Flack
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This past week I decided to hit the local thrifts just to see if I found anything interesting. Along with lots of NES and a few Commodore 64 items, I also found a few Atari games, a set of paddles, two joysticks, and a "light sixer". Oddly enough, the joysticks and paddles were a buck each, but the Atari was only 99 cents.
How are the thrift stores in your neck of the woods when it comes to Atari stuff? Still finding loose games on a regular basis, or have the waters all but dried up?
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Usually when I find out about stuff like this I post it, but I just found out the night before and forgot about it. It was in the Oklahoman, that's where I saw it. The auction was over off of 37th and Bryant, basically just a few miles north of Crossroads Mall.
These guys had one two weeks ago which apparently had much better results, then last week was the SuperAuctions one in Dallas (which I missed) so I thought I'd catch this one.
I'll post about any more I hear about in the future. Just make sure you don't bring any cash Tim -- these things are addictive. Just ask my wife about the 20 or so I own ...
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Just got back from an arcade game auction here in the city. They had almost 100 games there. Turnout was poor (I would guess between 25-30 people) and it seemed like there were about 4 main sellers and they were just buying all their own games back. There were a lot of crappy games (either no names or ones with bad monitors) that went for $100-$200, but then all the classics were just bought back by the sellers because they weren't bringing in high enough prices. It was very obvious to everyone there what was going on. There were also power problems so many of the games weren't even turned on, fuses kept blowing, people were working on games before/during/after the sales ... just a bad deal all the way around.
I took a ton of pictures with my Palm Zire so I will post those and the final prices here as I get them done.
Thanks to The Stranger for riding along and jotting down all the prices.
Auction Results
n/s = Not sold (usually because the game would not fire up)
buyback = repurchased by the seller due to low bids
bad monitor = dark or wavy picture, looked bad, needed a cap kit
Dartboard - $175 (x3)
Sega MVP baseball - $75
Jail Break - $100 (buyback)
Shinobi - n/s (bad monitor)
Street Fighter II - n/s (bad monitor)
Special Criminal Investigation - $125
Crime Fighters - $175
Neo Geo (2 Slot) - $150
MetaMorphic Force - $125
WWF Superstars - $125
Mario Brothers - $175
Tetris - $150 (buyback)
Street Fighter II - n/s
Capcom Bowling - $100 (buyback)
Crystal Castles - n/s
Battle Balls - $100 (buyback)
Championship Baseball - $75
Double Play Baseball - $100
Black Out - n/s
After Burner - $250
Shinobi - $125 (bad monitor) (buyback)
Golden Axe - $75 (buyback)
Mat Mania - n/s
Time Soldiers - n/s
RoadBlasters - n/s
Super Mario Brothers - n/s
Krazy Bowl - n/s
TMNT: Turtles in Time - $250 (buyback)
Nintendo Super System - $250 (buyback)
Peggle - n/s
RoadBlasters - n/s
Pole Position II - n/s
NBA Jam (stripped) - n/s
Frogger - $300 (buyback)
Pac-Man w/Ms. Pac-Man board - $200
Multi-Game board (4 Classics) - $600 (buyback)
Donkey Kong - $600 (buyback)
Tempest - $300 (buyback)
Death Race - $600 (buyback)
Arcade Classics (MAME Machine) - $800
Captain America and the Avengers - $225
Asteroids - $650
Moon Patrol - $250 (buyback)
Galaga - $1000 (buyback)
Phoenix - $200 (bad monitor) (buyback)
Missile Command - $400 (questionable monitor)
Dig Dug - $400
Neo Geo (Huge) - $200 (bad monitor) (buyback)
Die Hard - $200 (buyback)
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 - $350 (buyback)
Primal Rage - $250 (buyback)
Lethal Enforcers - n/s
Tekken 3 - $300 (buyback)
Die Hard - n/s
Tekken - $175
Off Road - $400
X-Men Children of the Atom - $200 (buyback)
Die Hard - $275 (buyback)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4 player - $200 (buyback)
Golden Tee '98 - $500 (buyback)
Deer Hunting USA - $550
Cruisin World - $1100 (reserve, n/s)
Golden Tee - $700 (reserve, n/s)
Off Road Challenge - $500 (reserve, n/s)
Pinball
Johnny Mneumonic - $725
Waterworld - $800
World Cup USA '94 - $750
Evel Knievel - $750
Genesis - $500
Remember, if it says "buyback", the game didn't really sell at that price. The person selling the game outbid everyone else, and the game was "bought back" by the original seller.
