Candy Cab in Missouri or Midwest?here in Missouri or Midwest.

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Candy Cab in Missouri or Midwest?here in Missouri or Midwest.

Just want to know how rare it is to find a Candy cab here in Missouri or the midwest

if you have one where and how did you get it?

Im wanting one in the future but not right now but would like to hear other peoples stories.
 
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were are you at in missouri? ed

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not wanting to buy right now just wanting to know how rare it is to find one around here and the story on how it got here or where it came from.

If you have one pics would be nice so other people that read the thread can get better ideas on what some look like around the area.
 
I used to own one I got from another local klov member. Overall they are pretty hard to find in the midwest though.
 
man hard hu well ill probably be going to california in july and it seems they mostly are all in california so hopefully i can at least bring back the shell to one. Since they are more rare over here would they be able to sell fast in the future if i decide to not want it no more.
 
I have had 4 or 5 candy cabs over the years and I am in the Chicagoland area. I bought one up in WI, got the other one locally, got another one locally in a bulk buy. Then with a friend, we got a few of these palleted up from CA and shipped here. I still have a Capcom Impress, but all the other ones I bought through the years are gone(sold).

They are not exactly rare in the Midwest, just a little harder to find if you don't have them shipped in from CA.

Brian
 
I have had 4 or 5 candy cabs over the years and I am in the Chicagoland area. I bought one up in WI, got the other one locally, got another one locally in a bulk buy. Then with a friend, we got a few of these palleted up from CA and shipped here. I still have a Capcom Impress, but all the other ones I bought through the years are gone(sold).

They are not exactly rare in the Midwest, just a little harder to find if you don't have them shipped in from CA.

Brian

4 to 5 wow cool you must really like them.
 
I found my blast city about a hour away from me. It was the American version which can as sega bass fishing and I'm now in the process of converting it back to a nice blast city. You can also get then for allot cheaper as sega bass fishing. I paid around 100$ for mine and will put about 250$ into so I'm still comming out cheaper
 
I found my blast city about a hour away from me. It was the American version which can as sega bass fishing and I'm now in the process of converting it back to a nice blast city. You can also get then for allot cheaper as sega bass fishing. I paid around 100$ for mine and will put about 250$ into so I'm still comming out cheaper

Thanks for the info so basically i would just need to swap out the CP. The bass fishing that you have what type of system dose it use?

ive seen one for sale at the NEO Geo forums and might be interested in it now if its still their when and if i go to california in July.
 
In St. Charles is a store called Game Trader owned by a guy named Brian, and he sold a bunch of them out of his store. I almost bought one from him but didn't have the transportation at that time. He still has a few sitting in his store. Don't know if he is selling them or not. The store is on the south side of 70 between Zumbehl and 94 just past the new bridge over the highway, next to Glad Rags.
 
In St. Charles is a store called Game Trader owned by a guy named Brian, and he sold a bunch of them out of his store. I almost bought one from him but didn't have the transportation at that time. He still has a few sitting in his store. Don't know if he is selling them or not. The store is on the south side of 70 between Zumbehl and 94 just past the new bridge over the highway, next to Glad Rags.

The one by chuck E Cheese right? i might just have to go down their and see how much he wants and start saving up if i see an interesting one. Thanks for the info
 
The one by chuck E Cheese right?

That's the place. One word of caution, if you don't smoke, you might have to hold your breath in there. He also has a lot of import games for most home systems and will cut you a deal if you purchase multiple items. Brian's a good guy, but strange. But then again, who isn't?
 
I lucked out. When I was stationed in Japan I bought my first arcade machine which was a Blast City. I've seen a few candies over the past couple of years go for sale in the WI area. There is also 3 other members in WI who also own a blast city. Just got to be in the right place at the right time I guess. Maybe look out for auctions? One thing about candy cabs, they have the best monitors IMHO.
 
