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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: blacktiger on November 03, 2004, 07:55:52 am
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Anyone going this weekend?
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I would like to... But I don't think I will be able too. Have too many things going around the house.
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I live in Cincinnati. What is going on theis weekend? -betacrash
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I live in Cincinnati. What is going on theis weekend? -betacrash
Arcade auction. I should be there, the only questions is how much money the wife will let me bring.
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Hey, I think I'm going to go..
but now I can't find the URL for directions / times.
Anyone have it handy?
Thanks
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Hey, I think I'm going to go..
but now I can't find the URL for directions / times.
Anyone have it handy?
Thanks
http://www.usamusement.com/columbus_map.html
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Hey, if anyone wants to meet up at the auction we can do so. I should have an orange hat with a Clemson University tiger paw on it and probably an orange Clemson shirt on. If anyone here is going, what if anything are you bringing?
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So how was the Columbus auction? Does anybody have prices from it?
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I was there and it was my first auction. I met "blacktiger" there strictly based on his description. He was indeed wearing an orange hat.
I ended up buying a non-working "Main Event" cab with some water damage for $20 and paid 'blacktiger' to help me move it and get it back to my house :) (Thanks again Mike and I hope my directions got you back to the auction)
I was there from 9:30-6pm and there were still two rows of stuff to go through. One row of 25" cabs and 1/2 row of the sit-down-games (what are they called again?) and 1/2 row of pinball
Overall prices? I had started taking notes but lost that battle. I went there looking for a cab to Mame-out. After missing the first non-working $20 cab (the very first cab auctioned off) they went through a bunch of working ones that all seemed to go for over $100 so I tuned out.
I'm a little upset I didn't buy a "breathalizer" machine for $1. They sold the first one for $10 but without a truck (and being tired already) I didn't jump on the 2nd one which they gavea away for a buck.
The only other thing I was looking at went early with the 'parts', and that was a box full of control panels. There was a Tron in there along with some big 4-player CP and some other smaller parts. The box full went for $100 or $125 I think.
Beyond that it was a blur. I had been up late the night before so I was tired when I got there. Add on another 3 or 4 hours before they even got to the first cabinets and I was already bleary eyed.
Oh, there was some HUGE rear-projection TV that went for $30 I think. They said it had powered up earlier but it wasn't coming up at that point and was really freakin' big. I mean, it was longer than I am tall, I swear it was almost 6 feet wide.
Oh yeah, I also should have bid up on a Xevious that went for $55 (I think) It wasn't "working" when the bidding came around, but I *swear* it had been working earlier. When they were auctioning it I thought it must be a different machine, but later I came to the conclusion that it was the same one.
So, all in all I did what a lot of people probably do at their 1st auction... I missed the boat on a couple things that I'm now wishing I had bought. Oh well :)
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You can never make the boat on everything. If I had made the boat on everything at the last auction alone then I would have 10 or 15 more machines!
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I have the prices of the first 50 or so cabinets, including all the cocktails, If you want to know specifics. Nerd-core to the rescue!! :P If i only had a bigger wallet and a bigger house... Oh yeah, orange might be an understatement.. and that Xevious cabinet went for $45! I'm kicking myself about that one also...I'm with you that it had worked earlier. OK, It's late and I'm becoming incoherant....
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I was at the auction too. I was there from beginning to end. 10a to 10p. My feet were tired. I didnt buy anything which is good since I probably bought too much at the last auction. My brother ended up with two nice Neo Geo cabs for cheap. I was the only guy at the auction wearing a gay looking sky blue shirt that said something about banana hammocks. -betacrash
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Xevious really isn't that great of a game. I like the similar (but relatively unknown) game Megazone.
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I was going to go... but I had too much to do... And no room for another cab right now....
The big question... and too afraid to ask. Whats the chance there was a gauntlet cab with good sideart?
I would have JUMPED on a breatholizer! GREAT drinking game!
Could I trouble with someone with a post of all the prices? I would love to see what I missed to see if it might be worth going to the next one.
Also, the control panels I would have jumped on... But that would probably have pissed my wife off...
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I bought a Double Dragon Taito cab for 20$. Had no board in it but when I got home and powered it up with a board, it works. I have to flip the yoke around cause it is backwards but other than that, it is in great shape.
Auction lasted a long time. 3 hrs of crap to sell --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type-- they got to the games.
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My brother ended up with two nice Neo Geo cabs for cheap.
How much were they? I left before they got to that row but I had been eyeing them
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He got two perfectly clean cabs. 1 was a Street Fighter II and the other was a Raystorm. Both are in NeoGeo style cabs. They were about $120 each. I do know that there was one in the same row that was a Neo Geo dual slot with Metal Slug was in one of the slots, It did not fire up so it went for $6? I believe that the guy got it started up right after that. -betacrash
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Wow, what a great deal. I saw the metal slug playing during the day. I guess it pays to wait till the end of the auction.
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Wow, what a great deal. I saw the metal slug playing during the day. I guess it pays to wait till the end of the auction.
I almost always stay till the end, although I must admit sometimes I get nervous. At the last auction I decided on a 4 Player Pong (Pro Tennis). Unfortunately that sucker was the last one of the working uprights, and the other was a bad Gals Panic conversion that I would not have wanted.
I waited like 6 or 7 hours and I got my Pong for only $50. Had I lost that one I would have either been stuck buying a cocktail (those hadn't been auctioned yet), or something off the dead row.