SNES Coin Operated Arcade System

[ZiLL]

Ok...anyone have any history on this thing? Any idea what it's worth? I have the opportunity to purchase one, but the price is a little steep.

[ScourDX]

Check this website for more info. From the website it is rated 7/100 for rarity. Which means 1=rare 100=common. Price wise you probably looking around $600+ depending on condition.

[InsaneDavid]

It's the SNES equivalent of the PlayChoice 10.

[Cinder6]

I've always been skeptical of KLOV's rarity guide. While a great informational resource, I doubt the veracity of a metric generated solely based off of user reports. Besides the fact the users might enter the wrong details, the VAPS is a relatively obscure "society", though I admit it's better-known in the arcade-collecting circles, which is what it's tailored to. Maybe I'm making a big to-do about nothing

I had a point with this... I guess posting while literally sick and tired isn't the best venture.

[Cornelius]

I've always been skeptical of KLOV's rarity guide. While a great informational resource, I doubt the veracity of a metric generated solely based off of user reports. Besides the fact the users might enter the wrong details, the VAPS is a relatively obscure "society", though I admit it's better-known in the arcade-collecting circles, which is what it's tailored to. Maybe I'm making a big to-do about nothing

I had a point with this... I guess posting while literally sick and tired isn't the best venture.

If I may be so bold, I think you might have been getting at the following: In our collecting field for, say, NES, a 7/100 would put it at about the same rarity as Cheetahmen II or Stadium Events (a teensy bit rarer, in fact). Now those are what, 500 times more expensive than a typical NES game? Arcade prices don't seem to spike quite as much as NES for any number of reasons, though. Even so, I'd have to agree, it seems there is something off about their ratings.

[aaron7]

Get it. Who cares about price, when will you EVER have the chance to get another??

[Cinder6]

If I may be so bold, I think you might have been getting at the following: In our collecting field for, say, NES, a 7/100 would put it at about the same rarity as Cheetahmen II or Stadium Events (a teensy bit rarer, in fact). Now those are what, 500 times more expensive than a typical NES game? Arcade prices don't seem to spike quite as much as NES for any number of reasons, though. Even so, I'd have to agree, it seems there is something off about their ratings.

Yes! Thanks, that does look like what I was trying to say (lol). The prices don't seem to match the rarity. According to VAPS, Pacman (the original, not Ms.) is the most commonly-owned arcade machine (a Neo Geo MVS is at #7, if that gives any perspective). Yet, shopping for any of the Pacman machines, you'll see they usually command $1000 or so, sometimes more (depending on the cabinet style, and what "edition" it is).

Finally, I have a hard time believing Pacman is the most common arcade machine out there. While yes, it is definitely more common than this SNES machine, nothing is easier to find? If you shop Craigslist, you can find Neo Geos all the time. You can find Pacmans, but they're typically harder to find. Then again, this may be a geographic issue.

[Buyatari]

Ask Mike at www.Videogameconnections.com what he paid for his. He has one in his store. I think he paid ~200 for it on ebay.

[kazuo]

I played that a few times when I was younger.

Where is it located? I might pick it up if you pass on it.

[DigitalSpace]

There's a pizza restaurant not too far from my house (Izzy's Pizza at Eastport Plaza, to be specific) that had this cab in their arcade area up until a few years ago. It had three games to choose from: Super Mario World, F-Zero, and Super Tennis. Once you put a quarter in, you picked a game, and then you got to play that game for a set amount of time (I don't remember exactly how long, but it was pretty short).

That's the only place I ever saw this cab outside of the internet. Come to think of it, I wonder what happened to the one at Izzy's. I'm guessing something broke (if so, here's hoping someone saved it from the landfill and got it working again). On the plus side, they replaced it with a Tetris cab.

[ZiLL]

I ended up passing on this cab, just not enough room to store it at this moment...shame too.

This was/is for sale in Sacramento if anyone else is interested. The cab is in wonderful shape btw.

[InsaneDavid]

I ended up passing on this cab, just not enough room to store it at this moment...shame too.

This was/is for sale in Sacramento if anyone else is interested. The cab is in wonderful shape btw.

Off hand, what was the price they were asking?

[Cinder6]

Odd, there have been quite a few arcade systems in Sacramento that I'd have been interested in buying. Why couldn't it have been this way in July, which would have saved me a trip to Milpitas? Oh well.

[ZiLL]

Off hand, what was the price they were asking?

$600 Firm.