Celebrity game collectors??

[john2654]

Probably long enough now, but Nicolas Cage bought my Mortal Kombat 3 in a MKII cabinet.

Didn't deal with him directly. It sold on ebay. Though I did stamp Nicolas Cage and his address in Las Vegas on the outside of the pallet and the pickup person said, is that THEE Nicolas Cage?

The deal even came with some paperwork about disclosing information... No, I will not tell you where it is. HA!

 

[GORK]

The deal even came with some paperwork about disclosing information... No, I will not tell you where it is. HA!

I'm sure that property has been foreclosed on and the Mortal Kombat 3 sold at auction so its probably safe to tell us

 

[Wundercade]

I read somewhere that Daymond John is an arcade collector/enthusiast.

 

[whitefox]

I don't know about $700 but mine is in pretty good shape. Damn, and I have a decent game/nerd connection going on too (2 more shelves of this type of books)

 

[thegleek]

I don't know about $700 but mine is in pretty good shape. Damn, and I have a decent game/nerd connection going on too (2 more shelves of this type of books)

I have no clue what the hype is over this lame book!!!

But I just can't see it being worth the $120 or more to purchase this.

$20-30 maybe, yes.

I'd do $50 shipped tops, maybe.

What are your thoughts on its worth? Once you've read it, is it boring?

Do you often go back to it and re-read it over and over and over again?

Would you bury it with your upon death?

 

[DreamTR]

Jack White and Ryan Adams are both major pinball guys, they pull a lot of the machines out of the midwest. And didn't someone on here have a James Hetfield (Metallica) machine with his high score?

Jack has 7-9 pinball machines in his place. I know because I have worked on them in the past. He also bought a few of them locally.

Ryan Adams is more into video and has some pretty rare stuff.

 

[DreamTR]

Gary Coleman owned an arcade in Santa Monica for 2-3 years...it was sometime in the mid 90s or so. I think it may have closed right before I moved to California from Chicago.

 

[thegleek]

Jack has 7-9 pinball machines in his place. I know because I have worked on them in the past. He also bought a few of them locally.

He was born in my hometown, DETROIT! Too bad he moved to some lame city
called Nashville. What's there to do in Tennessee anyways? make moonshine?
smoke meth? sounds boring. yee haw!

 

[whitefox]

I have no clue what the hype is over this lame book!!!

But I just can't see it being worth the $120 or more to purchase this.

$20-30 maybe, yes.

I'd do $50 shipped tops, maybe.

What are your thoughts on its worth? Once you've read it, is it boring?

Do you often go back to it and re-read it over and over and over again?

Would you bury it with your upon death?

I bought this book when it came out. Read it maybe a couple times. I will give it a read more once I'm done with the bitmap brothers book just to see why it's so pricey. Shit, if I can sell it for $500 or even trade it for a game, hell yeah.

 

[JamBurglar]

I hear Nolan Bushnell has a few games.

 

[demogo]

I bought this book when it came out. Read it maybe a couple times. I will give it a read more once I'm done with the bitmap brothers book just to see why it's so pricey. Shit, if I can sell it for $500 or even trade it for a game, hell yeah.

I'll trade you my NIB Sundance for that book.

 

[whitefox]

I'll trade you my NIB Sundance for that book.

Sold! I'll be on a plane this weekend to pick up.

 

[DreamTR]

He was born in my hometown, DETROIT! Too bad he moved to some lame city
called Nashville. What's there to do in Tennessee anyways? make moonshine?
smoke meth? sounds boring. yee haw!

Beats me, I grew up in Miami and moved to Nashville from Vegas and Los Angeles. lol

 

[Robotron Jon]

Gary Coleman owned an arcade in Santa Monica for 2-3 years...it was sometime in the mid 90s or so. I think it may have closed right before I moved to California from Chicago.

I think it was in Marina Del Rey.

One of the games from his arcade was on craigslist several years ago. Sat there for a long time.

Gary, MJ and Cage all used to hang out at the Westwood Arcade. That place closed about 7 years ago.

 

[thegleek]

Why is that stupid book being sold at $100-300+ everywhere? (ebay, amazon, etc). highway robbery! anyone got a pdf?

If people are paying $300 for this stupid book, I'm putting mine on ebay right away.

i just wanted to chime in with news that i finally obtained one of this books! sure they sell for $200-300 and higher, but i managed to purchase one for the low low price of $100

insanity i tell ya!

 

[whitefox]

i just wanted to chime in with news that i finally obtained one of this books! sure they sell for $200-300 and higher, but i managed to purchase one for the low low price of $100

insanity i tell ya!

Huh really? I forgot about this. $250 will get me a decent non-working project from coinopwarehouse!

 

[thegleek]

Huh really? I forgot about this. $250 will get me a decent non-working project from coinopwarehouse!

so many things a $100 bill can purchase these days...

or

 

[DonGoddard]

MJ and Spielberg

I have to vouch for MJ as he had Moonwalker made and I know a personal story of him bringing the Ready 2 Rumble team up to his place to meet him and he wanted them to put him in the sequel for no cost. He was also a huge fan of the games because he was in massive debt and put his game into the Beverly Hills mall to auction them off and pulled them all a few days before auction because he couldn't give them up.

Spielberg is also super famous for loving games and used to hang out at the Lucasfilm Games (yes, before LucasArts was even established) company several times to play the latest and greatest games. One time he had stayed a long time and then told someone he wanted the exact computer and setup so he could play this game he loved at home. He also was the main proponent in starting the games division of Dreamworks and getting Sega to join with Universal and Dreamworks to start the GameWorks arcades.

 

[jacklick]

just subscribing to this thread.

 

[rm]

The dust jackets on Ready Player One and Armada say the author, Ernest Cline, "has a large collection of classic video games".

Ready Player One was a really fun read, especially when I actually have a lot of the games mentioned in the story.