Anybody Going To California Extreme in San Jose?

[jimjim]

I was just curious if anybody was going to this.

Here's the website: http://www.caextreme.org/

Superauctions is going to be there too.

[Kremmit]

Yup. 

[Dervacumen]

I'll be wearing my Donkey Kong shirt.
Not sure if I'm going Saturday or Sunday.  I'd like to go Sunday for the auction, but Saturday is more likely.
Do you think the "buy it now prices" at the Saturday auction site will be decent?
I've never been to a "buy it now" auction.

[solderguy1]

I'll be there, hoping to buy my second pinball (got Twilight Zone there last year).  As for Superauctions, there's people on Usenet that really badmouth them (what doesn't get badmouthed on Usenet though?).  The rule of thumb is to add 20% to the winning bid because of auction fees and Ca sales tax.  Also the owners may be bidding on their own systems to raise the price. 

[Kremmit]

 

The guys that were supposed to go with me to CAX have flaked and I'm not going now. 

 

 

[Lucky S.O.B.]

Kremmit did you really need more arcade games and parts?

I wish I knew about this earlier... I would have drove from SD.

[Kremmit]

Kremmit did you really need more arcade games and parts?

I wish I knew about this earlier... I would have drove from SD.

Need more- heck no.  I just wanted to go and play.  It's a helluva show.  Oh, well, I'll probably make it again next year.

You'se guyse that are there right now, hurry up and get back online and tell us how the show is this year- what are we missing?

[solderguy1]

Well, I'm taking a break from the show, will go back tonight.  Lots of vids in both the show and the Superauctions room.  The Superauctions website said Saturday was a chance to do Buy-it-now instead of waiting for the auction, but the stickers only listed the item #, no pricing, don't know what that's about.  Played Tron for the first time, now I know why so many of you want a spinner/topfire pair, fun game.

Not too many pins for sale which is a bummer for me.  The only one slightly interesting was a $2k Funhouse but it has some playfield and backglass wear.

Attended a nice lecture on pinball repair.  The guy said you should consider a pin as a collection of switches that feed into a computer.  The computer drives lamps, solenoids, and the display based on what the switches tells it.  Thought it was a slick way of looking at it.

Don't know what else to say, basically a dark room full of geeks.

[jimjim]

Went with board member Circo yesterday, and really had a great time.  I got to play some games and pinball machines that I never had a chance to play or see.

I was disappointed in the Superauction part.  We got there late, and either they did not have a lot of good quality games, or the good ones had been sold in the morning and we just saw the pick overs.  They looked like project games.  I do know some people pick up some of their machines and left, I just don't know how many.  I asked a Superauction employee about this and didn't get a clear answer.  Circo did pick up a Japanese Pachinko game with a Thunderbirds theme.

I really dug all the pins.  Medieval Madness, Simpson's party, Revenge From Mars, Spider-man,... also had a great time playing cocktail Warlords.  A game that most people can't play in Mame because of the 4 spinner aspect.

There also was a game that was made in the 70's that was a Foosball/Pong variant.  It brought back memories on how simple graphic games were actually fun.

I also think the topper was an 80's karaoke machine that was showing and blasting Rush, Van Halen, Corey Hart videos on 4 linked monitors in the middle of the convention.  This completed the atmosphere.