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| Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: RandyT on February 18, 2010, 06:18:43 pm --- Worse yet..... http://g4tv.com/videos/43819/human-wrecking-balls---arcade-armageddon/ Human --bags of cream-filled twinkies--, more like. --- End quote --- I saw that episode on tv, the games were all PsOS. The pinball games looked like the were just shells filled with old computer parts and covered in glass. They didn't even bother to try and pretend they were real pinball machines by adding cheap grapgics. |
| ark_ader:
--- Quote from: DashRendar on February 19, 2010, 12:02:56 pm ---Well, I wonder if these will eventually become true collector's items. Right now they're still common enough where they're not *that* rare. But as time goes on, they're disappearing (fires, people scrapping them, people hacking them up for bad MAME conversions, etc). There's not as much demand for something like this now due to home consoles as well. But in 10 or 20 years, will their value rise? Finding a Dragons Lair cab now for $500 is one thing, but how much will that same cab cost in the future? Will it be something like a 1940s Wurlitzer Bubbler Jukebox that originally cost $800, but now costs $8000 due to how rare they've become? (And even though we have iPods which are cheaper and easier to find?) --- End quote --- You can always find a restorer for any item. Heck I tend to visit the local furniture restorer because of the old and rare items he stocks I cannot find anywhere else. You want a Dragon's Lair cab in 20 years? - no problem as the cabinet designs will always be available (granted that wood being still around), just the internals will be different. Two years ago prices of cabs were a lot different to what they are now. But valuable in the future? - don't bet on it. |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on February 19, 2010, 06:16:05 pm ---I saw that episode on tv, the games were all PsOS. The pinball games looked like the were just shells filled with old computer parts and covered in glass. They didn't even bother to try and pretend they were real pinball machines by adding cheap grapgics. --- End quote --- I noticed that as well. They weren't so kind to the video side though. The Scramble cabinet was actually running and looked to be in good shape. There were others that were functional as well. It's also bad in that it promotes the idea that the old games are junk and smashing them like that is okay. Bad for everyone. |
| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: RandyT on February 20, 2010, 04:53:35 pm ---It's also bad in that it promotes the idea that the old games are junk and smashing them like that is okay. Bad for everyone. --- End quote --- You know, I've argued before on behalf of collectors who have smashed up cabinets (or burnt them, or towed them behind cars, etc.) because they couldn't even give them away ... and I still think that is OK, but after Randy's post, I am rethinking my prior position that it was OK for Todd Tuckey to show cabinets (which were utter junk) being tossed off the roof in his commercials. |
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