What's so great about Police Trainer? Should I buy it?

[knave]

A guy near me is selling a Police Trainer cab. It looks to be in good shape, he's asking $575...

I really love area 51, would it be worth it to get this until I can pick up a Area 51 PCB and hard drive? Is that a reasonable price...?

Is the game fun? I've never played it.

 

[Jeff AMN]

In my opinion Police Trainer is better than most games because you can always improve. With most light gun games you memorize the patterns very quickly, but it's going to take a long time to perfect Police Trainer.

$575 might be a tad high, but I'd think about it and maybe grab the PT2 and PT3 boards to swap in and out.

[shardian]

Police trainer is a vastly superior game to Area 51. I still fire it up occasionally in mame even though I've beat it about 1000 times between the arcade and home.

Now $575 is a high price. It would be good to know what kind of cabinet it is in. If it is in a showcase cabinet with a large monitor in very good condition, then that price somewhat justified. If it is in a junker dynamo with generic graphics, then definitely not worth much. I have seen prices at auction average between $300-$400 for a good Police Trainer.

[knave]

It is a Dynamo cab. I'm betting on a 19 inch monitor. It does look to be in pretty nice shape though.

See for yourself.  Oh and he is including two extra guns as spares.

Is $300 or $350 too low to offer? I don't want to lowball.

[shardian]

That is a nice machine, but not worth $575. $350 is not a lowball offer. It is a realistic offer in the real world, but the guy may not be in Kansas if you know what I mean.

The nice thing about that machine, is that you could move the guns to side holsters, split the monitor input cable to be the monitor for the jamma setup and a pc, and populate control panel and add mame pc into the machine. That would be a kick butt machine and economical since you would be buying the whole cab and fully functional gun game at the same time.

Oh and FYI, a police trainer board on ebay goes for about $100. So technically, you are getting a stock, no game dynamo cabinet worth no more than $200 and a $100 game. If you look at it that way you can see why $300-$350 is not a lowball.

[Malenko]

I wouldn't pay more the $400. Where are you located, if you don't want it and hes close I'll offer him $400 =)