FB - 3rd Party Cant help it... we are now customizing Arcade1ups now???

Yep - arcade1up modding was a thing right out of the gate. I have personally modded and sold about 20 of them over the past four years. I pick them up cheap second hand, sell the pcb and stock monitor, and then mod them with a 17" dell LCD and a pandora box or 60 in 1 pcb. Sell them for $500-600. I average $300-400 profit on each one. Its an easy, fun, side hustle that supports my hobby - collecting real OG arcade games and 8bit and 16bit retro games. :)

The fridge mod itself is pretty neat, but not $1200 neat. That's crazy, but there is a sucker born every minute :)
 
Last edited:
$1200 with a fridge? That's a MUCH better bargain than $1100 without one.

Sold "has is"
1686697623546.png
 
The concept is cool, for a 1UP. The price is a different story. At least the fridge hasn't been done to a classic game.

Don't any of you jabronis get any ideas, now, hear??
 
The $1200 price reflects the price of the refrigerator.

We all know the 1Up is worth around $50.
 
True KLOV confessions: a Walmart near me clearanced out their stock really early in the initial run. I picked up an Asteroids for cheap, literally laughed at how bad the stock hardware was, and gutted it immediately (the only hardware item I kept was the speaker); sold off the parts on eBay for half of what I'd paid for the whole cab. Rebuilt the control panel with a bunch of spare parts I had leftover from never-built projects (Mag-Stik Plus, an iPac, some TrueLeaf buttons) and a DIY spinner. Threw in a $20 third-hand Dell and a $5 thrift shop 17" screen, loaded it up as a Hackintosh with my heavily-tweaked version of SDLMAME and EmuLaunch. The cab fits in a little spot between bookcases in my office, good for a quick game now and then. Total expense, maybe a hundred bucks (at least before I got a wild hair and added a trio of volcano button replicas).
 
alfonzotan said:
True KLOV confessions: a Walmart near me clearanced out their stock really early in the initial run. I picked up an Asteroids for cheap, literally laughed at how bad the stock hardware was, and gutted it immediately (the only hardware item I kept was the speaker); sold off the parts on eBay for half of what I'd paid for the whole cab. Rebuilt the control panel with a bunch of spare parts I had leftover from never-built projects (Mag-Stik Plus, an iPac, some TrueLeaf buttons) and a DIY spinner. Threw in a $20 third-hand Dell and a $5 thrift shop 17" screen, loaded it up as a Hackintosh with my heavily-tweaked version of SDLMAME and EmuLaunch. The cab fits in a little spot between bookcases in my office, good for a quick game now and then. Total expense, maybe a hundred bucks (at least before I got a wild hair and added a trio of volcano button replicas).
Click to expand...
Oh, Im not against the 1ups... honestly. I picked up the ms Pacman 30th for $150... and I was going to flip it... but after playing it my thought was simply... Im building a 50x28 arcade in the new house... and I have a lot of young nieces and nephews that can ruin this learning how to treat my real arcades...lol

Seeing it modded made me laugh is all... I had no idea! Still laughing about the fridge...lol

I have an idea fir my own mod... want to see it through before I show it off....lol
 
Dewman said:
Oh, Im not against the 1ups... honestly. I picked up the ms Pacman 30th for $150... and I was going to flip it... but after playing it my thought was simply... Im building a 50x28 arcade in the new house... and I have a lot of young nieces and nephews that can ruin this learning how to treat my real arcades...lol

Seeing it modded made me laugh is all... I had no idea! Still laughing about the fridge...lol

I have an idea fir my own mod... want to see it through before I show it off....lol
Click to expand...

I picked up a Star Wars on clearance, after hearing a lot that it was the best-implemented of all the 1Ups (and I agreed with that assessment, although I haven't bothered playing very many of them). Kept it for a year and then sold it for 3X what I'd paid for it, which I call a win-win.
 
most of the threads I read in the repair section now, I wish I could just tell people to buy these instead. I continue to perform my civic duty in helping them fix the real things however.
 
They have been doing this since day one. You wouldn't believe the cottage industry that exists on custom graphics, upgrade parts, and things like this.
 
Speaking of modded 1Ups, found this ad today:

1687672655506.png

I've been tempted to ask him: if every game is modded with over 10,000 games, then why would I need to buy 15 of them when I would really just need one?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

eBay - Mine FA(buy-it-now): Legendary Wings PCB
Replies
1
Views
233
brmorr
brmorr
greedycrisp
FB - 3rd Party DeKalb, IL: Death Race, now $8500
2
Replies
22
Views
2K
greedycrisp
greedycrisp
alfonzotan
FB - 3rd Party Kickman no game boards now $350 Nashville
Replies
3
Views
642
alfonzotan
alfonzotan
greedycrisp
CL - 3rd Party Oxford, MI: Atari Night Driver, now $450
Replies
7
Views
796
drcurtis
drcurtis
greedycrisp
Auctions (Other) Somebody should jump on this now...
Replies
12
Views
1K
Hoppy2021
Hoppy2021
Back
Top Bottom