FS Game: Arcade games from the HBO show "Silicon Valley"

[Grantman]

Arcade games from the HBO show "Silicon Valley"

These are screen-used props from the HBO show Silicon Valley being auctioned off by screenbid.com. They come with certificates of authenticity.
Auctions end this Saturday and Sunday (December 21-22, 2019).
Note that there is a 24% fee ("buyer's premium") added to the price, plus a handling fee ($15) and shipping from Hawthorne, CA if you can't pick it up.

Tempest
https://auction.screenbid.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/126/lot/69939/

Asteroids
https://auction.screenbid.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/126/lot/69938/

Flash Pinball Machine
https://auction.screenbid.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/126/lot/69940/

Fireball Pinball Machine
https://auction.screenbid.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/126/lot/69957/

Air Hockey Table
https://auction.screenbid.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/126/lot/70219/

 

[Wonka]

I would love to be a fly on the wall when these machines show up at the winning bidders house with LCD screens in them

 

[andrewb]

Nothing said about what's inside, or whether they work at all or not. (Even if there was a dummy LCD in them, piping out fake video.) At least for the Asteroids and Tempest. The pins look to say they're working. (So I guess I should assume the others are not.)

Have fun paying $2000 for an empty cab.

 

[Wonka]

No self respecting production company will shoot a scene with arcade games using CRT monitors.
You'll get re-fresh rates being shown in post.

 

[Grantman]

I haven't seen the last season (6) of Silicon Valley yet so I don't know if the games were turned on during the scenes or not. No scan lines for a pinball machine or air hockey

 

[jlpmauldin]

Interesting big cone buttons on that Tempest.

 

[Brick Top]

Interesting big cone buttons on that Tempest.

It appears to be a picture of some sort of scale model. Not a real game.

 

[andrewb]

It appears to be a picture of some sort of scale model. Not a real game.

Yeah, that's the Replicade Tempest.

https://newwavetoys.com/products/replicade-x-tempest

 

[matman]

Ultimately you are buying tv production history not an original arcade game.

 

[amr]

And paying 24% "premium"...

 

[geech]

Don't recall seeing a Tempest in that episode. Here's the screen cap of the 'roids.


Pffft. Space Invaders. Astro Smash, bitches!

https://auction.screenbid.com/view-...lot/69825/?url=/view-auctions/catalog/id/126/

 

[Coindork]

Ultimately you are buying tv production history not an original arcade game.

Find me a machine used is a cult classic movie like Goonies when Chunk is in the pizza parlor and I'll tell you that it ads value.

These will sell for more than they are worth and be worth less in the future.

 

[matman]

Find me a machine used is a cult classic movie like Goonies when Chunk is in the pizza parlor and I'll tell you that it ads value.



These will sell for more than they are worth and be worth less in the future.

Yeah. I'm not saying what they should be worth but more of saying this is a prop sale not a classic arcade machine sale.

 

[barnum]

ad says

"This vintage working Classic Tempest Arcade Game is for the ultimate fan."

based on that it should be vintage and working right?

ala not a prop, not a shell..

 

[Wonka]

ad says
"This vintage working Classic Tempest Arcade Game is for the ultimate fan."
based on that it should be vintage and working right?
ala not a prop, not a shell..

"Based" on the images they have uploaded, I'd say their credibility is shot right off the bat.
On top of which these auction houses most of the time have the wit of a homeless person when it comes to accurately describing vintage collectibles.
They normally are the kind of Einsteins that determine an opening bid for their auctions based upon what sellers on EbAy are "asking" for similar items.
You know,. . . Like an 8500.00 Paperboy . . .

 

[Grantman]

They updated the photo of the Tempest. I'm tempted, but it's not worth shipping it across the country. FYI, this item has a reserve price (I'm guessing $1k).

 

[kspiff]

Ask them if they would consider parting them out.

 

[Scott C]

They updated the photo of the Tempest. I'm tempted, but it's not worth shipping it across the country. FYI, this item has a reserve price (I'm guessing $1k).

That picture, at least to me, looks like it's intentionally scaled down (IE. A really mini cabinet photoed to look full sized). Oh, the monitor isn't on, but the marquee and coin door lights are.

Scott C.

 

[geech]

Asteroids sold for $1400. +$336 buyer's premium

Flash pin went for $1000, +$240 BP

Tempest: $800 + $192 BP

Fireball pin: $850, +$204 BP

Air hockey table: $125, +$30 BP

The Always Blue ball: $2300 + $552 BP

Gavin Belson's "vintage" solder station, multimeter, etc. This would have been worth the $75 winning bid to see if any of it actually worked.

https://auction.screenbid.com/view-...-auctions/catalog/id/126/?page=4&sort=6&dir=0

Gilfoyle's Tres Comas bottle set (This set includes one Tres Comas Tequila bottle, one gorgeous white comma bottle cap, 2 shot glasses, 2 "B the B" baseball caps (one white/one black) and one burgundy Tres Comas handkerchief with Russ's face on both sides.)??

Sold for $4,400. + $1056 BP

https://auction.screenbid.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/126/

 

[kspiff]

It's not like any of this stuff belonged to Dio.