New pacman upright $1,695.00 To good to be true ?

[rlemmon]

Hi I came across this site http://www.arcadeshop.com/games.htm selling new pacmans for  $1,695. Isn't that really cheap I have seen them at other sites http://eagled.com/originalpacman.htm   for  $2,395 or more I wander if there
to good to be true ? I was thinking of buying a refurbished one from tnt amusments for $ 1500.00 But maybe I should reconsider ,

Lemmon

[tmasman]

Strange...
These 2 sites are using the exact same picture (although 1 eliminated the background...)

arcadeshop.com:


eagled.com:

[maraxle]

A new one would be a reproduction.  I'd rather spend my money on a refurb, personally.  Or refurb one myself for a lot cheaper.

[Paladin]

Do some more looking at arcadeshop and you will find that just about every part of a Pac Man and Galaga can be bought new except the original PCB.  They just make new cabinets (for sale empty also) and put in new monitors, coin doors, switching power supply, wiring etc.. and then add an original PCB.

True it's not original, but with the exception of the PCB everything is new - not 20+ years old.  So if you just want to play the game in a sparkling new cabinet that's not likely to break down anytime soon and you have the money to spare it's not a bad idea. 

I haven't checked the prices, but I bet if you make your own cabinet, buy a PCB off ebay and buy all the rest of the parts from arcadeshop it will end up cheaper than 1,695.

[SirPeale]

I had an entire reply all typed out with an approx. figure (which was $1,016) for the parts involved to make a 'new' Pac-Man style cabinet, painted, with all the parts, NOT including the PCB.  But I've been having trouble posting lately while Bit Torrent is running.  So I quit it, and it still didn't post.  Weird.

Anyway, the figure isn't terribly out of line.

[paigeoliver]

If I was in the market to drop that kind of coin on a Pac-Game then I would buy the repro cabinet, but I would want to see it in person first. I have seen some repro cabinets that were terrible in quality. Someone keeps hauling these "Multicades" in repro Galaga cabinets up to the St. Louis superauctions, but they have plastic control panels (I saw one of them that had the control panel go from brand new, to broken with the overlay ruined in about 2 hours at the auction), and the repro cabinets were just slightly too wide, and the marquee and bezel didn't reach the sides, looked awful.