Here are pictures from the auction. When viewing these pictures, please keep in mind two things. One, pictures are prohibited at auctions, so all of these were taken by me "being sneaky". Two, all of these photos were taken with a palm pilot camera. Some of the pictures came out a little blurry or washed out -- that is why.
Let the bidding begin!
Death Race, Tempest, and Donkey Kong.
Nintendo Super System, Peggle (?), and RoadBlasters.
RoadBlasters, Vs. Super Mario Brothers, Krazy Bowl, TMNT: Turtles in Time
Battle Balls, Championship Baseball, Double Play Baseball, Black Out
Captain America, "Arcade Classics" (MAME)
"Arcade Classics" (MAME), Death Race, Tempest
Various games.
Various games.
Pinball Machines.
Neo Geo, MetaMorphic Force, WWF Superstars, Mario Brothers, Tetris, Street Fighter II, Capcom Bowling, Crystal Castles.
Sega MVP Baseball, Jail Break, Shinobi, Street Fighter II, Special Criminal Investigation, Crime Fighters (see above for rest)
Tekken, Off Road, X-Men, Die Hard, TMNT, Golden Tee 98, Deer Hunting USA, Cruisin' World, Golden Tee, Off Road Challenge
Various games.
The Stranger tries his hand at a really fresh Donkey Kong machine.
Nintendo Super System, Peggle, RoadBlasters, Pole Position II, NBA Jam.
Slot machines.
Virtual On (which was off).
All dead cabinets.
Pac-Man, Frogger, Dig Dug.
Galaga, Moon Patrol, Asteroids.
Black Out, After Burner, Shinobi.
Golden Axe, empty Vs. cabinet, Mat Mania, various games.
Missile Command, Phoenix.
The Stranger kicks Galaga's butt.
Multi-Game (4 games) and Pac-Man
A huge Neo Geo cabinet, Die Hard, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.
World Cup USA, Evel Knievel
Johnny Mneumonic, Waterworld
Various games.
Auctioning off pinball machines.
Old, dead, dusty, unsold cocktail.
Me, pretending this game worked.
Various games.
The Stranger checking out that minty fresh Donkey Kong one last time.
Die Hard, TMNT, Golden Tee '98
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While the arcade version is offense only, the NES version allows players to be both offense and defense. On defense, A and B select between two different people you can control. Once the ball is hiked, you chase the guy with the ball, and one of the buttons on the controller does a diving tackle. The cool thing is, after you do a diving tackle you keep running and since you dive faster then you run it's much easier to just keep diving all over the place. You kind of look like Frogger doing it but what they hey.
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I don't know if they're exactly the same, but I've seen similar metal shelves available at Lowes and Home Depot.
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If it were me, I'd just replace them. I run across working 64s all the time, so many that it wouldn't be worth the time, effort or money to fix one (unless you're just interested in the challenge). I picked up a NIB C64C not too long ago for $20.
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Check out the following website for IDE64 -- a device which allows you to hook up old, PC IDE hard drives to your '64. You can also use compact flash ram instead of a hard drive. Also remember that the entire C64 library fits on a couple of CD's, so an ungodly sized hard drive is not required.
If you want to hook your 64 to your PC and use it as a HD, just pick up an XE1541 cable (that's what I use). They are always on eBay (there's one right now for $25 BIN, just looked). Not only does this cable allow you to hook your 64 up to your PC to use it as a HD, it also allows the connecting of a 1541 disk drive to your PC, so you can xfer real Commodore 64 disks to d64 format (for use with emulators), and back (virtual d64 images to real, working 1541 floppy disks).
That's what I got.
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My gameroom will comfortable hold about 15 games ... and right now, I have just over 20. I've got quite a few games like this Mega Force that I picked up either in lots, or games that I bought when I just entered this hobby because they were cheap games (didn't take into consideration whether or not I would actually play them or not!). Now my garage is full of games like Q*Bert, Karate Champ, X-Men and Gauntlet II, while my gameroom has games like Mega Force, Time Soldiers, and Bucky O'Hare. Time for a little inventory rotation.
