Gold Label · 5.5 in tall

Pac-Man 40th Anniversary Mini Arcade GameRetro arcade machine for the home

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Pac-Man in the 40th Anniversary Gold Label housing, with a brighter panel and room for a second player.

$21.52~~$24.69~~set at checkout in our listing

The collector's shelf piece on our floor, and small enough to still get played.

Series: Gold Label
Cabinet height: 5.5 in
Screen: 2 in full colour
Control: Joystick
Games on board: 1
Players: One
Power: Battery powered

Standing at this cabinet

The Pac-Man 40th Anniversary Mini Arcade Game is a retro arcade machine for the home: a Gold Label pocket arcade, 5.5 in tall, with a 2 in screen, and one player at the stick.

The Gold Label housing is the one collectors ask for. Same maze, same four ghosts, same eighties sound set, but the shell carries the 40th Anniversary finish and the screen runs brighter than our standard mini — the dots stay visible under a window instead of washing out.

Two players take the cabinet in turns on one screen, which is how the arcade handled it too: your run, then theirs, then the score board settles it. The joystick is the real thing, so the corner cuts that saved you in 1980 still save you here.

What we built in

Pac-Man on its original board, in the 40th Anniversary Gold Label housing.
Brighter full colour panel than our standard mini, so the maze reads in daylight.
Two-player scoring on one cabinet, taken in turns the way the arcade ran it.
Joystick control with eighties graphics and sound kept intact.

A collector's edition retro arcade machine for the home

This is the Gold Label build: a 5.5-inch Pac-Man cabinet made for the fortieth anniversary of the 1980 board, with gold trim on the marquee and bezel and a brighter panel than the standard handheld. It is the edition people buy to put on a shelf and then play anyway. If you want one object that says arcade on a desk without taking a desk, this is the machine to look at first in our collection.

What the anniversary build changes

The board is the licensed original Pac-Man, unchanged, because changing it would be the wrong kind of anniversary. What changed is the housing: a brighter colour screen, gold detailing, a heavier feeling shell and a stick anchored to the chassis rather than the face plate. It takes two AA cells rather than three, which is why it is a touch smaller than the 6-inch handhelds and still has the same authentic maze on it.

On a shelf, in a pocket, as a present

At 5.5 inches it sits between an ornament and a game, which makes it the easiest present in the range to judge: anybody with a desk has room for it, and the gold marquee reads as a gift rather than a gadget. There is no plug, no coin-operation and no setup beyond the battery door. The attract loop starts as soon as the cells are in, and the first maze is about four seconds after that.

Who this mini arcade game is for

This is the gold-label edition, made for the fortieth year of the game, and it is the one people buy as an object as much as a machine. Five and a half inches of arcade cabinet, a real joystick, an official licensed board, three AA cells and no coin-operation of any kind. The finish is the difference: a gold marquee and gold side art against the standard black, which is why it ends up on a shelf in a living room rather than in a drawer. The game underneath is the original 1980 arcade release at its original difficulty, so the action is the timeless one, not a modern edition with the curve flattened. It is the gift we get asked about most often, because it looks like a collectible and plays like the real thing, and it needs no space, no plug and no permission from anyone.

How it fits across our collection

The handheld row is where our collection starts, and it carries Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Tetris and the WWE fighters alongside this anniversary edition. From there the same cabinet scales up: 16 inches for a counter or a home bar, 37.5 inches free standing for a bedroom, 61 inches for a full size floor machine in a dedicated game room. One small business, licensed titles only, no custom orders and no pinball, which is how the quality of the stick and the buttons stays the same across every size we build. Nothing takes a quarter, so play is free and endless on all of them. If you are deciding between heights, the honest rule is that the room picks the height and the board picks the machine, in that order.

What players said about this cabinet

Good quality for the price
These have lasted about 2 years now without issue or needing batteries replaced (one is now unusable due to faulty battery springs). The games are fun to play and fun for children of all ages (whether they understand how to play the game or not)
Tate ChapmanSeptember 14, 2026Pac-Man 40th Anniversary Mini Arcade Game

Fun
Me and my child play this. Its so fun and easy to use once you get a hng of the joystick.
Alana DurhamMay 27, 2026Pac-Man 40th Anniversary Mini Arcade Game

Cute,fun size
Fun game except know is so small and very hard to hold onto to controll
FloridashellzSeptember 5, 2024Pac-Man 40th Anniversary Mini Arcade Game

So dang cute!
My son (3yo) and I absolutely love this, we both in love with pac man, and this was a perfect Christmas gift. He uses it for his paw patrol to fake play a lot, only iffy thing I would say as far as actually playing it- is how the ghost move- they blink on and off to move like you’d expect but one second they aren’t even near you and within one quick blink your dead- frustrating for myself- yet my brother in law seems to have no issues. Id say it’s a great item for everyone, but if your competitive- get ready to battle some ghost that you truly don’t see coming.
Kayla DarlingJanuary 15, 2023Pac-Man 40th Anniversary Mini Arcade Game