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| spacies:
Heh, I was watching the warehouse raid video again and was over excited. My workshop looked that that picture once. Now it is over run with old junkers and the good ones cant be seen. You got your own machine up and running? I built myself a Donkey Kong upright to MAME and 'try' to get it in the house, but I keep changing stuff so it may be a while before its done. I am delivering a couple of machines to AKL at the end of the month so I should call in then? Are you a Chef? Man, thats some nice grub on your site. I bookmarked it and will show my lady when she gets home. It was her New Years resolution to cook nicer food so I ain't complaining! I am in Wanganui at present but we plan to move North in a few months time. Hopefully find a house with a HUGE shed. If you ever pass through here drop me a line. Better not Hijack this thread anymore. I'll add you to my MSN and organize something through there ok? |
| Apollo:
Yeah add me that would be cool |
| paigeoliver:
The "game sitting by the dumpster, took it home and fixed it right away" thing did happen to me once, except I didn't take the cabinet. The cabinet was water damaged so I stripped the cabinet on the spot and took all the parts, and transplanted them into an empty cabinet that I already had (of the same type). Only problem any of the parts had was the monitor neckboard was cracked and took several SECONDS of soldering to repair. It was a "Top Gunner" in a Ms. Pac cabinet. I transplanted it into a former Galaxian cabinet. |
| Wade:
Okay, I'll brag. Last year I bought from a church (who bought a Putt Putt that went out of business) a Silent Scope Dark Silhouette and a Maximum Force for $400 total. I sold parts from the MF for $200, and sold the Silent Scope for $1250 (and that was my "get it out of here this week!" price!) I took the $1450 and spent $750 in trading for the 3 classics in the main thread called "Name these games:" - A Burgertime, a Crystal Castles, and a widebody Mario Brothers, all in pretty nice condition. Then, I found a tax sticker after getting the BT home that it came from a local arcade in 1983 that I had hung out at when I was a kid. The seller and I didn't even know it!! The game had been around a lot since then, as the arcade had been closed for at least 20 years, but I just thought that was the coolest thing - That was the best surprise of the whole deal. So basically, I got some nice must-have classics for my gameroom essentially for free, and pocketed several hundred bucks. :) Wade |
| Crowquill:
--- Quote from: Wade on March 11, 2007, 10:04:21 pm ---Okay, I'll brag. Last year I bought from a church (who bought a Putt Putt that went out of business) a Silent Scope Dark Silhouette and a Maximum Force for $400 total. I sold parts from the MF for $200, and sold the Silent Scope for $1250 (and that was my "get it out of here this week!" price!) --- End quote --- So you bought 2 games where you violently kill people from the church. Oh, sweet irony. Most of my best finds have been computer equipment from thrift stores. I've gotten 2 different Dell 21" trinitron monitors for $20 and $25. One is in my MAME cab. The old celeron 700mHz computer that'll power my cocktail I'm building was $10. I've only seen one arcade item at all the thrift stores I hit. It was a green JAMMA Cool Spot cab that sold for $50 an hour before I got there. :( Back in '94 I bought my non-working Crazy Kong cab at an auction for $12. It took $30 in power supply parts to get it working and find out it had a Donkey KING Jr. PCB in it. It's now my MAME cab. I'm keeping an eye out now for a cheap Nintendo cab to put the bootleg PCB in. |
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