BTW that Mega Force is still sitting with no bids. Does it suck that much? I figured someone would pick it up just for the Pac-Man cabinet. I also have a crappy baseball game that someone stuck into a rather good looking Robotron cabinet with a Joust bezel. I'm wondering if I just shouldn't part that one out.
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Cassidy, I certainly do wish I lived within an easy drive of you. Of course if I did I'd spend WAY too much money on arcade machines. That's a great price for this one. Should sell quickly.-S
Stingray, did you see the Oklahoman last weekend? Tron for $325, Pole Position for $225. I called ... 10 minutes too late. :/
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Very cool, good luck with your MAME project. Putting together a nice MAME cabinet is one of those projects that I've been wanting to do for the past several years. But I know it'll take a fair amount of effort and time, and I also don't really have a lot of space to work on something like this. However, a friend of mine does have all the wood working equipment and he built himself a rather nice MAME cabinet (built his own control panel, nice keyboard tray, etc..) I have plenty of computers I could donate to the cause, so I just need to find a good donor cabinet and get going.
..Al
Weekend after next is SuperAuctions in Mesquite (just outside of Dallas). Hang around to the end of the auction and you can get non-working cabinets in fair shape for $5-10.
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I love cabinets with big side art graphics like that one. Nice find! Hang out at enough auctions and you will always find a good deal. Shinobi and Mat Mania, two of my first games, cost me $25 each.
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Pretty tempting. Sadly I'm in the middle of a house renovation and I have no place to store it until my game room is back together.Good luck on the auction.
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Finish up that renovation. I've got a lot of games I need to sell ... if you're in Tulsa, I'll deliver them for a good meal.
And by good meal, I mean a pizza.
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Really thorough and impartial reporting there. You would have thought they might have contacted Atari Age to get their version of the story.
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Short notice, but there's one in OKC tomorrow, followed by a SuperAuctions one next weekend in Mesquite, TX.Actually sir, I believe the Mesquite one is the weekend AFTER that.
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Short notice, but there's one in OKC tomorrow, followed by a SuperAuctions one next weekend in Mesquite, TX.
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I used the exact same cabinet for my MAME cabinet. Well, mine's orange, but other than that, it's the same.
The biggest problem is, the way the monitor mounts. Mine didn't have a monitor either but had remnants of a monitor shelf so I reinforced it and put my monitor on it. It's WAY too low. If you are standing, it points at your chest. I need to redo it and put the monitor at an angle, but then I'll have to hand make some sort of 3D bezel to block out the sides.
BTW I stuck a 21" VGA monitor in there, no problem. Seems like inside was 24-25" inches, plenty of room for a 21" monitor or 20" television.
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Aren't they made by the same people/company? If you look at the two products side by side they are obviously the same code ... it just looks like someone hex edit the text in one to make it look different from the other.
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There are four major malls here in the Oklahoma City Area: Penn Square Mall, Crossroads Mall, Quail Springs Mall and Herritage Park Mall. While Penn Square no longer has an arcade, the other three do. And, within 10 minutes of Penn Square Mall is Cactus Jack's and Celebration Station, which both had better arcades than Penn Square Mall ever had in the first place.
Sometimes it's okay to be behind the times.
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Normally on a cabinet that old I would argue toward preservation over restoration -- however, the fact that you're sticking a PC inside and running MAME on it throws that argument out the window.
You might be able to fix the corners, sand, and paint up TO the side art, leaving the side art intact. Then gloss over the entire thing.
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Dallas probably has dozens of thrift stores, maybe hundreds if you consider all the suburbs surrounding it. I'll bet you'll have no problem in finding a few Atari games in central Texas!
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I checked my Hastings the other day ... no retro goodness for me.
But lots of goth kids.
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Do these clones ever mention Nintendo on the box or in the games? I thought it would only look and play the same, but without a reference to the original. If it doesn't say Nintendo, I don't know how their reputation can be damaged to the extent of millions of dollars.. but of course they need to exaggerate to get attention.Ok well each NES game originally sold for around $30, and the one I bought claims to have 76,000 games built in -- that's $2,280,000 right there per unit!
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I have two, both smooth. Both were purchased within a year of launch, so that gives credence to that theory.
My own personal theory is they all came textured, like tire knobbies. The older the NES, the smoother it is due to wear.
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OKC Auction Results: 12/18/2004 (LOTS of PIX)
in Arcade and Pinball
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I thought the joysticks on that one looked a bit odd ...