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my latest pick up Ghosts 'n Goblins what the HELL?! "Sir Michael" not Sir Arthur

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opt2not:


--- Quote from: ragnar on October 25, 2011, 07:16:38 am ---You know how retired people buy cars from their youth right now and that has driven prices of 60s era cars up.  Is this going to happen to arcade cabinets in 20 years?

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Doubtful. Retired people don't buy those cars and put modern computerized engines in them. People mame up classics all the time, in turn reduces their value considerably. And I'm not talking about some joe-blow conversion cabinet like a Dynamo cab, I'm talking the classics, i.e. the Asteroids, DK's, Pacs...


leapinlew:


--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 25, 2011, 02:22:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: ragnar on October 25, 2011, 07:16:38 am ---You know how retired people buy cars from their youth right now and that has driven prices of 60s era cars up.  Is this going to happen to arcade cabinets in 20 years?

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Yeah, that happened like 8 years ago - when all the Gen Xers hit 35 and had real jobs and disposable income.  JAMMA cabinets went from worthless to $500.  Now they're worthless again.


Pinball prices shot up and have held pretty steady, but the volume of sales is way down.  I'm giving that hobby another 5 years tops before the bottom completely drops out.






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Yup...

Nephasth:


--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 25, 2011, 02:22:20 pm ---Pinball prices shot up and have held pretty steady, but the volume of sales is way down.  I'm giving that hobby another 5 years tops before the bottom completely drops out.

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I better hold off on buying a pin...

dr.detroit20:


--- Quote from: mrclean on October 25, 2011, 11:52:20 am ---Yes of course I know Capcom made the game, and distributed the rights to Taito, as well as Romstar. I personally think that the Romstar version has a way better marquee IMO:

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Right on! Nice score. That is a great game, one of my favorites. And I agree, I also like the Romstar/Capcom marquee best. But that dedicated cabinet is not too shabby.





mrclean:

This post is going off topic.. I really wanted to know if any one noticed the Sir Michael / Sir Arthur on the Ghosts N Goblins..But everyone has their own perceived value of what they think their stuff is worth.. Doesn't always dictate a buyer will think it's worth that much.

Oh and the dip switch settings on ghosts n' goblins were all whacky.. I used mikesarcade.com
http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/spies.cgi?action=url&type=dip&page=Ghosts_N_Goblins.txt

and than I found these:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/dipswitch-settings/7938.html, Read the bottom and said :
Note: We received an email in January, 2011 that stated the following:  

"I can tell you after much trial and error that the settings on this page are completely reversed.

The settings for DIP board 1A  are actually for 2A and vice-versa.

Also, within those DIP boards, the switches, even though they're labeled on the PCB as 8-1 running LEFT (8) to right (1),

are wrong on this cheat sheet as well.
Basically, reverse the order of the switches on both boards and change 1A to 2A and 2A to 1A."

sure enough that person was right and whoever originally posted the settings were all wrong. Just thought I'd pass that along if anyone else is pulling out their hair trying to change the dip switch settings on Ghosts 'n Goblins PCB. After reading that note I was able to set it up exactly how I wanted. I'm not sure how many other people keep all their games on similar / same settings. I personally like all my games with no demo sounds while in attract mode, 1 coin, 1 play / credit, normal difficulty, 3 lives.

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