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Waka-Waka! It's the Casio Pac-Man Digital Calculator Watch!
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May 29, 2025
Hard to believe, but Pac-Man has been around for 45 years. Tech expert Dave Taylor played it when first released and has been a ❤️ fan every since, so when Casio released a version of its venerable Digital Calculator Watch in partnership with Namco Bandai, it was a no brainer to get one to review! This offers a detailed, hands-on demo of the Casio Pac-Man Digital Calculator Watch model CA53WPC-1B, including all specs. Check it out at: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.CA-53WPC-1B/ Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ 0:00 Introduction 1:22 Hands-On Demo 2:22 Turning Off The Beep 3:20 Specs and Features 5:04 Water and Battery 5:59 Examining The Box 8:29 Pricing and Conclusions #casio #pacman #bandai #pacmanwatch #retrowatch #vintagewatch #calculatorwatch #askdavetaylor
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so much Nostalgia with this Casio
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Pac-Man digital calculator watch let's
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check it
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[Music]
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out Dave Taylor here and I have to admit
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I grew up in the sort of golden era of
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video games and one of my absolute
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favorites has always been Pacman and
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then Miz Pac-Man and then all the other
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variations but still that little yellow
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guy chomping on the dots and trying to
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avoid the ghosts there was just
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something about that game that just
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pulled me in then I think Tetris came
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along and Tetris absorbed a lot of my
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energies too but Pac-Man classic retro
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video game it's available on every darn
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platform who doesn't love this game
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enter this this is an official licensed
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Casio Pac-Man calculator digital watch
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and it is really fun as you can see in
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the closeup it is a calculator watch
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going way back decades ago to like the
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beginning of the digital watch era but
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in addition to that it also has this
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great Pac-Man theming so let's have a
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look right now and then I'll come back
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and I'll talk about all the specs but
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let's jump in for a demo let's start out
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looking at the different modes and
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that's easily done by pushing this
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little button on the side so there's
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calculator
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[Music]
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alarm dual
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time
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stopwatch and we're back to time now
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let's go into calculator and going to
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use a pen cuz my fingers are a bit big
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so we're going to say what is an 18% tip
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for an $88 bill so we're going to push
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88 and then
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times and then point what did we say 18%
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so
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18 equals there you go so it actually
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makes it really pretty easy to work with
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if you have smaller fingers or are very
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good at pushing buttons now in addition
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to this button here there's another
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button that you can't see at this angle
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but here's a view of the side the this
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hidden button actually let you turn on
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and off the beep so if I push
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it now when I push
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buttons there's no beep and you can
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see takes a little practice to get used
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to this so
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plus
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equals so there we go and then when
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we're ready to go to the next mode we
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just simply push that that clears it
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then we can go and step through modes to
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get back to where we want and the easy
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way to remember is that DT means it's
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dual
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time and then the one where it tells you
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the day actually is the current time and
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that's it so let's let me jump back on
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camera tell me that's not a really fun
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watch and yes of course all of this
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functionality you have on your
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smartphone and you could certainly get
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better versions of it and probably a
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game you could play on your Smartwatch
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but did you have that Smartwatch when
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you were a kid probably not so that's
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what makes this so much fun and of
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course it's also casio's 50th
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anniversary and Pac-Man's 45th
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anniversary can't believe Pac-Man's that
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old not one wrinkle very impressive
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Pac-Man of course is licensed from Namco
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Bandai entertainment and I do as I said
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earlier remember when it first came out
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and we all stood around saying what wow
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that's like so colorful it's so amazing
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yes video and computer games have come a
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long long way still back to the watch so
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it is a bio resin or biobased resin and
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the packaging going to come back to that
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in a second as you saw the functionality
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it has dual time it has alarm including
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hourly alarm if you want it that
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stopwatch is accurate to a 100th of a
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second assuming you can push it at the
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right time the calendar goes to 2099 and
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then who knows what happens maybe this
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turns into a Pac-Man game I don't know
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I'm not going to necessarily hang around
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that long to find out but it's also
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accurate to plus or minus 15 seconds a
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month so probably every 6 months or so
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you might find you need to adjust it up
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or down a minute it's fairly easy to do
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that again you might find that you're
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using a pen CU you have to push not only
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the button on the Outer Edge but the one
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that's recessed to which person I find a
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little hard to do but if it's once in a
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blue moon I can handle it and it is
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water resistant and the battery it uses
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a CF 2016 there's already one installed
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when you buy the watch and that's said
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to last for 5 years so you can count on
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one hand how many batteries you'd need
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till you run out of calendar right well
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maybe two
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hands and dimensions wise 43.2 mm by
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34.4 mm by 8 2 mm it is super light it
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is super thin you can use a band of 125
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to 180 mm but this is a pretty nice
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little band and you can see here how the
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back clasp works and the clasp says
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Casio on it um so the Pac-Man theming
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also is on the back you can see on this
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picture on the back it's pretty cool
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actually but I really want to also show
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you the packaging before we get there
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I'll tell you that it comes with the
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typical paperwork for Casio so Casio
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uses a small number of modules for a
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larger number of styles and this module
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for the calculator watch is either
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module 437 or 438 or possibly 3208 all
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three of them have the same basic
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functionality and then there's a warning
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for people who live in California
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there's a warranty card and there's a
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very interesting battery list I've never
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seen this before a Cassio watch but it
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basically shows you all the different
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batteries that a watch could use it
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doesn't even highlight which one this
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uses but all the possible batteries and
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it shows you the let's see the nominal
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voltage and stuff so it's kind of an
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interesting reference sheet not sure why
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it's in the box but let's look at this
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box so you get it and it comes in a box
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like this the box is intended to look
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like a console game and then when you
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open it up it looks like this of course
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the watch would be in the center part
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like that but it looks kind of like a
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console it's actually really fun
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packaging and just as a tip the part
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that says Pac-Man fold forward and then
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you can lift these pieces out because
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underneath everything is where you find
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all this paperwork most of that not a
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big deal but this you'll want to either
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go and read through or you can find it
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online in fact I'll put a link in my
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description so you can see a digital
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copy of this module manual cuz it is
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helpful to know how to for example set
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the correct time because you don't want
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to have it on the wrong time although
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who knows maybe you're so used to using
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your phone for your time that this would
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just be sort of a I don't know a fashion
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statement but however you slice it I
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think they've done a fantastic job with
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this I think it's a great partnership
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between CIO and Namco Bandai and I just
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really like it and my kids really like
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it too cuz I'll tell you this sort of
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vintage gear is very not just nostalgic
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but very stylish and fashionable too so
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that's what I got this is a watch
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definitely worth learning more about and
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then wearing it while you're playing
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Pac-Man even if it's just something
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you've never played before it's still
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absolutely worth learning
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I am going to ask you to subscribe to my
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channel click or tap on that subscribe
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found this of value of course I hope you
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did this is the Casio Pac-Man digital
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calculator watch ca53 WPC 1B yeah
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actually means something but I don't
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know what it means and it is
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79.95 at cio.com so definitely if you're
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a fan of Pac-Man or you have someone in
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your family who loves the game this is
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such a fantastic watch it's so fun and 5
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years you can just wear it when you're
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on your way to the arcade just to have
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some fun with pinball or something and
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people be like oh my God that is the
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best watch Ever it is really fun so
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that's what I got I'm going to go play
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some Pac-Man so I'll have to catch you
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in my next video
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[Music]
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he
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