OLD SCHOOL ARCADE GAME CENTERPIED - $2240 (pittsburg / antioch)

[Namco]

I just wanted to post this unrealistic craigslist ad. I know it looks like spam, but it's an example of the kind of stuff I see a lot of in craigslist in the SF Bay area:

OLD SCHOOL ARCADE GAME CENTERPIED - $2240 (pittsburg / antioch)
Reply to: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Date: 2008-07-23, 9:40PM PDT

Overview
Centipede was the first arcade game designed by a women and one of Atari’s most successful games. The game is a vertical shooter that uses a track-ball for player movement. The player’s goal is to destroy an array of insects, including a centipede (obviously), fleas, spiders and scorpions.

Coin-Op Overview
The game’s cabinet is characterized by colorful graphics of an intimidating centipede that are seen nearly all of Atari’s games from the early 1980s.

FOR ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CALL CECELIA XXXXXXX @ XXXXXXXXX

The same person also has an ad for:
OLD SCHOOL VIDEO ARCADE MR DO - $2240 (pittsburg / antioch)
and
OLD SCHOOL ARCADE GAME ARKANOID - $2400 (pittsburg / antioch)

She's hoping to make $8000 on 3 admittedly dusty old cabs. Crazy, eh?

[protokatie]

She's hoping to make $8000 on 3 admittedly dusty old cabs. Crazy, eh?

Give it 15 or 20 years and we will see one of two things. 1. 2k for an old cabinet will be standard or 2. no-one will care anymore and all the classics will be dead.

EDIT: I KNOW I am going to get a huge amount of flak from saying this; but I hope it is the later, as I would almost relish seeing closure to the arcade "thing". This is of course as opposed to seeing it reeling on its death bed for another 15 years. Sometimes closure and finality is better. (Then again, if I had my way, arcades and their games would still be major crowd pleasers, but I am not that demented to even consider the idea possible)

[RayB]

What does this mean: "...an intimidating centipede that are seen nearly all of Atari’s games from the early 1980s." ??

[Ginsu Victim]

Dunno. Maybe they were thinking about the enemies in Crystal Castles?

[Namco]

I think the machines are actually physically infested with centipedes. Perhaps it's the aroma of the wood that attracts them to the Atari cabs?

[Ummon]

Looks like the poster's first language isn't English.

[ark_ader]

She's hoping to make $8000 on 3 admittedly dusty old cabs. Crazy, eh?

Give it 15 or 20 years and we will see one of two things. 1. 2k for an old cabinet will be standard or 2. no-one will care anymore and all the classics will be dead.

EDIT: I KNOW I am going to get a huge amount of flak from saying this; but I hope it is the later, as I would almost relish seeing closure to the arcade "thing". This is of course as opposed to seeing it reeling on its death bed for another 15 years. Sometimes closure and finality is better. (Then again, if I had my way, arcades and their games would still be major crowd pleasers, but I am not that demented to even consider the idea possible)

What do you mean in 15 years?

Its just about dead now.  The classic games now are the Playstaion ones. 

..............Well according to the kids.

[Mauzy]

Yeah 15 years is too optimistic. My generation doesn't seem to care about arcades in general, let alone restoring the classics.

[Circo]

I had a guy at work tell me today, "Man sometimes I like oldschool games" then he proceded to ramble off games like goldeneye..... Not old school dude!

He had never even heard of a 2600.  Another guy and I started talking about the stick with one buton and playing decathalon and he only respone was, "one button???"

Sheesh

[ChadTower]

It's the Holy Centipete of Antioch... and the number of the scoring shall be thus:  1... 2... 5.