I own about 100 stand up arcade games with around 14 pinball machines and around 150 Jamma/Non Jamma PCBs that are all different...
I own about 100 stand up arcade games with around 14 pinball machines and around 150 Jamma/Non Jamma PCBs that are all different...
so out of your vast collection what're the highlights?Originally Posted by DreamTR
For pinball, a Twilight ZOne and a Tales of the Arabian Nights
PCB boards, the rarest I have is an unreleased Punky DOodle with marquee and side art, and a unreleased Tenth Degree
Arcade machines...hard to say, I have a Gauntlet Dark Legacy and Blitz 99 dedicated that have never been on location, classic games: dedicated Donkey Kong Junior, Dedicated Mario Bros Widebody, dedicated Dig Dug, I mean, it's random, really
Reposting my list (which is pages back) with updates. But first...here's what I USED to own. I got this entire lot (and there were over 60 machines in it) for $550Also came with something like 10 boxes of classic PCBs, and another 5 of manuals and such, as well as stacks of boxes of parts, coin mechs, pinball machine legs, and more....
Not pictured:
Q-Bert (dead)
Major Havoc (flyback toast)
Playboy pinball
Joust 2 Player cocktail pinball (needed a LOT of TLC)
Kiss pinball
Spy Hunter pinball
Some of the cabs
A bunch more NSM and other jukeboxes (all 45s)
scooterb: "I once shot a man in Catan, just to watch him die."
And here's what I own now:
Along with these PCBs:
Neo Geo MVS games:
Alpha Mission II US MVS cart
Andro Dunos US MVS Kit #059284
Blazing Star US MVS cart
Burning Fight US MVS cart
Crossed Swords US MVS cart # 019532
Cyber-Lip
King of Fighters '98
Last Resort MVS cart # 041281
Magical Drop 2 US MVS cart # 000036
Magician Lord
Metal Slug US MVS Kit # 008103
Metal Slug 3 US MVS Kit # 40633
Neo Drift Out
Ninja Combat US MVS cart
Ninja Commando US MVS cart
Pulstar US MVS cart
Sengoku 3 US MVS cart
Shock Troopers
Shock Troopers 2 US MVS Kit # 010347
The Last Blade
Top Hunter
Twinkle Star Sprites MVS cart
Viewpoint
Windjammers US MVS cart
Arcade Games
19XX: The War of Destiny (CPS2, suicided)
1943
1944: The Loop Master (CPS2)
Armed Police Batrider (Raizing)
Brave Blade (Raizing)
Buster Bros.
Cadash
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (bootleg)
Change Air Blade (quite rare)
Columns '97 (ST-V cart)
Contra
Cotton 2 (ST-V cart)
Cotton Boomerang (ST-V cart)
Die Hard Trilogy (ST-V cart)
Dodonpachi Dai Ou Jou (white label, battery removed)
Dogyuun (Toaplan)
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (CPS2)
Dynasty Wars (Tenchi Wo Kurao)
Esp.Ra.De (Cave)
Exvania (sooooo rare)
Great Mahou Daisakusen (CPS2, Raizing)
Guardian Force (ST-V cart)
Gunforce (Irem)
Heavy Unit
Hellfire (Toaplan)
Karnov (Data East)
Knights of the Round (Capcom)
Mr. Driller 2 (Namco)
Neo Geo One-Slot motherboard
Night Raid (G-Net card)
Out Zone (Toaplan)
Psyvariar Medium Unit (GNet card)
Psyvariar Revision (GNet card)
Puyo Puyo Sun (ST-V cart)
Progear No Arashi (CPS2, bootleg)
Rabbit Punch (scrambled)
Rally Bike (Toaplan)
R-Type (Irem)
R-Type II
R-Type Leo (Irem)
Sega ST-V motherboard (Dual Bios)
Shienryu (ST-V cart)
Shikigami No Shiro (GNet card)
Sidearms (scrambled)
Sky Shark (Toaplan)
Soukyugurentai/Terra Diver (Raizing)
Snow Bros: Nick & Tom (Toaplan)
Star Trigon
Super Contra (Konami)
Super Puzzle Bobble (GNet card)
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (CPS2)
Taito G-Net motherboard (V2)
Tank Force (Namco)
Tatsujin Oh! (Toaplan)
Truxton (Toaplan)
V-V (Toaplan)
Varth: Operation Thunderbolt (Capcom)
Warriors of Fate (Capcom, bootleg)
Winter Heat (ST-V cart)
Wyvern Wings
XII Stag (GNet card)
X-Multiply (Irem)
Zero Wing (Toaplan)
WHEW! I think that's it for now....don't have anything else coming in at the moment either as far as I know....
scooterb: "I once shot a man in Catan, just to watch him die."
