Sad Day today!! Please read this tread!!! Atari Arabian!!

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Permalink Reply by paladin-ng on November 10, 2009 at 11:44am

I feel your pain. at an auction about 2 weeks ago, I saw a donkey kong... well I though it was a donkey kong... so I excitedly went up to it (as I was interested in getting a DK). as I approached it I think I saw burgertime (I game I DO love though) running... and was like "WTF?" then I saw the crappy "60-1" menu, followed by the ultimate insult... the DK CRT was replaced by an LCD mounted at a sharp angle towards the viewer. I though I was going to throw up.

in this case the guy lost out, he bought it back as I think the last real bidder stopped at $600.00 so he had to pay $30-$40 dollars to do the listing, the buy back + the wasted time and effort to transport the game back and forth.

the sad thing is these multi-games do sell for good prices, at the auction I was at, decent ones where going for over $1000+,Where as I saw a couple 9+ (near MINT) Ms. Pacmans go for ONLY about $350... heck a paperboy went for $300.

People like there multigames. Cannot blame them either, if you like the classics but are not as "purist" as most of us are. 60 games is much more efficient than one I suppose. Especially if you have limited space.

anyway... I feel your pain on the conversion of a classic to a multigame.

-brian

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Permalink Reply by Captain Pinball on November 10, 2009 at 12:17pm

Brian
I agree the multicade is a great space saver and good seller. We build multicades in our shop but we convert old pac mans with horrrible cabinets and just repaint black. They made 1000's of Pac Cabs, I just hate seeing a rare game like this one get butchered. At least he did not paint the entire cab black.. Maybe someone could buy it and restore it back. Wishfull thinking anyway..
Greg

paladin-ng said:

I feel your pain. at an auction about 2 weeks ago, I saw a donkey kong... well I though it was a donkey kong... so I excitedly went up to it (as I was interested in getting a DK). as I approached it I think I saw burgertime (I game I DO love though) running... and was like "WTF?" then I saw the crappy "60-1" menu, followed by the ultimate insult... the DK CRT was replaced by an LCD mounted at a sharp angle towards the viewer. I though I was going to throw up.

in this case the guy lost out, he bought it back as I think the last real bidder stopped at $600.00 so he had to pay $30-$40 dollars to do the listing, the buy back + the wasted time and effort to transport the game back and forth.

the sad thing is these multi-games do sell for good prices, at the auction I was at, decent ones where going for over $1000+,Where as I saw a couple 9+ (near MINT) Ms. Pacmans go for ONLY about $350... heck a paperboy went for $300.

People like there multigames. Cannot blame them either, if you like the classics but are not as "purist" as most of us are. 60 games is much more efficient than one I suppose. Especially if you have limited space.

anyway... I feel your pain on the conversion of a classic to a multigame.

-brian

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Permalink Reply by Shane on November 10, 2009 at 5:11pm

I think i just threw up in my mouth after seeing that ad.

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Permalink Reply by Trevor on November 10, 2009 at 8:28pm

If you think that is bad check this one out 1983 Atari Star Wars Stand Up Arcade lounge Chair #170405315397

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Permalink Reply by paladin-ng on November 10, 2009 at 9:50pm

wow.. on one hand I'm really offended by that... on another hand... I kind of want that chair.
I mean if I was to have a chair in an arcade/game room... that would be the chair to have.

-brian

Trevor said:

If you think that is bad check this one out 1983 Atari Star Wars Stand Up Arcade lounge Chair #170405315397

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Permalink Reply by Captain Pinball on November 11, 2009 at 11:27am

The owner of the Arabian. He told me the Arabian game sucked anyway and that is why he hacked it up. He offered to sell me the wiring harness.. Nice Guy!! NOT!! He is actually a real jerk..He got real mad when I told him that he ruined a great classic that would fetch more on E-Bay then his stuipid multicade..

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Permalink Reply by Brian Hanifin on November 11, 2009 at 3:16pm

I would much rather have a Star Wars arcade game in my game room, than a chair that takes up the same amount of space. ;-)

GREG SMITH said:

He got real mad when I told him that he ruined a great classic that would fetch more on E-Bay then his stuipid multicade.

I don't know why he would be offended by that statement. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Captain Pinball on November 11, 2009 at 6:37pm

I put it a tad better then that. I did not use the word stupid at first. My follow up question may have said stupid. :)

Brian Hanifin said:

I would much rather have a Star Wars arcade game in my game room, than a chair that takes up the same amount of space. ;-)

GREG SMITH said:

He got real mad when I told him that he ruined a great classic that would fetch more on E-Bay then his stuipid multicade.

I don't know why he would be offended by that statement. ;-)

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