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Another Is this arcade worth $300 bucks thread - Bought it!

It's a NeoGeo MVS with a 100 game cartridge.

I have seen it before and tried it out, everything works fine, but it's a little weathered and dirty.

Seller wanted $500, I offered $250, he said $300 last price.

Is this a good price?
 
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I think that's a terrible price. You should try to get one for $150 on the mainland and ship it over.

ETA: Seriously, you need to look at your local market. If that machine was local to me, I'd pay $300 for it in a minute. If I lived in Pennsylvania or Ohio, probably not.
 
Is it a multislot board or a single? For a single slot JAMMA MVS it's "eh". But for a 4-slot it doesn't seem so bad.
 
Thanks. At first wasn't sure if you were serious. I have no idea what these are worth, and I'm not really looking to have another arcade because of space limits. My main concern would be to get my $300 back if I have to sell it.

If I really wanted to have a Neo Geo, then I hear ya, it's way better than buying one off-island and having it shipped. I don't have to have it, just want to get at least $300 if I have to sell it someday.

I think it's the model with the 4 panels (maybe 6?) along the top, and the black bottom half and red top.
 
Yeah it is worth it.

Put it this way, a Neo Geo motherboard is worth $100. The 100 game cartridge is worth $100 too. There is $200 of the $300 right there.
 
Yeah it is worth it.

Put it this way, a Neo Geo motherboard is worth $100. The 100 game cartridge is worth $100 too. There is $200 of the $300 right there.

this: you would recoup most of your money parting it out...

empty cabs in hawaii im sure go for $100
$100 for the cart
$100 for the mobo

Monitor? prolly toast but who cares you are at least breaking even on value.
 
Again it depends on the market. What is game availability like in Hawaii? Difficult to put a value on any particular game without knowing that. Also depends on the cabinet. Is it a Dedicated 4 slot or just some random conversion cabinet with a single slot board and a 100 cart in it?
 
The guy selling it sent me a photo. Not a very good photo, but I think you can see that it's not the 2 or 4 cartridge MVS that I thought it was.

What is this?

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OK, so as parts, the motherboard is worth $100, the 100-in-1 game is worth $100. So is the cabinet, monitor, coins, controllers worth $100?

Now that we have a photo, just wondering if I can still get my $300 back even if I have to part it out on eBay (except the cabinet and monitor of course, too much to ship from HI).

I'd still like to have the arcade, I'm just thinking down the road if I have to make space for that I won't lose much reselling it.

BTW, I think the "No Trespassing" sign was because he'd find the neighborhood kids would just walk into his house and play the game without permission.
 
That looks decent. You could probably easily resell it for the same money without parting it out at all.
 
all neo geos ( i think) take a cartridge. Some are one slot, two slot, 4 slot etc. Im going to guess that the machine in question is a one slot conversion or custom build.

A one slot will still work just fine. Bieng it has a multi cart in it you probhably wont swap it out for other titles, but its nice to know you can if you get bored with it... A 2 or 4 slot gives you the oppertunity to switch games on the fly, a one slot you can still switch games but you have to do it manually. THink big huge cartridge that goes in from the top super nintendo style.

That looks like a dynamo "cut corner" cabinet. "cut corner" refers to the control panel notches. Pretty popular cabinet. Some companies used that as thier dedicated cabinet but that was also a popular cabinet for ops to buy new (empty) and build your own game. Such as a neo geo or whatever other popular conversion or kit games the op decided was popular at that time.


Does it have a 19 or 25" monitor? For $300, if it works well and its a 25 inch, id say thats a good deal. If its a 19, meh. However i do need to keep in mind that you are in hawaii. Its not like it is here in the 48 where we can make a road trip to another state to get games. Taking your limited market into consideration, if you want it, grab it.
 
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All of the arcade ones are mvs, even the single slot. The home version was called aes. Looks like a conversion as it isn't one of the normal neo cabinets I'm use to seeing.

