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| Mike A:
I am tired of the argument that it brings more people into the hobby. I don't want more people unless they care about the games. I had to pay way too much for my Tempest. I saw a Taito cab gutted and raped by a Pandora's box on Craigslist. It pisses me off. |
| pbj:
It doesn't bring anyone into the hobby, all it does it kill prices. $2,000 for a Ms Pacman cabinet, or $20 for a miniature one that's close enough and you'll be tired of in a week? Those TV joysticks killed the value of those classics overnight. The bitching was unreal at arcade shows that year.... The get a $300 Ms Pac, fix the board, cap the monitor, throw $400 decals on it, and flip it for a $1,000 profit days were over. :lol |
| wp34:
--- Quote from: pbj on November 20, 2018, 10:27:22 am ---It doesn't bring anyone into the hobby, all it does it kill prices. $2,000 for a Ms Pacman cabinet, or $20 for a miniature one that's close enough and you'll be tired of in a week? Those TV joysticks killed the value of those classics overnight. The bitching was unreal at arcade shows that year.... The get a $300 Ms Pac, fix the board, cap the monitor, throw $400 decals on it, and flip it for a $1,000 profit days were over. :lol --- End quote --- You just made me pro-Arcade 1Up. It they kill the flipper and 60-1 "conversion" market that is a good thing. |
| pbj:
Yeah, pretty sure Arcade 1Up killed the market for multicades this Christmas. One guy in Houston pretty much did that as his only source of income and he's been awfully quiet lately.... |
| opt2not:
Whenever I see those shelves in department stores with the cheapie arcade products like Arcade 1UP or the Jakks stuff, I just roll my eyes, sigh, and let a little piece of my soul die away. I don't care for making this hobby more accessible. I say keep it exclusive, niche. Makes people really work to learn about their projects, gets them to understand how to maintain their cabinets and it keeps the level of quality higher. All this hoo-ra for making arcade games more accessible is just biting us in the ass. We've seen it already, time and time again, and it's getting worse. Prices of items are now getting to ridiculous levels. There was a list of sub-$100 boards that you could get a year ago (and was priced like that for years prior) that have now almost doubled in price now. This trend of converted original cabinets with ---smurfy--- raspberry Pi installations going for thousands of dollars needs to stop. Or we see people parting out original cabinets for these pandoras/pi's/60-n-1 and trying to hawk those parts for insane prices, as if they struck gold. |
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