Very strange Golden Tee at the Auction

[fredster]

I don't know if you guys play Golden Tee, but I have bought and sold several of these critters over the years.

I was at the Auction yesterday and I saw one like I have never seen one, because it was Mame'd.

It was one machine that had GT-3d, '97,'98,'99,2K and World Class bowling that was selectable with a "menu" button and trackball.  Push the button, a menu that looked like the menu from ArcadeOS came up, select with the trackball, and then press the start button.

There was a single quater slot.  Strange for any GT machine. The machine was not an upright, but a slanted machine and it had what looked to be a flat screen 17" monitor, not an arcade monitor.  The graphics looked really good, beyond the standard CGA graphics on the older GT's. 

When the system went down after it was unplugged and then plugged in again, I saw a video card graphic with 64 mb displayed and then "echo off". 

Somebody had mamed GT and are actually selling them.  It had a CP with scanned graphics, not the stickers you buy.  The side graphics were on glossy paper that could have been printed on 8 1/2 x 11 glossy lable paper available at Office Max.

This is a problem.  IT has more power than anybody in the Arcade world.  GT is a huge game and has people betting and buying them all over.  There are betting machines for this in Vegas. Big money in GT, very big money.

I played it. I've played GT for years and I've played about every one of these courses.  It didn't act right.  The trackball sensitivity was very different from the game sitting next to it.  I have never seen a cab like this.  It was like a tall cocktail with a 10 or 15

[delta88]

Pictures?

[fredster]

Unfortunatley I don't carry my digital camera to Arcade auctions. I am kinda busy doing business, and they kick a lot of people out with digital cameras.

[tommy]

I dont see what all the hubub is just get a gt cab and mame it to all the gt games and what ever else you like.

[GGKoul]

I dont see what all the hubub is just get a gt cab and mame it to all the gt games and what ever else you like.

Selling MAME goes against the MAME Liscense

[paigeoliver]

IT doesn't sell anything in the original Golden Tee line anymore, which is the reason they are officially in Mame now. There are mame cabinets and bootleg cabs in every auction, and this is no different.

Being as crappy as you described it is probably a home made conversion of some sort.

[tommy]

I dont see what all the hubub is just get a gt cab and mame it to all the gt games and what ever else you like.

Selling MAME goes against the MAME Liscense

I didnt say anything about selling , he wanted a multigolden tee , he can make one.

[fredster]

It wasn't crappy, it was nice really.  It had a plexi cover on the CP, and the machine was nice.

I left out that it had Golden Tee Classics.  All these games are active IT games, even the old ones like 3d are still supported. Big trouble for the Mame scene if IT wants to go after copyright laws.

The main point here is that if IT sees these machines, you will have a whole new fight on Mame's hands.

If somebody emulates all the cherry masters, that's a very big industry to fight.

[paigeoliver]

I have seen Golden Tee in Mame cabinets for years, nothing new here. iT still supports those games, but they no longer sell them, they are no longer a revenue generating machine for them. If they are still selling Classic upgrade chipsets that is only because they still have them in stock and because they haven't wised up enough to realize that they can't sell new upgrade chipsets for $300 when ops can buy the whole board with the upgrade chipset on the secondary market for $60.

The Cherry Master industry is a grey market industry, those machines are illegal in lots of places, and are always getting siezed by the police and such. I am pretty sure the boards come from overseas and the cabs are assembled here by dozens of little itty bitty companies. There isn't really a unified Industry out there to FIGHT, and what industry there is wants NO attention whatsoever.

[fredster]

Golden Tee and Golden Tee II, not the new Style Golden Tee like 3d and plus.

This is different.