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I need rehab.......I just bought this....Missile Command Cabaret
Mauzy:
I wish I had the patience to travel that long for a cab. There have been several 200 miles away that were games that I love, but I didnt want the drive...
Also wish I could afford that trip. My Cherokee loaded down isn't the most fuel efficient Jeep out there...
The marquee below the monitor always freaks me out of that style of cab...
Level42:
--- Quote from: JeepMonkey on June 24, 2008, 09:06:36 am ---15 hours away :dizzy:. You must really like that game.
How much will this cost you in gas? How many countries to you travel through?
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Well it's 7,5 hours away, will have to return home again too. I guess we may make it "a weekend out" :)
Will drive through two counties only, Holland and Germany. Germany is a pretty big country (for Euro standards :)).
Gas cost won't be much. (Check out the thread about all that in Everything else). In short: I have a company car. I can drive for "free" in it for private use. It's like a extra salary. Thus I also have to pay tax over it. But gas that I get in Holland is "free" for me. And since I've got a Diesel, I can fill it up on the Dutch border, and (if I drive a bit steady, which is hard because Germany doesn't have a speed limit on the motorways :D) I should be able to drive about 900 km's on a tank of 50 liters. My car is very fuel efficient. That will almost take me to the place where it is and back to the border.....so no it won't cost me a lot of gas.
Of course this is an insane trip and normally I wouldn't do it if I had to pay the gas (would be a lot more than the cab cost: €101,-)
Shardian: remember the Euro situation. I've never seen an upright MC around here. Never. This is the third cabaret I've seen in Germany within a couple of months. One was already sold (the one I played when I picked up the Meteor). One I missed on E-bay. That one was fully working and went for €153,- and was just across the border (about 2 hours drive one way). I was really :censored: that I missed that one.
Anyway, we can't be too picky. Also, I didn't have a cabaret in my collection yet :)
Missile Command is one of the games I absolutely loved on the Atari 8-bit series. I've learned that the original arcade versions are always a LOT better than the home versions (although I think the 8-bit is almost 1:1)
The cabaret will fit easily in my stationcar. I've transported full size cabs in it without much problems (only the SI required me to leave the backdoor open partly).
Also, I'm used to do plenty of driving. Sometimes I drive to three customers on one day and travel for a total of 6/7 hours on a day (although those days are exceptional).
I always had the idea Americans are used to travel for long distances ?
RayB:
Nice Level42, I bought one of those a couple weeks ago. I need rehab too. Money is tight and yet I keep picking up caberets. :D I had to sell my cocktail pinball and a jamma board to fund them. (The other one is a Turbo mini)
As much as I love the artwork on full uprights, I just can't pass up minis. I can transport them into the basement without help or busting my back! ;D
Wade:
--- Quote from: shardian on June 24, 2008, 09:10:19 am ---Damn dude, you do need help. I wouldn't drive an hour for that if it was free!
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Dude, you know that's a lie!!! :) Who wouldn't drive a few hours for a "must have" game that's cheap!
Wade
shardian:
--- Quote from: Wade on June 24, 2008, 09:21:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on June 24, 2008, 09:10:19 am ---Damn dude, you do need help. I wouldn't drive an hour for that if it was free!
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Dude, you know that's a lie!!! :) Who wouldn't drive a few hours for a "must have" game that's cheap!
Wade
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I might drive a bit for a 'must have' game if it was in awesome shape, and was super cheap. My beater range is firmly planted in my immediate vicinity.
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