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The new owner of a Neo Geo dual slot cabinet. Hope it made the trip home okay. Nice meeting you today!

Yeah, all Nintendo VS cabinets basically look the same. Sometimes you can tell what they were originally by the color or there might be a clue inside. Also, most VS cabinets I've seen have a little bronze plaque on the back that had the original name on it -- of course, these disappear over time as well.

Pinballs, Water World, World Cup, Several Cranes, ECT, 2 Foosball table, 15 Counters tops, w/20 games each. All true. Several Juke boxes, CD & 45's None of the jukeboxes worked. The auctioneer said that someone was supposed to bring parts to fix them before the auction and didn't show up. He also said you could bid on them and then if you couldn't get them to work they would give you a refund. Yeah, right. Dart Boards, True, $175 each. Games w/Ms. Pacman, Galaga, Donkey Kong, Pacman, and Mario Brothers. Mortal Kombat, Cyber Ball, Die Hard, Captain America, Lethal Enforcer, Super Mario Brothers, Neo Geos, X Men, and Street Fighter. Ninja Turtles, Dig Doug, 1 Main Game w/30 games, Cherry Master Combo, and Golden T. Deer Hunter, Off Road Challenge, Working Death Rays, Cruzin World Almost every one of these games were bought back by the auction company or had pretty high reserves (Cruizin' World was $1100). The highest priced thing that actually sold was that MAME Cabinet. @75 other items. There were 92 lots of games, although 18-40 were slots and those counter top bar games. Of course there was no official lot sheet, things were sold out of order, and several games were never auctioned because when their power strip was turned on it kicked off the power to the rest of the building. Parts, items, and lots of other items, too numerous too mention. Misc items sold after arcade Auction. That's possible, as I saw a big pile of boards stacked on top of each other in the corner. Almost everyone I saw was pissed by that point in time and had already left.

The Death Race cabinet had marquee and side art and worked so ... I don't know what it's worth, the auctioneer said it was one of only 8 known working ones. Then again, a couple of times he said "well it was just working a minute ago!" about games that clearly had not been turned on all day. I'm glad you didn't come down Dav, it would have been a complete waste of your time.

I thought the joysticks on that one looked a bit odd ...

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?

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 ...

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

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.

I don't know if they're exactly the same, but I've seen similar metal shelves available at Lowes and Home Depot.

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.

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. http://www.volny.cz/dundera/ 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.

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.

Stingray, did you see the Oklahoman last weekend? Tron for $325, Pole Position for $225. I called ... 10 minutes too late. :/

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.

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.

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.

Really thorough and impartial reporting there. You would have thought they might have contacted Atari Age to get their version of the story.

$99 opening bid, $250 BIN. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=6134699155

Actually sir, I believe the Mesquite one is the weekend AFTER that.

Short notice, but there's one in OKC tomorrow, followed by a SuperAuctions one next weekend in Mesquite, TX.

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.

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.

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.