View Full Version : Convince me to buy Dig Dug!!!! Interesting garage sale find.
kethdredd
06-19-2004, 12:42 PM
So I'm going garage saleing. I never see anything good. Lo and behold I find a Did Dug standup arcade game. Sweet condition. $50. I'm sure I could have had it for $30 no problem....
So the "in the wild" find of a lifetime, and I don't get it.....
I can't convince myself to buy the darn thing. What the heck am I going to do with it? I don't even play the games I do have. But the other part of me claims that this is a deal of a lifetime... I still have the guys phone number... I'm still contemplating.. x_x
maxlords
06-19-2004, 12:50 PM
Being as you can easily resell it for $300-500....GO BUY IT!
SoulBlazer
06-19-2004, 12:53 PM
Exactly. If you decide not to keep it, then you know at least you can resell it for decent money, and make sure it finds itself a good home. :)
Cmosfm
06-19-2004, 12:57 PM
Yes, it's a deal of a lifetime, buy it just for the sake of having an arcade machine. Because I'll tell you, they just look SOOO COOOOL!
Crush Crawfish
06-19-2004, 01:07 PM
If I saw a dig dug machine for $50, I'd buy it faster than you can say "Poopty peupty pants"! I buy it, even having no room in my house to put or anyway to get it there! Yep, I'm crazy.
-hellvin-
06-19-2004, 01:25 PM
Holy mother I would have bought that. Get your ass back there and pick that up MAN!
Do you live in Illinois?
I'll give you $100 for it and you can double your money :D
Jasoco
06-19-2004, 02:56 PM
If I saw a dig dug machine for $50, I'd buy it faster than you can say "Poopty peupty pants"! I buy it, even having no room in my house to put or anyway to get it there! Yep, I'm crazy.Hell, I'd pay schfifty-five bucks for any arcade console.
tholly
06-19-2004, 03:18 PM
arcade machine for $50....buy it!
Pantechnicon
06-19-2004, 03:31 PM
$50 for Dig-Dug? And you didn't buy it? O_O
Why are you still sitting here reading this....go back and bag that thing! Take it from me (as per my Lunar Lander thread this week), deals like that do not come by often.
Balloon Fight
06-19-2004, 04:14 PM
You don't happen to live in Southern California do you?
I'd buy that thing the minute I saw it. Go back and get it...NOW!
Ed Oscuro
06-19-2004, 07:36 PM
Christ man. I just bought a Stratovox machine from The Collector and that was $250. If worst comes to worst, you can always try taking out stuff inside the machine, the coin drawer, whatever, and/or get a few friends with a truck.
Not buying a Dig Dug machine for $50? Well, it would have to be in piss poor condition for ME to pass that up. Ya know.
Phosphor Dot Fossils
06-19-2004, 07:43 PM
And even if you don't fancy a game of Dig Dug, or its innards aren't working, $50 ain't a bad price to pay for a decent arcade cabinet that you could turn into a nice MAME machine. Go forth and buy ye game.
(Get ye flask? You cannot get ye flask!)
Okay, I have been thinking about it and I have'
decided this must be a prank. :angry:
I have a hard time believing anyone in america would
sell a arcade game for $ 50 in this day and age
It seems to good to be true
Ed Oscuro
06-19-2004, 07:48 PM
And even if you don't fancy a game of Dig Dug ... $50 ain't a bad price to pay for a decent arcade cabinet that you could turn into a nice MAME machine.
Oh, the decadence! LOL
I would say you could turn this cab into cash, and then have enough money to BUY a small cocktail or some such that you could then convert. If I was converting a working (or even a non-working) cab, I'd keep the boards and electronics.
sniperCCJVQ
06-19-2004, 08:59 PM
Okay, I have been thinking about it and I have'
decided this must be a prank. :angry:
I have a hard time believing anyone in america would
sell a arcade game for $ 50 in this day and age
It seems to good to be true
Well i bought mine for $100.
Flack
06-19-2004, 09:00 PM
At the auctions I've been to, working Dig Dug's in decent condition go for $600-$700. On eBay they go for less because people have to figure in shipping. Regardless, $50, even for a completely empty, non-working Dig Dug cabinet, would be a good deal.
kethdredd
06-19-2004, 10:03 PM
Heh, this was no prank. I think someone else got it though. Tried calling but got no return phone call. I don't feel all that bad about it though.... Strangely. It was in beatiful shape. Funny thing is, he was trying to sell a PCjr for $150.
Arqueologia_Digital
06-19-2004, 10:05 PM
$ 50????, BUY IT NOW!!!!!!!, the day i can find an arcade machine here at that price iŽll be happy...
charitycasegreg
06-19-2004, 10:47 PM
Heh, this was no prank. I think someone else got it though. Tried calling but got no return phone call. I don't feel all that bad about it though.... Strangely. It was in beatiful shape. Funny thing is, he was trying to sell a PCjr for $150.
What the hell?!?! Are you on crack? You could have made at least $500 profit!!! GO see if the seller still has it!! Are you a collector or not?!?! Even if you would sell it that like a couple hundred nes games you could get with the money!!!
Flack
06-20-2004, 12:50 AM
I can't imagine not buying something (videogame related or not) knowing that I could sell it for 10x the price the next day.
Jasoco
06-20-2004, 01:01 AM
I can't imagine not buying something (videogame related or not) knowing that I could sell it for 10x the price the next day.Next day? What's wrong with same day? ;)
Hell, if I had an arcade machine, any arcade machine, for whatever cheap price I could get, I'd put the profits towards one that I'd like. At least it'd be money I didn't have before. Too bad all the machines I would even want are the expensive classics. Bubble Bobble, Simpsons, TMNT Arcade and Turtles in Time. Figures. Also a Crazy Taxi sit-down. Saw one at The Spaghetti Warehouse a month ago.. I want it!!! :(