Interesting "tabletop" arcade game on ebay...

[stargate]

Stumbled across this. Would never pay the price the seller is asking, but it looks pretty cool. I wonder how the build quality is and what he has running under the hood/how it works. I am assuming just an emulator and simple PC set up. Looks sort of cool though I must admit.


http://cgi.ebay.com/Ms-Pacman-Tabletop-Video-Game-/110721057852?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c77d443c

Here is another by the same seller:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ms-Pacman-Arcade-Video-Tabletop-Game-/110729122163?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c7f85173

[Sunnyvale]

Cool, but yeah, that's stupid money. At $100, count me in.

[Baloo]

at $1000 you can buy a cocktail Ms. Pac-Man Cabinet, why pay $700 for a far inferior looking cabinet?

[stargate]

at $1000 you can buy a cocktail Ms. Pac-Man Cabinet, why pay $700 for a far inferior looking cabinet?

Agreed. I would probably pay $300 tops. I mean, it is cool looking and somewhat professional looking. Doesn't look like something hacked together. But his pricing is insane. Maybe it cost him a lot to build especially if he bought a brand new monitor and stuff.

[InsaneDavid]

at $1000 you can buy a cocktail Ms. Pac-Man Cabinet, why pay $700 for a far inferior looking cabinet?

At $1000 you can fill half an arcade if you have some patience and are willing to pick the machines up at the drop of a hat once the deals are found. The only cab I've ever paid "retail" for was my Galaxian cocktail at $500 but I freaking love that thing and it got me back into the hobby proper.

While I'm down with small cabinets and the cabaret class of machines in general, the smallest I can go is my MAME mini.

http://www.classicplastic.net/dvgi/special-galagamultigame-23.jpg

http://www.classicplastic.net/dvgi/special-galagamultigame-07.jpg

[stargate]

At $1000 you can fill half an arcade if you have some patience and are willing to pick the machines up at the drop of a hat once the deals are found. The only cab I've ever paid "retail" for was my Galaxian cocktail at $500 but I freaking love that thing and it got me back into the hobby proper.

While I'm down with small cabinets and the cabaret class of machines in general, the smallest I can go is my MAME mini.

http://www.classicplastic.net/dvgi/special-galagamultigame-23.jpg

http://www.classicplastic.net/dvgi/special-galagamultigame-07.jpg

Pretty sweet !!

[Baloo]

At $1000 you can fill half an arcade if you have some patience and are willing to pick the machines up at the drop of a hat once the deals are found. The only cab I've ever paid "retail" for was my Galaxian cocktail at $500 but I freaking love that thing and it got me back into the hobby proper.

While I'm down with small cabinets and the cabaret class of machines in general, the smallest I can go is my MAME mini.



Very true David, I see craigslist ads all the time for a lot of different cabs for $300-400, and good games too. Recently I saw an Asteroids for $350, a Centipede Cocktail for $350, hell even a Ghosts and Goblins cabinet for $125. None are in minty shape of course, but they're all very good prices.

That's also an awesome looking mini-cab, how much did it cost you to make? I'd love to someday own my own cabinet, but at the moment the house simply has no room for one.

[InsaneDavid]

Didn't build the cabinet myself, it was more of a re-purposing and converting, all info here (http://www.classicplastic.net/dvgi/special-galagamultigame.html).