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Author Topic: Midway classics cab for $450 (free shipping)  (Read 3420 times)

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Midway classics cab for $450 (free shipping)
« on: March 04, 2006, 05:02:16 am »
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=42600&cat=CON

Looks like the same one going for $500 at target.  $50 cheaper (and no tax except in Jersey) and delivered to your door.  Pretty sweet deal for anyone who wants a ready-to-go cabinet.
« Last Edit: March 06, 2006, 04:21:41 am by Samstag »

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Re: Midway classics cab for $450 (free shipping)
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2006, 10:34:07 am »
Ugh - I guess I'm spoiled, but I saw that thing in Target and it was awful.  The screen was teency and fuzzy, and everything about it felt really cheap.  The impression I got was that it wasn't made out of much more than cardboard box material.

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Re: Midway classics cab for $450 (free shipping)
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2006, 11:46:22 am »
I thought the actual price at Target was under $500.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=42600&cat=CON

Looks like the same one going for $500 at target.  $50 cheaper (and no tax except in Jersey) and delivered to your door.  Pretty sweet deal for anyone who wants a ready-to-go cabinet.
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Re: Midway classics cab for $450 (free shipping)
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2006, 01:39:22 pm »
Target version

I've never seen it in action but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not high quality.  Most products of quality don't show up on geeks.com, but they're starting to get better.

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Re: Midway classics cab for $450 (free shipping)
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2006, 01:42:00 pm »
Here's the Retrobast review:
http://retroblast.com/reviews/biggames.html

Summary: it's a big pile of shite.

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Re: Midway classics cab for $450 (free shipping)
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2006, 01:55:15 pm »
I've just seen one of these things that some lame brain imported into the UK..... YEUGHHHH!!!!  :-\  And he even paid $350 to have it shipped. On top of that he's having to run it on a transformer that cost him
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Re: Midway classics cab for $450 (free shipping)
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2006, 11:12:18 am »
Seen one, tried it.

It's crap.  Complete and utter crap.  The joystick actually feels WORSE then one of the Jakk's plug into the tv thing...that should be the only thing you need to know.

And it's made out of some kind of 1/4 or 1/2 inch plastic...crap.

It's even worse then you think it is. :)

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Re: Midway classics cab for $450 (free shipping)
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2006, 02:12:10 pm »
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=42600&cat=CON

Looks like the same one going for $500 at target.  $50 cheaper (and no tax except in Jersey) and delivered to your door.  Pretty sweet deal for anyone who wants a ready-to-go cabinet.

No, it's not a pretty sweet deal for a ready to go cabinet. It is a rip off of a deal on a piece of crap cabinet.

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Re: Midway classics cab for $450 (free shipping)
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2006, 03:39:21 pm »
for the screen you can get a remote from the manufacturer to help with the screen.

though you can buy a cab and add a pc for like 200 or less.
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Re: Midway classics cab for $450 (free shipping)
« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2006, 11:27:55 pm »
it's kind of like how department stores don't sell bikes...they just sell things that look like bikes...

target doesn't sell arcade cabinets...they just sell things that look like arcade cabinets...