Hey everyone!

[Retrogamer1998]

Hello everyone.
My name is Steven and I'm 15 years old. I've been collecting nintendo games and accessories since I was little. I collect mostly for the nes and have 50 games for it now. I just got my first arcade machine today and its a nintendo vs system with hogans alley in it. I hope to expand my arcade collection in the future and one day get every nes game released. I hope to make lots of friends here and get some knowledge on arcade machines.

[STEVESPEEZE]

Hey fellow gamer ...
well let me be the first to say "Hi" and share some arcade machine knowledge..  Most of them are heavy !

[Retrogamer1998]

Yeah they are. Moving that first one inside was horrible because of the way our house is set up. We had to pull it around to the back through all the mud and the little bit of snow left on the ground.

[STEVESPEEZE]

Yeah they are. Moving that first one inside was horrible because of the way our house is set up. We had to pull it around to the back through all the mud and the little bit of snow left on the ground.

i just brought 5 up three flights of stairs.. house was built in the 1800's so those allways are a beyatch.

[Retrogamer1998]

Wow how did that go moving them all up there? Once I get mine fully working we are gunna bring it inside up 2 flights of stairs.

[STEVESPEEZE]

Wow how did that go moving them all up there? Once I get mine fully working we are gunna bring it inside up 2 flights of stairs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0m9B7VCTdM

btw i was breathing heavy because that hallway is F___ing cold !

[Retrogamer1998]

Wow that's crazy. Nice DK jr tho. That's on my list of machines to get

[STEVESPEEZE]

I traded a control console and pcb for the cab empty . Built it up to be a coinops for now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXVQ8D0buow

[Retrogamer1998]

Awesome. There is a guy in Michigan a little north of Detroit that said he would sell me his empty DK jr cab but he wants $275 for it. I'm in central Ohio so paying that much plus shipping or renting a truck is gunna put more money into it than its actually worth. I seem to be in a bad area for arcades because nothing good ever comes up on Craigslist and I rarely find anything on eBay that's affordable either.

[STEVESPEEZE]

well normal build price for me is the following.

75 to 200 for an empty cab.
200 (free shipping off ebay) Xarcade Tankstick
50 to 125 for a decent monitor
50 for the xbox
30 for the 320 gig hard drive for the xbox
i buy black cardboard from walmart for the bezz 4 bux
20 bux to get somebody to get the cab to my house.

Im only doing 4 cabs with coinops for a reason., play more games without having to bring many cabs up three flights of stairs.
The rest will be original cocktail machines.  if i do get any more full size cabs it will be a tempest and Neo Geo multi.