Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!

[Zapper]

I think I'll buy this thing and MAME it...

Last Starfighter

[Odonadon]

Dude, that rocks!

Odonadon

[Jakobud]

Okay so the pictures shows there being an actual game being played on the monitor. Surely there aren'y actual Starfighter PCB's that are included are there? I couldn't tell from the auction.

[Zapper]

More info about the cabinet here

[1UP]

It's just a prop...the guy does say something about a "special gift" to make it more authentic.  Probably a tape or DVD with screenshots looped from the movie.

[Zapper]

Maybe the "special gift" is Lance Guest (Alex Rogan). In the eBay picture he looks madly insane, reminds me of Capt. Nemo or Dr. Reinhardt from Disney's The Black Hole.

[Chris]

Note that this is NOT the cabinet from the movie!  Read the description carefully... it's a replica.

--Chris

[dirt]

i wonder if the guy who won the auction for $3,500 relized that it is not the real one. talk about buyers remorse.


dirt

[Sasquatch!]

Maybe the "special gift" is Lance Guest (Alex Rogan). In the eBay picture he looks madly insane, reminds me of Capt. Nemo or Dr. Reinhardt from Disney's The Black Hole.

Holy cow, that's Lance Guest in that picture??  Poor bastard.

i wonder if the guy who won the auction for $3,500 relized that it is not the real one. talk about buyers remorse.

I only skimmed through that auction, and it was readily apparent to me that this was not the same cabinet that was in the movie.

Hmph.  Would've been a cool conversation piece to own.

[1UP]

I'll bet it was the one they used in the BG for the interviews on the DVD release.

BTW, I work with Jon Betuel (the guy who wrote Starfighter), and he couldn't believe it when I told him what people were paying for a non-working fake arcade game...  Then he told me about the Battlezone he bought a while back, which he had to let go because the joysticks didn't work and replacements aren't made any more.  When I told him I could have replaced them for him with newer joysticks, while keeping the original grips, he was like "Doh!"    We actually had a nice little nostalgic conversation about classic arcade games 'n stuff...

[Frostillicus]

I played the game on my computer for so many hours I'd lose count.  Awesome game...destroying the armada and such.  It was on my 800XL though I never had a 5200 (sadly).

Seems a little excessive for 3,500$$$    but hey some people have money to burn.