Buying a game that you actually played as a kid

TonyH

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I had a chance to buy a pinball that I actually put quarters in as a kid. Does any one else have anything like that or would it matter. I of course bought it a very nice stern galaxy not a pinball I was looking for but opportunity knocked and of course I got it paid 400.00 for it I guess not to bad but he wasn't giving it away. Working just needs cleaned and waxed .Was in the same home for 25yrs so that always helps just when I went to go look at it he starts off by saying it hadn't been turned on in 5-6 years amazing it fired right up.
 
I recently bought the same Pole Position that myself and my friends used to put quarters in nearly 20 years ago. It was not in as good as condition as the one I already own, so out the door it went - to a friend, but not one who played it previously.
 
I played a ton of Berzerk every summer at a local rec center when I was a kid. The Berzerk I bought some 14 years later was just a couple of miles away from where I used to play. The guy that sold it to me bought it from someone else a few months before I got it from him. Unfortunately, he didn't know the machine's history.

It's very possible that it's the exact same machine (I like to think so), which makes the sentimental value of my Berzerk priceless.
 
I might be buying the bowling machine that I played on in college. The bar owner pulled it and put the gambling machines in. The customers bitched about it so he asked the op to put it back. The put a digital machine in which is why I might get the older one.
 
My Night Driver cockpit came from the Seattle Center Fun Forest. I've always really enjoyed playing that game and I'm sure I remember playing it down there. So it seems very likely that it is the same game.

I was told my Rip Off came from there too but I really don't have any memory of playing that game when I was younger. I should have. It's such a cool game.
 
I have the actual Pole Position Cockpit that came out of a Major Magics Pizza that I used to pay to play. It still has the corporate inventory stickers on the boards. Little did I know back then that it would be sitting in my basement some day...
 
I think he specifically means the actual, physical machine that you played on location in an arcade or restaurant years ago.

I guess the sentimental value ultimately made it priceless. Its cool to hear other people have tracked down the same games they put a quarter into as a kid.
 
I think he specifically means the actual, physical machine that you played on location in an arcade or restaurant years ago.


Yeah I can't do that unless anyone knows who the owner of Aldin's castle in Granite Run Mall was and who he sold his games to after they closed their doors some time in the early 90's.
 
My one stoplight home town had a pizza joint that was on a Williams route in the late 80's to mid 90's (stuff was about 2-3 years old by the time it got there). So I can't afford most of the shit I played as a Kid.
 
I was actually considering starting a thread like this a couple of weeks ago when I by chance picked up the exact same Neo Geo 4 Slot I had played quite a bit from when I was a teenager. It had been placed by a local op in a nearby theater arcade, and it sat there for years until it was presumably removed when the dedicated arcade in the theater was closed.

Anyway, I ran into a vendor who had bought out a local op, and was getting rid of a few cabs in rather terrible condition. One of them was this very same Neo that I spent hours in front of, which I could tell due to the same control panel overlay which had been cut, and other markings on the beat up CP. It even still had the same four carts that apparently had always been in the cab, although at some point it was converted into a single slot when the four slot board stopped working (which he included), and had the marquee removed and replaced with a hacked up monstrosity.

Considering I dropped enough quarters into it to probably buy it back then, I figure it only makes sense to be restoring it now. :)
 
theres only one game i would like too see again that i played when i was older.

I used too play Speed Rumbler at a local Store near by my house. They had that game and a Super Mario Brothers, and a Mini Golf.
 
Back in the very early 80's my best friends dad had a screen printing shop a couple doors down from Good Time Charlies Arcade; so you can imagine that was pretty much the center of our universe.

Fast forward to 20 years later, I stop at a garage sale where there are a bunch of games selling cheap. I bought them all and asked where they'd come from, it turns out they were from Good Time Charlies.

I kept the Defender and gave the Asteroids to my best friend, we still have them and it's cool since those were the two games we played the most; especially the Asteroids.
 
i bought out the operator that owned the arcade that i grew up in in the 80's So ive owned many of the games that i played back then, still have a few of them. I even had the ms pac that i played back then, only problem was that i didnt know which one it was. I ened up with 20 ms pacs, and one of them was the one that i played as a kid, i just didnt know which one it was. still have the SW cockpit, DL, SA, and a couple more
 
I bought a Popeye in Oct. of '05, it was my 2nd game. It was the same one I had played almost 20 years prior in Salisbury, MA. The name of the arcade (still there) is CareFree Arcade. I ended up selling it to a friend of mine 2 years later.
 
i wish i had been one of the little shits that carved my name in the games but i was not so i dont think i ever played the ones i have.

but i have a lead on someone that bought 12 of the games from sams town. if i can get ANY game from there, its a guaranteed that i played it.
 
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