Columbus Ohio 11/6

[blacktiger]

Anyone going this weekend?

[Lilwolf]

I would like to... But I don't think I will be able too.  Have too many things going around the house.

[betacrash]

I live in Cincinnati. What is going on theis weekend? -betacrash

[Raleigh]

I live in Cincinnati. What is going on theis weekend? -betacrash

Arcade auction.  I should be there, the only questions is how much money the wife will let me bring.

[Lilwolf]

Hey, I think I'm going to go..
but now I can't find the URL for directions / times.

Anyone have it handy?

Thanks

[quarterback]

Hey, I think I'm going to go..
but now I can't find the URL for directions / times.

Anyone have it handy?

Thanks

http://www.usamusement.com/columbus_map.html

[blacktiger]

Hey, if anyone wants to meet up at the auction we can do so.  I should have an orange hat with a Clemson University tiger paw on it and probably an orange Clemson shirt on.   If anyone here is going, what if anything are you bringing?

[ratabase1]

So how was the Columbus auction?  Does anybody have prices from it?

[quarterback]

I was there and it was my first auction.  I met "blacktiger" there strictly based on his description.  He was indeed wearing an orange hat.

I ended up buying a non-working "Main Event" cab with some water damage for $20 and paid 'blacktiger' to help me move it and get it back to my house  (Thanks again Mike and I hope my directions got you back to the auction)

I was there from 9:30-6pm and there were still two rows of stuff to go through.  One row of 25" cabs and 1/2 row of the sit-down-games (what are they called again?) and 1/2 row of pinball

Overall prices?  I had started taking notes but lost that battle.  I went there looking for a cab to Mame-out.  After missing the first non-working $20 cab (the very first cab auctioned off) they went through a bunch of working ones that all seemed to go for over $100 so I tuned out.  

I'm a little upset I didn't buy a "breathalizer" machine for $1.  They sold the first one for $10 but without a truck (and being tired already) I didn't jump on the 2nd one which they gavea away for a buck.

The only other thing I was looking at went early with the 'parts', and that was a box full of control panels.  There was a Tron in there along with some big 4-player CP and some other smaller parts.  The box full went for $100 or $125 I think.

Beyond that it was a blur.  I had been up late the night before so I was tired when I got there.  Add on another 3 or 4 hours before they even got to the first cabinets and I was already bleary eyed.

Oh, there was some HUGE rear-projection TV that went for $30 I think.  They said it had powered up earlier but it wasn't coming up at that point and was really freakin' big.  I mean, it was longer than I am tall, I swear it was almost 6 feet wide.  

Oh yeah, I also should have bid up on a Xevious that went for $55 (I think)  It wasn't "working" when the bidding came around, but I *swear* it had been working earlier.  When they were auctioning it I thought it must be a different machine, but later I came to the conclusion that it was the same one.  

So, all in all I did what a lot of people probably do at their 1st auction... I missed the boat on a couple things that I'm now wishing I had bought.  Oh well

[paigeoliver]

You can never make the boat on everything. If I had made the boat on everything at the last auction alone then I would have 10 or 15 more machines!

[acasualtourist]

I have the prices of the first 50 or so cabinets, including all the cocktails, If you want to know specifics.  Nerd-core to the rescue!!    If i only had a bigger wallet and a bigger house...  Oh yeah, orange might be an understatement.. and that Xevious cabinet went for $45!  I'm kicking myself about that one also...I'm with you that it had worked earlier. OK, It's late and I'm becoming incoherant....

[betacrash]

I was at the auction too. I was there from beginning to end. 10a to 10p. My feet were tired. I didnt buy anything which is good since I probably bought too much at the last auction. My brother ended up with two nice Neo Geo cabs for cheap. I was the only guy at the auction wearing a gay looking sky blue shirt that said something about banana hammocks. -betacrash

[paigeoliver]

Xevious really isn't that great of a game. I like the similar (but relatively unknown) game Megazone.

[Lilwolf]

I was going to go... but I had too much to do... And no room for another cab right now....

The big question... and too afraid to ask.  Whats the chance there was a gauntlet cab with good sideart?

I would have JUMPED on a breatholizer!  GREAT drinking game!

Could I trouble with someone with a post of all the prices?  I would love to see what I missed to see if it might be worth going to the next one.

Also, the control panels I would have jumped on... But that would probably have pissed my wife off...

[blacktiger]

I bought a Double Dragon Taito cab for 20$.  Had no board in it but when I got home and powered it up with a board, it works.  I have to flip the yoke around cause it is backwards but other than that, it is in great shape.

Auction lasted a long time.  3 hrs of crap to sell --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type-- they got to the games.

[quarterback]

My brother ended up with two nice Neo Geo cabs for cheap.

How much were they? I left before they got to that row but I had been eyeing them

[betacrash]

He got two perfectly clean cabs. 1 was a Street Fighter II and the other was a Raystorm. Both are in NeoGeo style cabs. They were about $120 each. I do know that there was one in the same row that was a Neo Geo dual slot with Metal Slug was in one of the slots, It did not fire up so it went for $6?   I believe that the guy got it started up right after that. -betacrash

[blacktiger]

Wow, what a great deal.  I saw the metal slug playing during the day.  I guess it pays to wait till the end of the auction.

[paigeoliver]

Wow, what a great deal.  I saw the metal slug playing during the day.  I guess it pays to wait till the end of the auction.

I almost always stay till the end, although I must admit sometimes I get nervous. At the last auction I decided on a 4 Player Pong (Pro Tennis). Unfortunately that sucker was the last one of the working uprights, and the other was a bad Gals Panic conversion that I would not have wanted.

I waited like 6 or 7 hours and I got my Pong for only $50. Had I lost that one I would have either been stuck buying a cocktail (those hadn't been auctioned yet), or something off the dead row.