Super Auctions Atlanta -w- MYX Report

[arzoo]

the last is something I learned this time. If you choose not to use the auction moving service, and care about your games and you are going to load them your self... 1. loading 7 games and a pinball machine and a coin changer onto a truck in 100 degree sun not only sux, but takes a long time. 2. Big games are heavy. 3. The bigger the game the heavier it is going to be. 4. If you want a big game, it will weigh more than a smaller game. 5. Gravity sux. 6. I DO NOT like hot. 7. The farther you have to carry a game (especially a big game) the heavier it will become over a given distance. 8. The guy at the door, making sure that you have to put down that heavy game, ruining any momentum you might have achieved, is there only make sure that you have to put down that heavy game, ruining any momentum you might have achieved, not to make sure you are not stealing anything. Who in their right mind would steal a 20 ton Virtua Fighter game.

Add two more and we'll have the 10 commandments of video game moving!

[ArtMAME]

Who in their right mind would steal a 20 ton Virtua Fighter game.

Probably several members on this board  ... but then again, who on this forum is in their right mind anyway? 

[ostrich99]

All,

I was one of the bigger guys running around with a video camera and a microphone filming the auction.

I think I only met one of the BYOAC guys there, I beleive it was MYX.  We did mostly filming and I bought one of the 27" Billabs monitors that the vendor had there for my MAME cabinet.  This monitor is friggen sweet.  More on that in another thread later.  I brought my neighbor and his brother-in-law with me.  Neighbor bought one of the nicer Golden Tee's and an NBA Jam Tournament Edition.  Probably going to turn the NBA Jam into a MAME machine with a J-PAC I have.   My neighbors brother-in-law got caught up in the bidding on one of those Ms. Pac Cabaret cabinet ones.   He paid $550 for the one that was painted over in black cuz he didn't like the original woodgrain.  Oh well, at least his wife liked the machine. 

There will be video from the auction on the next Pins and Vids video.  (Check out www.pinsandvids.com for Volume I)

We hope to have Volume II out in October.  All money (not just the profit) goes to the Pinball Hall of Fame.

Check out the first volume as there are some pretty neat video things on there.  An interview with someone who has a Screw Loose video game (A gottlieb that was never produced),  Mark Davidisons Portable (ie: suitcase) Jamma board tester, etc.

Also an interview with Jeff Anderson of Videotopia fame.

Ostrich99

[ChadTower]

"put the game down"?

What, were you carrying these things around?  Games are easy to move on flat ground.  With even a crappy hand truck a single average strength person shouldn't have much trouble.

I'll throw some hatred down for Uhaul too.  I've had multiple terrible experiences with them.  Now I just rent trucks or vans from Enterprise.  Pristine customer service.

[MYX]

A dynamo with a hand truck is still REALLY heavy. Plus the concrete outside of the hall was not even. Lots o bumps which would cause a good rolling machine on a dime sending it about 3 inches into your chest. Oooooh the pain.

[ChadTower]

Uneven concrete can make it annoying but not much harder.  I know guys who are 140lb that have no trouble moving full sized Ataris or Dynamos around. 

[MYX]

Well then they are cool then huh? I was not ever the guy in gym class lifting the stack of weights. I was the nerd guy straining to do the chin up. Hence why I am an arcade nerd and find lifting Dynamo's a little intense. But hey I am not ripped like Saint. That guy lifted Art's cabinet into his car without a lift or dolly. Just grabbed the thing and yelled somehting I did not understand and Just lifted the dang thing, turned it sideways and set it gently into his truck .   

[97thruhiker]

Thanks for the write-up  .