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loman4ec
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« on: July 12, 2005, 08:23:33 pm » |
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I have found someone that has 5 old arcade games in there garage. They owned an arcade in the early 80's and this is what they have left. They know nothing about them and they havent been touched in almost 20 years. They are Donkey Kong JR, Qix, Jungle Hunt, Centipede, and Sega Turbo. It is the daughter of the people that own them that is selling them. They need them out and she said they will take almost nothing for them. She plugged them in and they didn't turn on. I was an Arcade tech for some time in Ohio so I know how to work on them. What I am asking is does anyone know anything about old arcade games here? Also would anyone be interested in them.
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jasmine64
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2005, 08:32:08 pm » |
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I may be interested in the centipede.
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Marsha
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loman4ec
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2005, 08:39:10 pm » |
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Never mind she emailed me to inform me that they all just sold. Just my luck. Oh well.
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2005, 10:27:54 pm » |
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Shoot!!!!!! I would have LOVED to have added "Jungle Hunt" to my collection!!!!!!!!
I spent a lot of quarters on that game (actually on the original version which was called "Junge King" until the Tarzan estate sued). I can still hear the swishing sound of the vines.
What a bummer that they already sold!!!
I hope she got a lot of money for them, because they are all worth a lot!
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« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2005, 12:30:54 am » |
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I recently put a pac man machine in my shop. Gonna have to move it out, spending to much time playing instead of working.  '>
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BrianB
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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2005, 07:07:00 am » |
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I too wish I had some more room to fit in a few stand-up arcade games...for as many quarters as I plunked into those infernal machines, I think I deserve some free-play action!! '>
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MoonDawg
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« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2005, 10:37:46 am » |
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| Quote (loman4ec @ July 12 2005,6:39) | | Never mind she emailed me to inform me that they all just sold. Just my luck. Oh well. |
Facing a spur of the moment decision. We've all been there. You could have made some money.....or you could have lost money.
It's even worse when the seller says " snooze U lose"  '> |
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glassbottlesrule
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« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2005, 08:22:32 pm » |
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Josh, with the way MAME is going and the multigames the classics aren't worth as much as they once were. Just in the last year or so most classics ie. Defender, centipede,pacman, DK etc have went down in value a couple hundred bucks. Used to be a nice working well known title was a easy grand. Now AI see friends scrapping to get 600-800 bucks for a clean machine. Would have loved to get my hands on a nice QIX though.
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« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2005, 08:48:35 pm » |
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I know people love MAME, but honestly, nostalgia sells and there is NOTHING like the original machine standing in your home.
Think about it, do we all have modern replicas of Coke machines filling our house and garage? No, we want the originals.
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