Ah man is that cool! Those two Mata Hari pinballs look nice, currently rebuilding the backbox to mine. Can't say I've seen a lot of that size go up on one listing, was it an auction or someone tell you about a place that was closing? Seems like an incredible score and unless you had a storage warehouse or retail front I cannot see having so many machines on-hand. That's also a good number of trips with a 24' truck unless the property conveyed with the machines!Reposting my list (which is pages back) with updates. But first...here's what I USED to own. I got this entire lot (and there were over 60 machines in it) for $550
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It was a lot that belonged to the dad of a girl I went to university with. He had em all in storage since the 80s when the arcade he was a part of folded, and didn't want to see em all go the landfill so he saved his favorites. Unfortunately he couldn't afford the storage fees any longer, so I took them all off his hands for free. It cost me $550 to rent the 2 semi trailers to haul em all in
I tried opening up a retro arcade but it ended up failing due to poor demand, limited advertising, and location. I had to store the whole lot in a warehouse in the back of my friend's bookstore (free rent though) and he didn't want to run it while the bookstore was open. I sold and traded machines for the repairs and to pay for repainting and wiring up the warehouse to use as an arcade. With my limited income....it was a total failure since I couldn't get a decent location. Ended up selling the lot for 10K to someone on the newsgroups, they came and took it all away. It was a hell of an experience though...and every single machine in there got the hell played out of it!
From the sales.....I gave half to my friend's dad too. I ended up coming out a few grand ahead and I had a lot of fun...but I'd never buy a lot that big again!
As for the pins, one of those Mata Haris worked well, the other, not so much. Not pictured were also a Flash Gordon, a Bally Playboy, a Bally Kiss, the Spy Hunter I bought (fully shopped for $500) and the Joust
On top of that, the guy that fixed my machines lent me a High Speed, a Pinbot, and a Bride of Pinbot to use as well. He lent me a few other machines too....Aliens, Carrier Airwing, etc, as well as a couple of pool tables. I wish I'd thought to take better pictures back then but there were a few other swank machines in there, like a working Phoenix, a Gunsmoke, and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head, as well as a couple of non-working EMs, a dead 2 player Super Sprint, and a handful of other goodies.
Last edited by maxlords; 04-28-2011 at 01:58 AM.
scooterb: "I once shot a man in Catan, just to watch him die."
Wow man, good story!It was a lot that belonged to the dad of a girl I went to university with. He had em all in storage since the 80s when the arcade he was a part of folded, and didn't want to see em all go the landfill so he saved his favorites. Unfortunately he couldn't afford the storage fees any longer, so I took them all off his hands for free. It cost me $550 to rent the 2 semi trailers to haul em all in
I tried opening up a retro arcade but it ended up failing due to poor demand, limited advertising, and location. I had to store the whole lot in a warehouse in the back of my friend's bookstore (free rent though) and he didn't want to run it while the bookstore was open. I sold and traded machines for the repairs and to pay for repainting and wiring up the warehouse to use as an arcade. With my limited income....it was a total failure since I couldn't get a decent location. Ended up selling the lot for 10K to someone on the newsgroups, they came and took it all away. It was a hell of an experience though...and every single machine in there got the hell played out of it!
From the sales.....I gave half to my friend's dad too. I ended up coming out a few grand ahead and I had a lot of fun...but I'd never buy a lot that big again!
As for the pins, one of those Mata Haris worked well, the other, not so much. Not pictured were also a Flash Gordon, a Bally Playboy, a Bally Kiss, the Spy Hunter I bought (fully shopped for $500) and the Joust
On top of that, the guy that fixed my machines lent me a High Speed, a Pinbot, and a Bride of Pinbot to use as well. He lent me a few other machines too....Aliens, Carrier Airwing, etc, as well as a couple of pool tables. I wish I'd thought to take better pictures back then but there were a few other swank machines in there, like a working Phoenix, a Gunsmoke, and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head, as well as a couple of non-working EMs, a dead 2 player Super Sprint, and a handful of other goodies.
A handful of us out here have been thinking about opening a place with an arcade and pinball row, maybe 20 machines. Other ideas bouncing around to be included in the space, but man is the risk high but the location could be incredible due to the foot traffic it receives. Just don't know, times are so flaky and a few of the arcade spots here have closed up their extra locations or relocated to high traffic spots. If they had the pockets to research the market then it may not be a good idea to attempt near their old turf.
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Wow, that really is an awesome story dude! How long was your arcade open for? Love the pics too, that's a really nice selection of great games!It was a lot that belonged to the dad of a girl I went to university with. He had em all in storage since the 80s when the arcade he was a part of folded, and didn't want to see em all go the landfill so he saved his favorites. Unfortunately he couldn't afford the storage fees any longer, so I took them all off his hands for free. It cost me $550 to rent the 2 semi trailers to haul em all in
I tried opening up a retro arcade but it ended up failing due to poor demand, limited advertising, and location. I had to store the whole lot in a warehouse in the back of my friend's bookstore (free rent though) and he didn't want to run it while the bookstore was open. I sold and traded machines for the repairs and to pay for repainting and wiring up the warehouse to use as an arcade. With my limited income....it was a total failure since I couldn't get a decent location. Ended up selling the lot for 10K to someone on the newsgroups, they came and took it all away. It was a hell of an experience though...and every single machine in there got the hell played out of it!
