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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: ChadTower on October 25, 2007, 03:21:34 pm
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Link (http://cgi.ebay.com/Limited-Edition-Arcade-Game-The-Act-NR_W0QQitemZ300164463038QQihZ020QQcategoryZ13716QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Odd. Within easy driving distance for me.
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It depends on it your going to play it. What is it?
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Follow the links to the maker's website.
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Oh (i checked the ebay link but didnt notice the manufactures link at all). It doesnt sound very fun at all. Of course you would fix that right? Looks kinda like a showcase so maybe a gun game or something.
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Erm, no, I'd probably keep it as it is... it sounds very interesting to me.
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Odd. Within easy driving distance for me.
Interesting. Keep us posted...
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Erm, no, I'd probably keep it as it is... it sounds very interesting to me.
Maybe i just have a horrible personality :dunno
I do like the cab shape and design though. Maybe ill like it more if i try the demo they have on the links inside of your link.
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Whenever I see the term "Interactive Film", those submarine DIVE! klaxons go off in my head. As a major non-fan of Dragons Lair and every other interactive cartoon experience, it's a guarantee that the game is going to be horrible.
I think if you go to that companies main page and try their little embedded tech demo, you can get a feel for what they did in the game. Doesn't seem like it'd be fun for most of the people here, but casual (women) players would probably love it. I actually wonder if the arcade machine is just a PC running a full screen Flash animation. By looking at the machine, you can tell it was designed by people who have never played an arcade game in a bar. With that flimsy marquee and wide open LCD, it'd be lucky to survive 15 minutes.
I would hate to hack it in case the planets line up, it gets mentioned in some ---smurfy--- Hugh Grant movie and earns Holy Grail status among bloated housewives. Its only at 31 bucks now, but I have a feeling its going to go much higher just based on parts, not on anyones feelings about it's collector status.
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That's my feeling... if it goes around $100, hell it's worth it just for the parts. I don't feel like going a ton higher than that anyway.
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Didn't see much cab pictures on that manufacturers site. I found another picture in a blog entry about The Act: The Act: an Interactive Movie on Location Test (http://arcadeheroes.com/2007/04/30/the-act-an-interactive-movie-on-location-test/)
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It's definitely a good looking cab. If it gets too boring after a while that would make a killer juke.
A little discussion on it. (http://z6.invisionfree.com/arcadeheroes/index.php?showtopic=96)
You know what... after going through the links in that thread, I actually want this game. This looks awesome.
Received an email from some guy saying he had bought one of these from them off Ebay and "they charged me $1000 to crate it and hundreds more to ship to CA". A couple hours later I got an email from the actual seller saying it is fine to pick up locally and that all shipping arrangements are left to the buyer... pretty much contradicting what the first buyer emailed me. What a toolbag.
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It looks like it could be an entertaining game. The cab design is nice too.
I've gotta question the wisdom of naming a company after a moth that has a two week lifespan, because the adult form is incapable of eating! ???
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Heh. When those larvae come out, though, holy crap do they do damage.
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Oh (i checked the ebay link but didnt notice the manufactures link at all). It doesnt sound very fun at all. Of course you would fix that right? Looks kinda like a showcase so maybe a gun game or something.
Nice. They only made 8 prototypes of this and your first thought is to convert it. ::)
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The game looks fun, and the cab is definitely interesting. But most importantly... Chad is a newbie somewhere.
Keep us posted on the cab. I noticed it's several hundred bucks now, but even if you hated it and ignored the fact that it's one of 8 or so created I bet that the monitor on a prototype machine is basically off the shelf and therefor worth several hundred more.
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Per the seller:
The monitor is a DVI flat panel monitor that is capable of a 1366x768
(720p) display. The display is actually running in 640x480 mode with
the content reformatted to display properly with the 16:9 aspect ratio.
They don't seem eager to say size... but it doesn't look that big. I suspect it's in the 26" range. The big thing here may be that, if I read that correctly, the animation is actually framed for widescreen... whereas the conversion kits will be formatted for 4:3, losing substantial parts of the frame.
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Interesting concept; I'd certainly like to try playing it.
Bizarre that they chose to go after the arcade market (followed by the home market) instead of just going directly to the home market.
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More info on this and footage over @ klov---> http://tinyurl.com/2tb89e
Interesting thread, somehow there is a conversion out already?
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by the looks of the base it does not look like itis very big at all.
not giving a description better of the screen size the weight and the measurements is kinda goofy.
and this part is scary lol
Shipping arrangements for this cabinet will need to be made by the winning bidder. The item is located in the Greater Boston area. Only serious bidders wanted -- the shipping costs alone could end up costing a few thousand dollars. :dizzy:
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The item is located in the Greater Boston area.
That's where I live. :) Greater Boston World Series Champion 8-0 TomBradyLand.
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That actually looks quite amusing. The animation on the trailer looks nice.
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If you go here (http://arcadeheroes.com/ http://arcadeheroes.com/) and scroll down there is a 5 minute video of the game in action...
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That's my feeling... if it goes around $100, hell it's worth it just for the parts. I don't feel like going a ton higher than that anyway.
Are you still interested now that it's almost at four bills or have you dropped it?
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I'm still considering it, definitely. I'm waiting on a bit more info from the guy at arcadeheroes that has a conversion kit. This game is definitely my style, it's unique... I see it as very similar to Dragon's Lair.
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I'm still considering it, definitely. I'm waiting on a bit more info from the guy at arcadeheroes that has a conversion kit. This game is definitely my style, it's unique... I see it as very similar to Dragon's Lair.
Good deal. I'm interested to see info and pics if it lands in your hands...
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I guess the main question now is, how high to go? I mean, it's cool and all, but the conversion kits they previously sold went for $400+ and $600+... and it's hard to bid that high on something you've never seen.
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I'm still considering it, definitely.
:laugh2:
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It is now up above what I can pay right now... a shame, too, but I've already committed on the repro Black Knight playfields that are supposed to be shipping any week now. Committed on those months back and can't buy both this close to Xmas.
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Yikes, went for $2400. Probably not a bad price for a limited run prototype of a novel arcade game though...
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Yikes, went for $2400. Probably not a bad price for a limited run prototype of a novel arcade game though...
yeesh, I can't believe there were three folks still in a bidding war past the $2k mark...
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Doesn't matter... Ebay pulled it. It never finished.
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Doesn't matter... Ebay pulled it. It never finished.
I wonder why? :dunno
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As one of the bidders I got a long winded form email about possible improper bidding activity along with about 45 other potential reasons.
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As one of the bidders I got a long winded form email about possible improper bidding activity along with about 45 other potential reasons.
This is starting to annoy me about ebay. Their system is about as corrupted as one can get. Luckily, scammers are not extremely active in the arcade part of ebay.
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Yeah. When it got up in the $700 range I stopped watching... and now that it's gone, I can't even see the history to see what happened. I may email the sellers directly and see what they would let it go for.