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Is Street Fighter 2 for $400 a good deal?

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Turnarcades:
Wow, never thought a price query thread would swing so deep so quickly...   :laugh:

It's an interesting point though about how to classfy a 'dedicated cab'. I personally would call it a 'dedicated' cab even if a third-party builder put out a certain run of a specific game for a company using a formerly generic design, as things like the CPO and artwork will have been designed or modified at a factory to make it suitable for that specific cab shape. Those with proper custom-built moulded shells or built to a specific standard to best play a game by their creator's factory I would classify seperately if I was being banal, but for the sake of arguement both of these types I would call 'dedicated cabs'.

Either way I don't like to letterbox them as to me an arcade machine was assessed on the sum of it's components, not the bloke who nailed it together. Just enjoy it as is.

Back on topic, I don't think such a common game should be worth $400, as I understand the US market and current economy. 'Dedicated' classics cabs go for between £200-£1000 usually in the UK and I believe only the true classics from the golden era should break the £500 mark. I'd put a good SF2 at around £300 if it is what I define a 'dedicated' cab. To you yanks, read that as $300.  8)

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: Turnarcades on July 25, 2009, 08:46:07 am ---Wow, never thought a price query thread would swing so deep so quickly...   :laugh:
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Then you must've thought you were on a different forum.


--- Quote ---I don't think such a common game should be worth $400, as I understand the US market and current economy.
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Yeah, there was a time when you couldn't walk into a place without finding a SF or MK machine.

FrizzleFried:
This,  i've been told,  is a "dedicated" SF-II...

I've not even opened her up so I dunno.

EDIT: Don't think so.  I think that CPO is the conversion CPO...right?



RayB:
Call it what you will. The point some are trying to make is that a kit put in a Dynamo, or a dynamo shipped from the factory with SFII will pretty much be the same.

Anyways... 400? Ask the guy what "mint" means. Is the monitor brand new?

Beretta:

--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on July 25, 2009, 04:59:51 am ---
--- Quote from: Beretta on July 25, 2009, 04:18:59 am ---just my 2 cents, although i suppose i'd have to agree with the logic that any cabinet rolling out of the factory for a specific game is dedicated..

i suppose my own rule of thumb is rather or not it has full side art.. if it's just a small square sticker, then it's a conversion imo.

dedicated cabs should have large full scale side art, and the older games preferably a decorated monitor plexi glass or bezel..

personally i'd rather have straight single colored side panels then some dinky little generic sticker.

for me the dedicated cabs was mostly about their decoration.

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The first thing that comes to mind is that Pong and Computer Space didn't have sideart at all. Also there were some dedicated machines from companies such as Gremlin that had woodgrain sides with no sideart.

There were plenty of dedicated machines that didn't have full sideart. Donkey Kong's sideart for example could have worked fine as conversion kit sideart, since it was just stuck in the upper center of the side panels and didn't conform to the shape of the cabinet. The same goes for all other classic Nintendo machines in fact.

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i am aware not all dedicated cabinets have full side art.. a perfect example sit's before us, street fighter 2 CE in a plain jane dynamo.. you kinda skipped over my first statement in my post.. logically i'd agree.. however me personally if it does'nt have large side art, or is not a farly unique cabinet design to set it self a part.. i could care less if it's a dedicated cab.. i view it as generic.

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