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RandyT:

Worse yet.....

http://g4tv.com/videos/43819/human-wrecking-balls---arcade-armageddon/

Human --bags of cream-filled twinkies--, more like.

CheffoJeffo:
Wasn't that picture, as featured on the Time site, already deemed Photoshopped ?

And, yeah, the human wrecking balls are --bags of cream-filled twinkies--, but I wouldn't lose sleep if they came to Toronto and killed some of the Big Buck Hunter 33" showcase cabs that plague us.

DillonFoulds:
HAH. I'm in Alberta, brosef. Our idea of arcades are big buck hunter, big buck hunter II (which both attract swarms of people) and a variation of a Golden Tee (which sees next to no play always). That's it. MAYBE a pin if we're lucky. The biggest theatre in my city has an ultracade, that sees also next to no play (and it's beside the only DDR machine in the city, so it's always overcrowded by 12 year old girls to play me some Bust-A-Move. Sometimes if the Girlfriend and I catch a late flick, and they haven't turned the ultracade off by the time the movie's out, I'll be lucky to get a few rounds in, but that's it.
DashRendar:
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?)
RandyT:

--- Quote from: DashRendar on February 19, 2010, 12:02:56 pm ---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 ---

I think it's highly unlikely.  The old bubblers are in a different class from a painted plywood box.  The more common arcade cabinets will continue to be cherished by those who collect them, but the intrinsic value will probably be low until they are 100 years old.  It's already been 30 years, and most, with a few exceptions, are still moving at scrap value.

Which is why you see idiots smashing them for "fun".

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