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Arcade Collecting => Restorations & repair => Topic started by: smass on June 04, 2017, 11:47:57 am

Title: Wizard of Wor?
Post by: smass on June 04, 2017, 11:47:57 am

A friend of my wife's has a working Wizard of Wor.  Its been in his house for a decade or so and appears from the pictures to be in good shape.  He claims everything works on it.  I would assume that its possible the monitor will need a cap kit and it will need some general cleaning up.

I am not a particular fan of the game, but the artwork is really cool and its an early midway.  If I can get it for a good price I may just clean it up and keep it - or offer it in trade for something I really want. 

He floated a price of $500 for it.  What is a reasonable price to offer do you all think?  :)

Title: Re: Wizard of Wor?
Post by: cw on June 05, 2017, 08:32:31 pm

not a bad price in my book.. but not a good price.  If its up and playing and all three sound channels are working then I would go for it.. its a great looking game that had good replay value and is blast with 2 people. 

Title: Re: Wizard of Wor?
Post by: ChadTower on June 06, 2017, 12:15:32 am

Holy crap cw lives!  Where have you been man?


$500 is about right for a nice working WoW.  Try to get it down some.

Title: Re: Wizard of Wor?
Post by: philenotfound on June 07, 2017, 05:40:15 am

I love this game and its music.

Title: Re: Wizard of Wor?
Post by: smass on June 09, 2017, 10:56:41 am

I was aggressive and offered him $300.  I expected a counter - but he took the offer.  Turns out it was his partner's machine and he passed away a few years ago.  Its been in their house for the past 15 years.  He claims it works 100%.  At $300 I will take my chances - he told me he just wanted it to go to someone who would appreciate it and didn't want to deal with a bunch of strangers on CL or Ebay (he knows my wife).

So I am picking it up tomorrow.  I will post more pics once I have it in my possession :)

Title: Re: Wizard of Wor?
Post by: yotsuya on June 09, 2017, 01:42:20 pm

Quote from: smass on June 09, 2017, 10:56:41 am

I was aggressive and offered him $300.  I expected a counter - but he took the offer.  Turns out it was his partner's machine and he passed away a few years ago.  Its been in their house for the past 15 years.  He claims it works 100%.  At $300 I will take my chances - he told me he just wanted it to go to someone who would appreciate it and didn't want to deal with a bunch of strangers on CL or Ebay (he knows my wife).

So I am picking it up tomorrow.  I will post more pics once I have it in my possession :)

Good pickup! :cheers:

Title: Re: Wizard of Wor?
Post by: Ian on June 09, 2017, 03:45:11 pm

I really like playing Wizard of Wor... it's one of my favorites.

Title: Re: Wizard of Wor?
Post by: morton on June 22, 2017, 10:38:17 am

I love out of the ordinary grabs. Maybe me considering this out of the ordinary shows my age/inexperience.

I dig the colours of the cab. Got a nice classic vibe to it.

Title: Re: Wizard of Wor?
Post by: Mike A on June 22, 2017, 10:44:40 am

 :pics