My first real Cab pick up, Nintendo DK restore.

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paigeoliver:
It isn't worth restoring. Nintendo cabinets have probably peaked in value right now, their price has long been connected to the general value of Nes console games, which has been flat the past year and a half after quadrupling over the previous decade. Other demand, home users, probably peak as well, since your average kong player is going to be 50 years old now. Finally, barcades are probably also at close to their peak. Not to mention the fact that people are still deconverting these and even building brand new ones.

Meanwhile, Street Fighter 2 has been going up in demand and value every year. And even though I am not a huge fan of the genre, it is way more of a crowd pleaser than Kong is. You are never going to spend an entire evening with one of your friends just playing Donkey Kong, but you might with Street Fighter.

I priced it out at Mikesarcade. You are at $600 to turn this game back, not counting any possible monitor and power supply problems that the cabinet might already have.

Locke141:
Thanks Page,

This is not going to be a KLOV quality restore. My original plan was to clean it up, sell the SF2 board and make it MAME or Pandoras box5 and give it to my Dads Elks lodge, for there members game room. I would be happy to make the paint look on point, add white T molding, adding reusable repo side art/CP/marquee/Beze and maybe adding an original part here or there if I snack somthing on eBay on the cheep.

Deftly going to use modern built 4way controls (something like Pac-Pro Leaf), MAME with a bunch of game that will play with the CP it has (like PacMan). It's probably still going to live in an Elks lodge members game room so resale is not the goal.

That just my thinking now. I may just clean it up a bit and try to resell to some one who wants to do a full restore and just start looking for the kind of 90's cab I was originally looking for.

Thanks Crowquill,

I will be carful and will ask for help as I go.

Howard_Casto:
My 2 cents: (Brace yourselves as some of you might die from shock.) Imho Nintendo arcade games suck. Dk will only distract you for 5 min at best as would other arcade titles like popeye ect. Punchout and arm wrestling aren't very good either. The only Ones that are any good are the VS and playchoice machines and you are really just playing NES with those. Even taking that out of the equation I'm not super fond of the Nintendo joysticks. YMMV though.

Locke141:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on August 23, 2018, 12:52:12 pm --- Even taking that out of the equation I'm not super fond of the Nintendo joysticks. YMMV though.

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The original cab's looked nice. I'm shooting for original look but with a vertical, 4way, one or less button MAME powered Arcade classics game list in side.

Again I need to research. I don't do this stuff to make money. I do it because I love the proses. If I can do something I'll be proud of, at a price I can live with I'll do it. If not, I'll just list it.

Howard_Casto:
Yeah sorry about that. I think we posted at the same time.

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