The Pac-Man cabinet is in pretty good shape.

It looks like it won’t need any major work as there are no missing chunks of wood or anything cool like that. First step is to see what’s under that nasty black paint. Upon close inspection, the answer is pretty obvious – nasty BLUE paint! Much to the disgust of my neighbors, I start stripping with the garage door open. Under the black and blue, some coolness starts to emerge:

Once I start seeing the letters, I have a very hard time trying to strip in an orderly fashion (like I used to back in my Chippendale days). I can’t fight the urge to keep going at the letters. At the end of the day, we officially have a pac-man cabinet: