game of Shove Ha’penny. “



However, that is not all! Another intrepid hacker was so inspired by this discovery that he has auto-magically "down-loaded" a disk image of this historical game and encoded it in something called "M.A.M.E." Delightful!