Computer Space

[MaineEvent]

I have an opportunity that I would love to take advantage of...and being Canadian I would feel bad about "pulling the guys pants down" over the price.
This thing is an amazing piece of history!
I'd love to hear your comments and opinions 

[Ginsu Victim]

I don't have a price in mind, but just a word of warning:

everyone I've known that has owned one has eventually gotten rid of it.

[MaineEvent]

Yea....I definitely couldn't see anyone wanting to play a 40 year old game a whole lot.
I would get it strictly to flip it or part it out if it couldn't be restored.

Apparently it has never been repaired and the original monitor is still there.
It was obtained at an auction 20 years ago!

[IG-88]

I guess the 1st question is, what's he asking for it?

[MaineEvent]

That's why I made the poll...He doesn't have an asking price.
I'm hoping to take a look at it in a couple days

[Pinball Wizard]

I could have bought a non-working red one for $200 from Lloyd (coin-op warehouse) when he was in Hagerstown, MD but I didn't need the project. The game sucked and I didn't have the room. The big thing with him was that he would sell you any cabinet with whatever parts that were in it, any condition for $200. So I'd start of low arguing that it is an old game, hard to find info on it and doesn't work. What kind of shape is the cabinet in? The computer space I almost bought was in pretty good shape for the age but had a dent or 2 in the fiberglass.

[IG-88]

Ahh...that makes a little more sense. I can't see the polls or graphix on my cell for some reason...

[Ginsu Victim]

Ahh...that makes a little more sense. I can't see the polls or graphix on my cell for some reason...

$1-$200           -5 (45.5%)
$200-$400         -2 (18.2%)
$400-$600         -3 (27.3%)
$600+         -0 (0%)
A pair of the red Olympic mittens         -1 (9.1%)
   
Total Voters: 11

[IG-88]

I'm thinking around the $250 mark also. Did anyone here see what that one at CAX was going for last summer? Seemed to be in descent shape but not "restored" Like someone said earlier the gameplay aint the greatest.

[Havok]

Computer Space pulls in crazy money - offer it as low as you can and then flip it! Working and in decent shape it should get you a $1000+

[MaineEvent]

  The dude sold it....and not to me 
Might be just as well... I think I would have had a hard time finding a proper buyer here
Thanks for the input guys

[Spyridon]

The dude sold it....and not to me 
Might be just as well... I think I would have had a hard time finding a proper buyer here
Thanks for the input guys

How much did it sell for?

[SirPeale]

That's what happens when you think /too/ much and don't make a move.  Should have thrown out a figure and worked from there.

[SavannahLion]

I've been wanting a CS cab for sometime. Not the actual game. Couldn't really care any less about the game. IIRC, the game is more suited to a drunken night involving bets than any actual fun gameplay. Played the recreation and well.... turned it off after about five minutes.

It's that cab. Certain cabs have a certain allure about them. To me, the CS cab is one of them. Something about the fiberglass composition of the cab and the weird voguish 70's alienesque curves just call out. Kind of like the corvettes of the 60's and 70's before they got all crappy with their bodies sometime around the 80's.

[Spyridon]

Plus they make great multi-cabs.

[Pinball Wizard]

Where did you see that? Wow. Lets just say pac-man doesn't look right in that much less a ms. pac-man.

[TheShanMan]

Please tell me that's photoshopped! Anyone maming a computer space should be shot!

[RayB]

Even non-working tends to go for around a $1000 on Ebay (usually over that). Of course, last time I kept up on Comp Space auctions and sales was before the big financial collapse. So consider that as pre-Sept 2008 prices. But still! And in working condition, we're talking thousands.