question about arcade machines

[Qixmaster]

I just got back from a garage sale down the road and they happened to have two upright arcade machines. One was Mario Bros for 75 bucks and Looping for 215 bucks I immediately bought up the mario upright as its only problem was the brightness needed ajusted. I was just wondering if the Looping upright was worth 215 bucks. any help would be great. thanks

josh

[nildem]

Hell of a deal on the Mario cabinet. I paid $190.00 for one at an auction about a year ago.

Is yours a dedicated cabinet or a converted cabinet? I believe the easiest way to tell them apart is that the converted cabinet has a small "2 players" speech bubble next to one of the characters on the marquee. Some of the converted cabinets have light blue sides as opposed to the normal orange.

[Qixmaster]

i'll let you know, i'm going to pick em up right now :D

[Masco73]

:o :o That's a hell of a score!!! I would have offered $250 for both. Most people at garage sales are looking to move stuff and thats some big stuff.
A friend of mine got a working Donkey Kong machine for $20 because the guy just wanted it gone. I am hoping to find an arcade machine one day at a garge sale

[Qixmaster]

just got back with my new machine.... its a blue cabinet one.... thats all i can tell right now, i am trying to get a hold of someone so they can help me unload it.... everyone is at work and my mario arcade machine is sitting in the back of my pick up, i'm going nuts! i'm going to pick up the looping machine tomorrow. :D

[SoulBlazer]

Man, I would KILL to be able to get a Atari Star Wars sit down arcade machine -- that's the ONE game I love that has not been done justice with any of the home ports. Maybe the version included on the bonus disc for Rogue Squadron III for GC will change my mind.....

I'm afraid to ask how much those go for, though. :)

Oh, and I'd love a real Star Trek: TOS and TNG pinball game -- you know, the eletronic talking ones? :D

[Qixmaster]

that star wars sit down is off the hook... i highly doubt the gc thingy will do any justice tho.

[SoulBlazer]

What do you mean by 'off the hook'? :hmm:

I've got hopes for the GC port -- the pictures I've seen make it look like a spitting image. I know the GC is powerfull enough to do. The analog stick on the GC controller SHOULD do a good job of being able to move the crosshairs around.

A lot of great arcade games I've wanted over the years have been settled with good ports at last -- Gyruss and Time Pilot both for the PSX and GBA, etc. -- but that's one I really miss the Funspot in NH where I went to college at. :)

Oh, I'd love to get a Tron machine someday also.

At least the pinball games on Ebay don't go for a crazy ammount -- normaly around $300-500.

[The Unknown Gamer]

Becareful if you ever find a Tron arcade machine, I and a few friends have
been shocked by them.

[Captain Wrong]

Wait a sec...did you pick up that Looping? Maybe not the funnest game in the world (though not a bad game) but I don't think I've ever seen even in a picture that coin op. From a collector's stand point, that's a keeper.

[nildem]

That's a hell of a score!!! I would have offered $250 for both. Most people at garage sales are looking to move stuff and thats some big stuff.
A friend of mine got a working Donkey Kong machine for $20 because the guy just wanted it gone. I am hoping to find an arcade machine one day at a garge sale


I'm still kicking myself for passing up a dedicated Double Dragon machine for $75.00 at a garage sale once. :( I still don't know what I was thinking.

[kevincure]

The one day I go to work instead of garage saling with Qixmaster. Ah well, what can you do. I'll just have to find one of those Boston Minicades that christianscott27 seems to pull out every year :-)

[Qixmaster]

What do you mean by 'off the hook'? :hmm:

off the hook = rad. wasn't implying that the game was bad by any means... i agree that it is a way fun machine. adios

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Here's another question about arcade machines, while we're at it.

Remember those extra monitors that arcade owners used to connect to certain machines so more people could watch them? These became very popular around the time Dragon's Lair hit, naturally. What were these called within the business!? Was there an industry term for them other than "those extra monitors that arcade owners used to connect to certain machines so more people could watch them"?

Also, o Master of the Qix, I'd love to see a photo of that Looping if it's in the original cabinet. What a find!

[sidgoop]

Most of the time, they were the same type of monitor that was in the cabinet. The games you talk about either had an auxiliary video output, or just split the signal into another monitor.