Bagman Cab - What to do with it?

[Phetishboy]

Bagman is fairly rare to find and super bagman even more. All of us KLOV'ers need to start doing a bit more preservation and less MAME-ing of cabinets.

I just picked up a super bagman PCB and it took me 3 years to find one and actually get it on an auction. Most of the SB PCBs are selling in the $100-140 range and bagmans are $50+. The only cabs I've seen are a few on KLOV over the last 4-5 years. Please restore it or sell it to someone who will.

I'll say they're pretty rare. I got my Bagman 4 years ago from a CL pickup in Rockford, MN. It is the only one I have ever seen for sale in this state in 5+ years. Now Tutankham on the other hand, another Stern Gem in a very similar cabinet, seems to pop up at least 1-2 times a year around these parts.

 

[orion3311]

If anyone's interested in buying or trading for something I'd prob be up for it. Again this isn't a pristine cab but those who restore would prob have no problem fixing it up.

 

[Schusler]

I always wondered how Bagman did in the cades back then??? Being a little punk back then I know I couldn't figure this game out! The game's difficulty might have to do with the high turnover rate for conversions...

I'm stumped on Pooyan though. I seriously remember seeing this game only once BITD... Maybe even rare back then??? Or.... maybe another failure?

 

[SanTe]

I'll say they're pretty rare. I got my Bagman 4 years ago from a CL pickup in Rockford, MN. It is the only one I have ever seen for sale in this state in 5+ years. Now Tutankham on the other hand, another Stern Gem in a very similar cabinet, seems to pop up at least 1-2 times a year around these parts.

It's the opposite in the Pacific Northwest. I've seen Bagman come up 2 or 3 times over the last 18 months but I've never seen a Tutankham for sale (although I know a local collector owns one). I've never seen a Super Bagman anywhere except in pictures.

 

[GunSmoke Guy]

If you want to sell it, I remember Gunsmoke Guy up in New York was looking for a Bagman cab last summer...

holly crap good memory! I do still want one... And I would trade you for it or buy it from you!

 

[orion3311]

Well...I managed to haul the cab up from storage and pushed and shoved it into the garage. Then I took out the box o parts I got for it and gave it a name. I also ripped out the jamma harness that was in it, although considering I found out I need a filter board, and how the current harness is cut in several places, it might be best to just convert to jamma with an adapter. We'll see. The cuts can easily be repaired by me, some caffeine, and some molexes.

(crappy cell pic attached)

Yes the cpo is fubar'd, I also have the original I'll prob replace it with. Not sure what happened there (wasn't me)!

Damn you restoration types!

 

[orion3311]

Anybody interested in this as-is? I may need some room. I think I have about $100 into it (board, marquee, control panel) so I'd let it go to break even, for an extra $40 I'll throw in a monitor.

The only part I'm missing to make it work is a filter board to adapt the board to the harness I think, and even so I considered just ripping out the harness and converting it to Jamma as the original harness is still there but pretty chopped up (control panel and coin door ends are lopped off). I can try to test the board and/or make a jamma adapter for it.

 

[neopolss]

It's funny. I picked up a stern cab about a year ago, couldn't figure out what it was. Finally I decided to just gut the entire cab and rebuild it from the ground up. It was covered in tar and reeked of bar, and everything touched was sticky. The Stern harness that waas still in it had very visible burn marks, letting me know that its original game met a grisly demise. Today I finally get to the control panel and rip off layer after layer of cpos, and what's at the bottom?

Bagman.

 

[neopolss]

Crap. It's Super Bagman. Just pulled the final layer on the cpo, and lo and behold, super bagman is staring me in the face. I almost have a sacred duty to restore this cab or sell it to someone who plans to. There must be something about KC auctions that I always end up buying rare cabs. That or I'm attracted to conversions that look like they have a story.