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Flack
10-12-2008, 02:54 PM
Got these at an estate sale yesterday. Paid $120 for Centipede and $80 for Ms. Pac-Man.
http://www.robohara.com/pix/blog/centy.jpg
norkusa
10-12-2008, 03:04 PM
Oh wow, those look great. Can't believe you got them so cheap. Whenever I hit garage/estate sales, stuff like this is always overpriced.
wow super nice find there man :o
shawnbo42
10-12-2008, 05:07 PM
Stole those two, did we? Nice find, how many thousand sales did you hit before you found this?
Kevin H
10-12-2008, 05:29 PM
Very Nice, And i thought Ms. Pacman would've been the more expensive.
cyberfluxor
10-12-2008, 05:32 PM
Congrats Flack, they appear to be in insanely clean condition. Did it appear as though they were in storage or actually played?
Joe West
10-12-2008, 05:34 PM
great find, do they work, they look great.....
otaku
10-12-2008, 06:52 PM
awesome find! Arcade machines around here tend to be high priced or sell quickly or something is wrong with them.
jcalder8
10-12-2008, 07:23 PM
That's an awesome find and those look like they are in fantastic condition.
Flack
10-12-2008, 08:56 PM
It was actually an Estate Auction. There were 3 other people there interested in the games. 1 guy was probably in his late 50s and had no idea about games. 1 guy was Mexican and spoke very little English. The third guy was with the auction company.
The Centipede went for more because it was turned on and working. The Ms. Pac-Man has a VRAM error which should be easy to fix (I think). There was a poor Donkey Kong to Shinobi conversion, and a pinball table that broke three times while I was there so I passed on those two. The Hot Shots pinball went for $200 to the auctioneer's friend and the Shinobi (which was broken and as far as the owner knew "had never worked" went to the Mexican guy for $60 (I was willing to go $50).
Flack
10-12-2008, 08:57 PM
Stole those two, did we? Nice find, how many thousand sales did you hit before you found this?
Thousands, probably. It pays to have friends all over town. I was tipped off to these by my old realtor/neighbor. Haven't spoken to her in a few years and she called me to let me know she had seen them up for sale.
shawnbo42
10-12-2008, 10:34 PM
Nice! It always pays to talk to everyone, you never know who's going to come back to you with something like this. I have had games (home system stuff) literally dropped on me like this by a "friend of a friend" deal who didn't want them anymore, and someone shot them my way. Again, nice find on those 2 machines, too bad one of them wasn't a 720 though....
channelmaniac
10-13-2008, 09:02 AM
The Ms. Pac-Man has a VRAM error which should be easy to fix (I think).
Those are 2114 SRAM ICs.
Bad V RAM-0 = RAM located at 4K
Bad V RAM-1 = RAM located at 4N
RJ
Videogamerdaryll
10-13-2008, 11:30 AM
:hail:..
Congrats on a Great Score!!!!