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Any experience with 'Honest Pierre's' in MD?
« on: December 20, 2007, 08:46:07 am »
Anyone had any experience with Honest Pierre's Games and Collectibles in Columbia, Maryland? I just saw small signs on the road in the way to work today and checked their website (http://www.honestpierres.com/shop.html) which is sparse.  Wanted to find out if anyone's dealt with them before prior to finding out what they had, etc.  Would basically be looking for a cabinet only or something lower price.
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Re: Any experience with 'Honest Pierre's' in MD?
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2007, 01:16:53 pm »
http://www.honestpierres.com/games2.html

are those MAME machines I see for sale?


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We are a factory distributor for these games and include a 1 year in-home warranty for our local customers.

"factory distributor".....riiight
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Re: Any experience with 'Honest Pierre's' in MD?
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2007, 01:22:20 pm »
I dunno... but that 2 Player control panel looks totally unplayable for unlucky Player 2. Buttons to the left of the joystick?!  :banghead:
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Re: Any experience with 'Honest Pierre's' in MD?
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2007, 01:49:54 pm »
Any business that's got "Honest" in their name, usually isn't.
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Re: Any experience with 'Honest Pierre's' in MD?
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2007, 01:59:05 pm »
Act labs light gun.  Hmmm, i'm going to have to say yeah........ it's some sort of emulation.  Check out the front end.
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Re: Any experience with 'Honest Pierre's' in MD?
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2007, 06:14:12 pm »
Quote from: LeedsFan on December 20, 2007, 01:22:20 pm
I dunno... but that 2 Player control panel looks totally unplayable for unlucky Player 2. Buttons to the left of the joystick?!  :banghead:

That's what I noticed too.  Thought I was seeing things for a minute...  I'd stay away from them and woudl take down all their signs for probably operating illegally.  heh.  Or go write "DIS" in front of all their names.
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Re: Any experience with 'Honest Pierre's' in MD?
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2007, 06:17:36 pm »
Quote from: JimmyU on December 20, 2007, 01:49:54 pm
Any business that's got "Honest" in their name, usually isn't.

What do you mean, Honest Joes repair shop always does my $95 oil changes so well.
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Re: Any experience with 'Honest Pierre's' in MD?
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2007, 08:31:05 pm »
Hehe...ok ok...just wanted to check if anyone was familiar with it  :dunno. 

Now I saved time visiting to find out it was crappy! ;)
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Re: Any experience with 'Honest Pierre's' in MD?
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2007, 09:10:03 pm »
I saw that smaller game they're selling (the bartop/pedestal one) at a game show and actually thought it was kind of slick. I wouldn't buy it, but I wouldn't mind copying it!  ;)
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Re: Any experience with 'Honest Pierre's' in MD?
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2007, 10:56:12 pm »
Looks like from the list on the screen of the games and the description hes selling put together cabs with those illegal multicade boards. I don't see it being anywhere near worth 1900 bucks myself. Even the guys on ebay that are pullin this fast one are not charging that much.
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Re: Any experience with 'Honest Pierre's' in MD?
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2007, 11:34:08 pm »
Necro,
  You mentioned that you just wanted the cabinet or something cheap.  I live in Columbia also and built mine myself.  A few sheets of wood from the home depot, a few power tools and couple of weekends was all that was required.  It was fun and I have the satisfaction of knowing that I built it myself.  I live in a townhouse with no real work area so I built it on my front sidewalk.  It turned into a communit project after a while with the neighbors asking how progress was going  :)
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