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Title: How screwed are you? Post by: VertexGuy on July 14, 2014, 10:23:31 pm Who here lives in a really bad area to be into this hobby?
by bad area I mean arcade machines very very hard to find .. or maybe you do find a few and they are all tore up or hacked. and finally .. infested with multicades. There is a couple other people in the hobby near me, but they are sharks.. They will try to sell you something and tell you it works , take your money and run. One dude in my town is selling parts that isn't even his.. or he sells something ahead of time he hasn't even picked up or bought yet. he makes himself the middle man and marks the price up. I have one good source for repair parts, and by parts I mean caps, connectors , ribbons .. and stuff. As far as arcade machines, they do have an auction near me but goddamn is that auction bootleg. Finally , when you do find a machine that is decent.. they want a million bux. Final thoughts are.. Im gonna end up buying a truck or van and travel to PA or further south and buy 5 more machines. sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet. Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: airsoftmodels on July 15, 2014, 11:09:24 am Here in Southern California we get: $850 Centipede, $800 Red Baron with a fucked up screen, and a $750 Defender that needs work. Oh, don't forget the $1600 Multicades from Santa Clarita and other disguised locations!
http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4500606704.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4546473434.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4513004620.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4566380197.html Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: pimppride on July 15, 2014, 12:35:53 pm yea, locally we have a good supply, but the description / condition is like getting sold to by a used car salesman from hell
how are you going to comfortably play paperboy on a cocktail with a crammed up wannabe street fighter setup... like this guy is showing ( http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4566380197.html ) Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: VertexGuy on July 15, 2014, 02:11:13 pm yea, locally we have a good supply, but the description / condition is like getting sold to by a used car salesman from hell how are you going to comfortably play paperboy on a cocktail with a crammed up wannabe street fighter setup... like this guy is showing ( http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4566380197.html ) Wow , those are the kind of piles of shit im talkin bout. Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: VertexGuy on July 15, 2014, 02:53:14 pm Here in Southern California we get: $850 Centipede, $800 Red Baron with a fucked up screen, and a $750 Defender that needs work. Oh, don't forget the $1600 Multicades from Santa Clarita and other disguised locations! http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4500606704.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4546473434.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4513004620.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4566380197.html I would pay $700 for a good working centipede with a good cab. the rest of those can pound up a rope. Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: John's Arcade on July 15, 2014, 03:37:03 pm Here in Southern California we get: $850 Centipede, $800 Red Baron with a fucked up screen, and a $750 Defender that needs work. Oh, don't forget the $1600 Multicades from Santa Clarita and other disguised locations! http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4500606704.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4546473434.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4513004620.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4566380197.html I would pay $700 for a good working centipede with a good cab. the rest of those can pound up a rope. Then why don't you? The games are right in front of you: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=272212&highlight=centipede Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: Mr_Rampage on July 15, 2014, 04:08:41 pm I live in the arcade dead zone. The only arcade machine in this entire town is my gumball machine if that give you an idea.
Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: VertexGuy on July 15, 2014, 07:53:32 pm Here in Southern California we get: $850 Centipede, $800 Red Baron with a fucked up screen, and a $750 Defender that needs work. Oh, don't forget the $1600 Multicades from Santa Clarita and other disguised locations! http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4500606704.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4546473434.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4513004620.html http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4566380197.html I would pay $700 for a good working centipede with a good cab. the rest of those can pound up a rope. Then why don't you? The games are right in front of you: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=272212&highlight=centipede I don't craigslist that far out .. I just do your average Hartford craigslist search. Never saw that one. plus this "When you first turn it on, it plays a little screwy. Once it warms up (about 5 minutes) it plays fine" would bother the fuck outta me. Id have to get a truck, pay gas and shit.. buy a new board.. total 700. When I get a truck at the end of next month im going down south for some machines. way fucking cheaper. Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: darkcat1 on July 17, 2014, 08:32:20 am sometimes I see a few real things but it's usually markups and multis
Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: VertexGuy on July 17, 2014, 01:34:21 pm sometimes I see a few real things but it's usually markups and multis "Welcome to the strip club" (multimachines made from stripped cabs) Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: iankellogg on July 17, 2014, 09:57:03 pm if you aren't willing to travel 6 hours round trip for games you are going to have a rough time in this hobby.
Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: VertexGuy on July 18, 2014, 12:01:24 am That's funny you should mention that ian..
I offered you free working monitors when you needed em and you complained it was too far Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: iankellogg on July 18, 2014, 05:56:06 am You are about a 12 hour round trip for me. If I could spare the time to do a two day trip I would love to have those monitors.
Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: MastarArcade on July 18, 2014, 09:43:48 am I'm definitely in a dead zone. Occasionally there is a rare nugget of gold here or there, but for the most part, there is very little to choose from and prices are unnecessarily hyper-inflated. :'(
Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: BloodyCactus on July 18, 2014, 09:58:04 am im not in a dead zone, my zone does not exist.
my walmart has one of those fancy coin donation bowls, where the quarter races around and around and drops into a hole. does that count? welcome to the rural mountains! Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: Mr_Rampage on July 19, 2014, 11:59:00 am im not in a dead zone, my zone does not exist. my walmart has one of those fancy coin donation bowls, where the quarter races around and around and drops into a hole. does that count? welcome to the rural mountains! Ya I don't even have a walmart where I live. All we've got is a fareway, shopko and dollar general. I have seen the donation machine though at a walmart i visited those are neat. Title: Re: How screwed are you? Post by: VertexGuy on July 20, 2014, 02:28:59 pm I gotta drive to Mass this week to pick up a machine , then get my ass to PA next week.. Gonna take a train and blow a few grand .
Wanna fill a room with cabs for now. still have empty spots. That's gonna be all the traveling im gonna do for a while I guess. |