From the sales.....I gave half to my friend's dad too. I ended up coming out a few grand ahead and I had a lot of fun...but I'd never buy a lot that big again!
As for the pins, one of those Mata Haris worked well, the other, not so much. Not pictured were also a Flash Gordon, a Bally Playboy, a Bally Kiss, the Spy Hunter I bought (fully shopped for $500) and the Joust
On top of that, the guy that fixed my machines lent me a High Speed, a Pinbot, and a Bride of Pinbot to use as well. He lent me a few other machines too....Aliens, Carrier Airwing, etc, as well as a couple of pool tables. I wish I'd thought to take better pictures back then but there were a few other swank machines in there, like a working Phoenix, a Gunsmoke, and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head, as well as a couple of non-working EMs, a dead 2 player Super Sprint, and a handful of other goodies.
Seeing as I'm quoting a post from 5 months ago, did you guys ever try anything to run an arcade?Wow man, good story!
A handful of us out here have been thinking about opening a place with an arcade and pinball row, maybe 20 machines. Other ideas bouncing around to be included in the space, but man is the risk high but the location could be incredible due to the foot traffic it receives. Just don't know, times are so flaky and a few of the arcade spots here have closed up their extra locations or relocated to high traffic spots. If they had the pockets to research the market then it may not be a good idea to attempt near their old turf.
I'm on my way to obtaining my first arcade machine, a Tempest that's been sitting in the attic of my church for 20+ years now, hopefully in a few weeks I'll have it moved out and into my house, then I'll take pictures and post them in here
Please tell me where you find this many games for $550Reposting my list (which is pages back) with updates. But first...here's what I USED to own. I got this entire lot (and there were over 60 machines in it) for $550
Not pictured:
Q-Bert (dead)
Major Havoc (flyback toast)
Playboy pinball
Joust 2 Player cocktail pinball (needed a LOT of TLC)
Kiss pinball
Spy Hunter pinball
Some of the cabs
A bunch more NSM and other jukeboxes (all 45s)
I've accumulated a few machines the last year:
Bloody Wolf in a Taito cab
Frogger (sans PCB)
Gorf (was converted to jamma, working on bringing it back to gorf)
Sega ESwat in a Defender cab
Williams Tri Zone pinball.
-Rob
Console Collection:
TeleGames Super Pong, 2600, 5200, 7800, Jaguar, Intellivision, ColecoVision, TurboGrafx, 3DO, Master System, Genesis/ CD/ 32x, Saturn, Dreamcast, NES, SNES, 64, Gamecube, Wii, PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Game Gear, Lynx, GB, GBP, GBC, GBA, GBA SP, GBM, DS, 3DS, NGP, NGPC, WonderSwan & PSP
I really want to get more involved with arcade machines, but space is the ever preventative issue.
That aside, I do have some arcade machines.
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Video Game Arcade Cabinets:
• Dedicated Single Monitor Playchoice 10 w/ the following PCBs installed:
- Super Mario Brothers
- Super Mario Brothers 2
- Super Mario Brothers 3
- Metroid
- Rescue Rangers
- Mega Man 3
- Rockin' Kats
- The Goonies
- Nintendo World Cup
- TMNT 2
Spare PCBs:
- Rygar
- Tecmo Bowl
- Dr Mario x2
- Baseball Stars
- Mike Tyson's Punch-out!! x2
- Rescue Rangers
• Space Invaders Part II (Cocktail)
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Pinball Machines:
• Bally Midway's Eight Ball Deluxe (Limited Edition)
• William's Strato-Flit
• William's Triple Action
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Other Coin-ops:
• United's Marquise Shuffle Alley
• Putting Challenge II
• English Mark Darts
• Bulova Silverball (Counter Top)
Last edited by Esquire Fox; 07-04-2012 at 10:13 AM.
CPS1 Boards
Captain Commando
Final Fight
CPS2 Boards
Alien vs Predator
Armored Warriors
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom
Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara
Marvel Super Heroes
Progear
Street Fighter Zero 2
Super Street Fighter II
Normal Jamma Boards
Martial Champion
P.O.W. Prisoner of War
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Combatribes
Truxton
x-Men
IGS PGM
Demon Front
Knights of Valour
Atomiswave
Dolphin Blue
Guilty Gear Isuka
Hokuto no Ken/Fist of the North Star
Knights of Valour: The Seven Spirits
Neo Geo Battle Coliseum
The King of Fighters Neowave
The Rumble Fish
Neo Geo MVS
Blazing Star
Gururin
Kabuki Klash
Magical Drop II
Metal Slug
Metal Slug X
Metal Slug 3
Metal Slug 5
Panic Bomber
Shock Troopers
Shock Troopers 2nd Squad
Super Dodge Ball
Zed Blade
Chun Li's Pal
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