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Should I buy this Neo Geo Cab?
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: mgb on February 27, 2011, 12:41:19 am ---well thats definately not an actual neo geo cp.
It probably is a bad conversion and bad conversions usually have some real hack work done in them
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If you're located anywhere near northern Colorado, there is a 4-slot Neo Geo on CL with 7-8 games for $175. I'd pick it up...but I don't want to be killed in my sleep. :-\
And if you get that one (or another he has for sale) he'll throw in a MegaTouch that plays blind for free!
TopJimmyCooks:
The seller has asked $300 and then more recently $250. Clearly good examples of this cab are available with 4 slot, better condition, correct CP, etc. for similar or less money. looks like Pinball Jim is right on the money about the value - but not about my budget ;). I figured $150 in wood, paint, glass, etc. to make a mame cab with controls and a computer I already have, and I like patina. More with coin door/mechs/marquee. I have tools and a shop. It's worth about $150 to me not to have to build that from scratch, plus no restoration candidate quality cab is harmed. Thanks for the input on the market for these. I'll post how it turns out.
TopJimmyCooks:
Checked it out.
*neither coin mech worked. coined up by jumping the wire.
*no coin mech lights,
*no marquee light.
*monitor was sick (no red tones?)
*end of power cord cut and lamp cord(!) spliced on.
*previously noted replaced CP. wasn't bad, just not original.
*Label inside said the game was Superman received 1987. So a conversion? by date?
Without a good monitor, just not a lot to work with there.
I offered $100 for the value of the cabinet, glass, ok sticks/buttons etc. and was sadly turned down.
He had a desert strike? 4p with a nasty replaced 4p cp (too narrow for four) and a working ms pac man that looked like it fell off a truck at speed.
The search continues!
mgb:
The guy sounds like he's a hack. stay away from him.
Did you say he wanted $250 for that piece of crap?
TopJimmyCooks:
He didn't do it; he just bought the games and enjoyed them with his family. He bought them from an out of business arcade op in Myrtle Beach, which explains a lot. Myrtle beach is the hell evil arcade games go to to corrode away and die.
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