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patrickl:
The trouble is that the idea of "collectable" will change over age.
paigeoliver:
I severely doubt that pre-"Cherry Master" video gambling and video trivia stuff will ever really be collectable.

Their are multiple reasons.

The first is the most important one. The new video trivia and gambling machines play the EXACT same stuff as the old ones, but with better graphics. The newer stuff is simply a superior product to the older stuff. There is no magic "gameplay" hidden in the older machines. Matter of fact, the newer machines have better gameplay than the older ones.

Second issue. The build quaulity of a lot of that stuff i junk. It breaks down, very little documentation is available, as many of this stuff was grey market stuff, made by long defunct companies, and it came with little more than an instruction sheet.

Third issue. The older trivia machines are VERY DATED in their questions. They ask a lot of stuff that you barely would have known the answer to in 1985, much less now.
Wade:
Well, I'm definitely in the minority here, but if he wants to Mame it and sell the parts to pay for it then let him do it.

It is a well known and easily proven fact that MOST video games are worth more when parted out, even if working.  That game is working but it had heavy burn in the monitor and the cabinet is in relatively poor condition.  IMO it won't fetch as much money as a lot of you seem to think.  If he really "restores" it he is going to put a lot of time and money into it.  Also, parting a machine isn't always a bad thing... one parted machine might make 3 or 4 other broken Centipedes get repaired!

That said, it is in good enough condition (the sides aren't painted over) and working so he could easily sell it and pay for a generic cab plus plenty of extra parts (nice big monitor, a new PC, etc.)  That is what I'd recommend doing and this is what would probably please the most people on this forum.

All this talk about what's "right" and what's wrong to do with a cabinet... But if he wants to do something else, it isn't "right" to rip him a new one just because he has different priorities.  To each his own, there are all different types in this hobby (I personally know a lot of people who have no interest in Mame machines at all, they are only interested in original classic games).

Wade
Yander:
I agree with you to some extent but if he is asking what to do I would tell him to restore it. It is sad to see a classic have a huge monitor, covered sideart, and a control panel with 300 buttons, 6 joysticks, 2 spinners, 3 trackballs, and blinking lights.
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