I lucked out. When I was stationed in Japan I bought my first arcade machine which was a Blast City. I've seen a few candies over the past couple of years go for sale in the WI area. There is also 3 other members in WI who also own a blast city. Just got to be in the right place at the right time I guess. Maybe look out for auctions? One thing about candy cabs, they have the best monitors IMHO.

do you get benifits for being stationed in japan say shipping for free :) If so i haf a friend right now in japan for the marines maybe he can purchase one for me and get it deliverd to my place :p would be awesome if it was possible.

I called up game trader but no answer this was about 20 min before they opened up i will try later.
 
Dang called game trader right now and they dont have any says he hasent had any in a long time.
 
Dang called game trader right now and they dont have any says he hasent had any in a long time.
Yeah, I wasn't sure if he was still selling them, I know he has a couple cabs the last time I was there a couple weeks ago and they aren't turned on or anything. I don't even know if they work or not anymore. Maybe they are just his personal ones now.
 
The candy cabinets are out there. I just bought an american Blast City (sega bass fishing) for $300 which being local pick up for me in indiana thats quite a nice deal. Getting info together to convert it into my shmups cabinet so it can join its rightful ranks next to my Neo 25 candy cab.
 
do you get benifits for being stationed in japan say shipping for free :) If so i haf a friend right now in japan for the marines maybe he can purchase one for me and get it deliverd to my place :p would be awesome if it was possible.

I called up game trader but no answer this was about 20 min before they opened up i will try later.

Well I bought it back in '08, and when I moved back to the states in 2010 I packed it with my house hold goods. Yes the military ships household goods back for free, will take about 2 months. If you are married, the more shit you can bring/move around. And Japan does an excellent job of packing and shipping. It's when it gets to the states that you start worrying.
 
Well I bought it back in '08, and when I moved back to the states in 2010 I packed it with my house hold goods. Yes the military ships household goods back for free, will take about 2 months. If you are married, the more shit you can bring/move around. And Japan does an excellent job of packing and shipping. It's when it gets to the states that you start worrying.

Wow thats sweet that they ship it for free. I would just forget about the household goods altogether and import all the ones I could :p I would asume they are way cheaper over their since the cabs are everywhere right?
 
Wow thats sweet that they ship it for free. I would just forget about the household goods altogether and import all the ones I could :p I would asume they are way cheaper over their since the cabs are everywhere right?

No. :) I when I first started to look for a cab, I went to Akihabara to look for some cabs for sale. G-front had a few and they were not in best of shape nor clean. Same with mak-jap, and they wanted a full grand in YEN! Now back then the $ was a lot stronger then the YEN, so that wasn't really the issue. But no way was I to pay top YEN for something not up to par. Japanese are real good about keeping things pristine and these places were not doing so.

Finally after some forum searching I ran into a guy in Japan who gave me some contact numbers and a couple e-mails to this arcade warehouse, it was also a lot closer to where I lived. I lived near Yokohama, and this place was in Kawasaki, vice a long trip to Tokyo. So I get invited to the warehouse to look over a few cabs and out of 2-3 Blast Cities, I picked one and tested it out.

They told me they would clean if from the inside out and have it delivered to me in about 3 days. I went on a Monday, and Wednesday after work I had them deliver it to me. It was $1,000 including S&H to the inside of my house. They re-assembled it and showed me all the ins and outs of the machine. Gave me the keys and the original instruction manual.

Back in '08 I would say I got it for about $800 with the awesome YEN conversion back then. Now?!! LOL If you were to get one out there you had better TRY to haggle with them and use the YEN exchange as a valid excuse. Japan however is hard to bargain with unless you know some locals or people who know them. Unlike the other places in Asia you can't use the walk away method, they are real solid on whatever they say they want. But what's there to lose if you try?

Another thing... They could be more lean on the price since these candy cabs are slowly being phased out for the newer HD cabs. All the newer games right now need HD. As good as the tri-sync monitors are, they still don't display the newer games properly. They are mostly used for shooters that are still being made, along with regular sprite games or classics.
 
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