Author Topic: A very rare sight in Europe... (Read 3628 times)

Level42 · « **on:** March 05, 2010, 01:23:30 am »

Sorry guys, but the US has been "robbed" of a couple of nice machines....

Story here:
http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=1384.0

And I agreed to not buy any cab anymore........

JeepMonkey · « **Reply #1 on:** March 05, 2010, 07:06:58 am »

Quote from: Level42 on March 05, 2010, 01:23:30 am

And I agreed to not buy any cab anymore........

That must be why this happened! Cool deal though. I see an TAF in there.

Spyridon · « **Reply #2 on:** March 05, 2010, 04:12:28 pm »

That picture was taken in the US. I see the Statue of Liberty in the background!

Pinball Wizard · « **Reply #3 on:** March 05, 2010, 05:08:02 pm »

Quote from: Level42 on March 05, 2010, 01:23:30 am

Sorry guys, but the US has been "robbed" of a couple of nice machines....

And I agreed to not buy any cab anymore........

Wait a minute!!! You stole all those Ms. Pac-Mans.... I mean you stole the Statue Of Liberty???

Why would you every agree to not buy any more cabs? I mean was it worth the reward of marriage not to put a 6th game in the bedroom?

Level42 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 05, 2010, 06:18:07 pm »

You're right. You know, I will _NEVER_ understand women. Never.

I showed these pics (and more) and talked about the deal etc. My friend Ckong (Erik) and some other Dutch guys bought some of those cabs, and I can tell you they made a great deal. So I talked about that and she said, well it's OK with me if you get one, but where do you put it ? (My game room is already too full) So I went like, you mean you actually are not going to put up a struggle about if I would get one ?!!?!?

Well she did mention that I should fix up my _current_ machines first, and well let's be honest, she's simply right about it.

But on the other hand, this is probably the best chance to get my hands on a lovely Ms.Pac machine....for a long time.....

Q*Bert_OP · « **Reply #5 on:** March 07, 2010, 12:07:46 am »

Quote from: JeepMonkey on March 05, 2010, 07:06:58 am

Quote from: Level42 on March 05, 2010, 01:23:30 am
And I agreed to not buy any cab anymore........

That must be why this happened! Cool deal though. I see an TAF in there.

Not only a TAF, but a gold one at that...too bad it's a reimport...

Level42 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 07, 2010, 04:47:03 am »

He's got loads more pins.

Pinball Wizard · « **Reply #7 on:** March 07, 2010, 08:24:50 am »

Then maybe you could help me out and tell me where I might find this guy to look at these pins? Or did you guys buy them all!?!?!

Level42 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:18:25 am »

Quote from: Pinball Wizard on March 07, 2010, 08:24:50 am

Then maybe you could help me out and tell me where I might find this guy to look at these pins? Or did you guys buy them all!?!?!

You're in Europe ?

Pinball Wizard · « **Reply #9 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:57:28 am »

I thought you meant that the guy in the US that you all bought the machines from still had a bunch more...

Guess not.

Level42 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 07, 2010, 02:42:45 pm »

Sorry for being unclear. I didn't buy any of these.

This is a German trader that usually imports jukeboxes and (I guess ?) pinballs from the US. He also imports an occasional arcade game but I guess this time he ran into this lot and imported it.

Level42 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 09, 2010, 12:01:23 pm »

Small correction on the above posting: I bought a Ms. Pac Man from that lot yesterday !!!!

Check out the road-trip here:
http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=1432.0

JeepMonkey · « **Reply #12 on:** March 09, 2010, 05:19:21 pm »

Congrats! You finally got one, and in pretty good condition. I didn't read the entire other post, does it work?

Level42 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 10, 2010, 02:08:53 am »

Well, I could choose between 3 Ms.Pac (and 2 or 3 Pac, but I definitely wanted Ms.) cabs. Seller explained two of them were completely dead but one showed the game screen but had "all kind of stripes" across the screen. So he offered to power them up one at a time and the one he mentioned fired up and WORKED

The screen did have some strange colors, but the attract ran fine AND I could credit it and start a game.
Regretfully it has a speed-up/different maze hack, but that can be reversed. The seller was about as surprised as I was to see is work right away. I'm very glad we already negotiated a price _before_ I went over because I bet he would have wanted more for a working game....

The two other cabs probably looked a bit better than mine, but I still went for the running machine of course, a running Ms.Pac board is pretty valuable as we all know.....and all cabs would need a full restore anyway.....well at least somewhere in the future....

Anyway, the problem he described sounded like bad sync on the monitor so I already had some hope it would just be adjusting a pot on the monitor.

Harakiri · « **Reply #14 on:** March 10, 2010, 05:48:00 am »

I'm in Portugal and i have no money to get one of those neither a pin...

...this message will echo inside my head for a long time...

Epyx · « **Reply #15 on:** March 14, 2010, 12:24:49 am »

Hey some may have come from Canada in North America

Level42 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 14, 2010, 12:26:43 pm »

What gives you that idea ?

My serial nr. is 3425. Pretty low.

Havok · « **Reply #17 on:** April 12, 2010, 04:12:26 pm »

meh - we can spare the cabs. They're everywhere here in the US...

Level42 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 12, 2010, 06:14:35 pm »

Good ! Send more !

solidteezme · « **Reply #19 on:** April 13, 2010, 06:12:32 am »

You NEVER see anyting like that in the uk.

there all bloody generic jamma cabs.


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