With the multi game board you pretty much only want to run it in the system so it doesn't really matter for you how many slots it has. From the picture it looks like it only has 2 buttons above the control panel. Those would be player one and player 2 start buttons. Prob has a single slot neo geo board in it. The multi slot boards would have an extra button for game select. Best way to tell though is just look at the neo geo board and see how many cart slots are on it.

As long as the thing runs fine and you want it I don't see that price being that bad.
 
The picture make me think it's a single slot. I don't see any "Select" button but hard to tell with that picture. There was a special 1xx -1 game made for the Single slot systems that I've seen come up before on these forums. It can be made to work in 2/4/6 slots i believe thou.

Might be a little off from the 100 mark on the 100-1 board. As far as the cab and if it's a single slot, well not sure you'll get 100 on each of those. But then again it all depends on your local market.
 
I feel like at $300 that I might be overpaying by $100, considering it's a single-slot, maybe not original cabinet, and possibly a 19" monitor (hard to tell from pic, but that bezel looks pretty large).

Well, I've agreed to $300 already and am going to pick it up tomorrow. I hope to get $100 of enjoyment out of it ($0.25/game so I just have to play it 400 times to break even).


I'm kinda banking on several rounds of QE and the money supply to increase and thereby devalue the dollar, so maybe in 2013 I can get $18,000 for it.
 
The craigslist ad says he has more than one.

Good detective work (although there's only a handful of arcades for the whole state on CL -- that Crazy Taxi arcade in Pahoa has been listed for probably 6 months)

http://honolulu.craigslist.org/big/vgm/2895135069.html

I think that the ad with the Neo Geo was his ad when he had 2 arcades to sell. I already bought the one from him he said had "Tekken" on it back in October. It was a Dynamo-Z cabinet with a Tekken marquee, but it was actually an iCade 60-in-1 that needed the monitor tuned up, cold solder joints reflowed, and the screen degaussed.

But I did ask him if this Neo Geo was the same one I saw back in October, because I thought the one I saw had a red cabinet with SNK side art and was a MVS-4. But maybe I'm mistaken after searching Google for pics of Neo Geo cabinets and maybe I'm getting my wires crossed. My memory really has been sucking lately -- telling people the same stories over and over, etc.

Anyway, whether or not he had 2 Neo Geos for sale at one time, now he only has the one Neo Geo in the ad. Maybe this guy is buying games from an arcade one at a time and flipping them. I have no idea. It just comes down to do I want to buy this one for $300.
 
It's a NeoGeo MVS with a 100 game cartridge.

I have seen it before and tried it out, everything works fine, but it's a little weathered and dirty.

Seller wanted $500, I offered $250, he said $300 last price.

Is this a good price?

Funny, I had the same experience. I got my Neo geo woody for $300 (with a 100-in-1) delivered (he was close) so I don't think it's a bad deal at all; then again I'm a huge Metal Slug Fan and I was gitty to have all of them (except #5) included in the multiboard.
 
take dog with you and you might get a $100 discount lol...just kidding of coarse.

some hawaiian num num sticks sounds great right now (no not ice... bra)
 
I feel like at $300 that I might be overpaying by $100, considering it's a single-slot, maybe not original cabinet, and possibly a 19" monitor (hard to tell from pic, but that bezel looks pretty large).

IMO a working NeoGeo is worth $300 regardless of whether or not the monitor is 19" or 25" as long as the cab is solid and devoid of major flaws. While I understand the fact that no one wants to overpay for anything at some point you just have to acknowledge that a working game in a solid cab is almost always a fair deal at $300. If you have to sell it down the line and only get $250 then so be it.

The cab is a Dynamo 'cut corner' cab fwiw. I've seen NEO's in that cab before, but I'm assuming they're all conversions.

I'm kinda banking on several rounds of QE and the money supply to increase and thereby devalue the dollar, so maybe in 2013 I can get $18,000 for it.

Well if that's the way you think than you should be buying silver at $31.64/oz right now ;). It's put in quite a base at this level though the chart doesn't signify it's ready to break-out either :p.
 
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