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Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!
« on: October 19, 2003, 10:27:06 pm »
I think I'll buy this thing and MAME it...

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Re:Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2003, 12:57:59 am »
Dude, that rocks!

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Re:Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2003, 01:02:23 am »
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.
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Re:Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2003, 02:03:01 am »
More info about the cabinet here
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Re:Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2003, 04:37:43 am »
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.
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Re:Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2003, 03:38:15 pm »
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.
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Re:Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2003, 03:11:20 pm »
Note that this is NOT the cabinet from the movie!  Read the description carefully... it's a replica.

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Re:Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2003, 12:03:17 am »
i wonder if the guy who won the auction for $3,500 relized that it is not the real one. talk about buyers remorse.


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Re:Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2003, 09:43:52 pm »
Quote from: Zapper on October 20, 2003, 03:38:15 pm
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.
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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.
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Re:Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2003, 02:17:39 am »
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...
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Re:Last Starfighter Cabinet on eBay!
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2003, 09:34:16 am »
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$$$  :o  but hey some people have money to burn.
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