![]() ![]() There is also KLOV but you can find stuff more localized on FB and it has much more stuff there. ![]() Now a days I'd say that places like Facebook marketplace are the best. It’s my listing, so take it with a grain of salt. But you can’t replicate shooters and drivers with a multi. Multicades are great if you like 80s games with a joystick and 2 buttons. That Road Fighters 3D I’m selling was being used in venues as recently as a couple years ago, for example. When they do get beat up through use, graphics and cabinet pieces are often impossible to replace, since they were usually only made for that single game, and they often end up in the trash instead of being restored. Since they don’t require as much maintanence as pins, operators still keep them as long as people are putting quarters or dollar bills in them. Yes, they made a lot of them, but they are run by operators much longer. Yes, they hold their value, as long as you keep them working, and as long as you buy at “hobbyist” price and not at brick and mortar price.Ī lot of the 90s and later arcades are not as numerous on the market as some people would have you believe. It’s not like pinball machines, because they made tens and hundreds of thousands of some games!! They just hover at the same price it seems. They’re not hard to fix because most the games late 90s onwards use computers. They usually sell them decently cheap because they’re busted and abused. I buy them off old operators when I try to dig up some pins. I've also gotten wife approval for a sidewalk to the walkout basement, so it looks like moving this stuff will be much easier next summer. A full on StarWars Battlepod is the same price as a fish tales (but huge, don't need one). These machines are also MUCH cheaper than pinball. I have tried a few different multicades and arcade1ups, but have not done a real machine other than a Golden Tee. I'm loving pinball and have an 8 foot wall with not enough room for pins, but enough for arcades. Were I to pick up something like this original House of the Dead for $1,000, would it hold its value like a pinball machine or am I flushing money down the drain?ĭo things like this "sell/trade" as easy as pinball machines? Could I get one, get bored of it in 6 months and then sell it to buy another one?Īrcade1ups strangely are holding their value and seem to be easy enough to trade. Looking at my local pinside ads I found this ad with a few arcades for sale. Where do you guys look for arcade games? Is their a similar hobbyist site like pinside or is it all craigslist and facebook? I would prefer to buy from fellow hobbiests rather than a brick and mortar store. ![]()
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