Minnesota MOMA auction- Oct. 22

[APFelon]

Date:
   Saturday, October 22, 2005
Time:
   10:30 AM
Preview:
   8:30 AM Sale Day
Address:
   8769 Jefferson Hwy.,  Maple Grove, MN
   



WOW is right. Last year the selection pretty much sucked, but the previous years were pretty good. I am optomistic for this year, but not OVERLY optomistic.

Anyone going?

APf

[Rook3]

Don't know if I can make it, but our company is bringing 35 games.

I don't recall what all will be there, but I know there's a Soul Edge in there.
Expect the usual assortment of near classics and jamma junk. All working of course.

Russ

[APFelon]

Interesting. Who do you work for? I used to work for AAA / Lieberman music for eight years (left in 1999) and it's always nice to bump in to a local industry guy online.

APf

[Rook3]

I've been working for Northern Amusement since 1997 or so. Worked for Danco before that, prior to when they retired and sold off all the companies assets to Chuckie Cheese.

Russ

[APFelon]

That's interesting.

Danco and AAA were merged under the name of... well, AAA until the split. We went to Bloomington, and Dan, Norm and Amos stuck in Golden Valley.

I was good friends of Fred until he passed (prize counter guy).

The only Russ I remember is Russ Bayer, and I spoke to him recently. He made fun of me for having all of those "antique arcade games" in my basement, so I doubt that that is you. Haha.

Ah, well. Here's to the old days.

If you do manage to make your way out to the auction, I will be the guy in a black leather jacket with a 5 year old boy in tow (my son, who loves this hobby just as much as I do). Say hello and we can share Dan, Amos and Norm stories... I have a great one about Freddie, too.

Take care.

APf / Jon

[Rook3]

The only Russ I remember is Russ Bayer, and I spoke to him recently. He made fun of me for having all of those "antique arcade games" in my basement, so I doubt that that is you. Haha.

Nope, not me. I didn't have much contact with the Metro business aside from Joe in the service department. And occasionally Norm when there was a bookeeping question.

Ernie (I think that's his name) who sold used equipment for Danco actually works for Lieb's now.  He went to work for them in sales after Danco shut down.

I can't recall as it's been so long... who was the route manager? The guy who went out to all the "far flung provinces" and chewed out the arcade location managers when they needed it? He went to work for CECheese as a game technician. He was taking a pay cut but was glad for the reduction is stress. Pretty decent guy overall.

Russ

[APFelon]

Ah, were you the Bimidji Piccidilly guy (I think it may have been called something else out there...?)

Yeah, I know Ernie... and that's all I have to say about that. He jacked me on a full sized Ninja Warriors cab and I'm still pissed. Hah.

Ed Philips was the arcade route guy. Great guy, I went to work for him part time at CEC for a while.  He left CEC shortly after I did (2001-ish) and now does stuff with Joe Leis (the service department guy) now. Joe, last time I checked, runs "Liesure-man Entertainment" or some such, http://www.leisure-man.com/index.html a place that he operates out of his pole barn in Zimmerman. Something tells me I will see both of these guys at the auction. I'll give them a hello from you if you wish.

Peace

APf

[Rook3]

Yep, that was me in Bemidji. Or rather, still is.

Ed! Now why couldn't I remember his name? Good guy. I always liked dealing with Joe too. Traded Joe a working DK boardset for some system 1 stuff he had. I ended up selling my Indiana Jones and I still regret doing that.

Ernie irritated me because we had a distinctly different view about pinball machines in the arcade. I wanted them. He sold them out of my arcade because he got some large commission for each one he sold. Oh well, a guy's got to make a living I guess.

Russ

[TheOtherBob]

I ended up selling my Indiana Jones and I still regret doing that.

Dang, I'm trying to find one in good shape in MN... if you ever come across one I'd be interested in buying it... that is if you didn't already buy it for yourself...

[Rook3]

he he he... of all the games I've ever sold, I only regret 3 of them. My Asteroids, Tron and Indiana Jones. I miss Tron more than the Asteroids or IJ, and now that you can actually get replacement side/CP artwork... well, that makes the pain greater.

If I ever run across another IJ without a home, I'll let ya know.

Russ

[TheOtherBob]

Thanks, I'd appreciate that.....

[APFelon]

Holy crap, what a  debacle.

JAMMA garbage that should have been thrown in to a dumpster was going for ~400. A ROAD RAGE 4WD went for 475$ at the beginning of the auction. Wonderboy went for around 300$. I couldn't believe it.

Most of the cabs looked as though they were beat to hell by a team of professionals. Some had burn SO BAD, you could see at LEAST three games burned in to the monitor.

Funny event of the day: There was an old Ninja Warriors or Darius cabinet with a 25" monitor hacked in to it. It had Rampage World Tour playing on it. I mean, this was a real chop job. I told my son, laughing, that it used to be a old Taito game. The CDL guy playing it turned to me and said, "No, this is the original cabinet for Rampage World Tour".

I didn't know Midway used crummy artstore cardboard for bezels and jammed monitors into cabinets that clearly didn't fit. You learn something new every day.

A few other points of note:

A Race Drivin' cab with a Cruisin USA hacked in to it

A dedicated Tapper machine (Rail still intact, artwork NICE! with Tetris hacked in to it

A Gauntlet with a Simpsons hacked in to it

A dedicated Q*Bert, went high (600$ I think...) considering its shape

CRANE ATTACK! More cranes than usual

A Star Trek cabinet with some dog hacked in to it

Dedicated MKII, went low (~300$ I THINK)

I left after 35 minutes. Was gunna be no sunshine in that room today.

Mindboggling. I keep hearing that the bottom is falling out of the home arcade business... Not here in Minnesota. Haul your garbage up this way and you'll find plenty of suckers.

APf

[TheOtherBob]

Too bad... thanks for updating us "no shows" tho!

[Rook3]

Yeah, a WTF auction to be sure. I didn't go but a buddy of mine said some cruddy gun game... Mechanized attack? Op Wolf? Whichever it was, it sold for up around a grand! Damn! I would't pay $150 for those games myself! Somone with too much money and lots of storage space apparently. 

Russ