Dig Dug barely dug into my pocket!

Lanky Kong

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So, Tbbk and I head out saturday to look at a supposed full-sized upright Dig Dug that was listed on CL along with a few other machines (include 2 minty pacs; 1 Ms Pac and 1 Pac that we didn't get :().

They were moving and it was an obvious case of the wife selling off the husband's collection... The husband out cutting the grass with a perturbed demeanor, the husband not wanting to go down at all on prices...etc. Poor guy! I feel bad for him. You could tell this was his personal collection and he'd not sold a machine before, most likely.

Back to what happened. When we had got there, the Ms. Pac had been sold for the listed price of $225 to a local reseller/mame'er (who will most likely mame/put a bootleg multi-board in the Ms. Pac >.<) who beat us by like 10 minutes so, we didn't get it. The minty Pac which was also listed at $225, apparently had a down-payment put on it already so, it was "sold". I am guessing it was bought by a guy the wife had told me was coming by friday night to pick up a pinball she was selling.

It kind of frustrates me to no end that someone had placed a down payment on the Pac because when I talked to her, she didn't want to hold the dig dug or any machines... >.<. Had she accepted down payments when I talked to her I would have given her a big down payment for her whole darn lot of machines LOL. Her prices were very good and Tbbk & I could have turned a nice profit. Their lot consisted of, 1 Pac, 1 Ms Pac, 1 Terminator 2, 1 Marvel Vs. Capcom, 1 dedicated MK I, 1 dedicated MK 2, 1 blue-cab DK, 1 DK Jir, and my dig dug.

Anyway, we went over to the dig dug and it was easily an 8/10. The only reason it's not a 9/10 is because some..."person"...put a free credit button right on the minty CPO... Nevertheless, we plugged it in and went to boot it up. The game came up but played blind. The wife was clueless why the monitor wouldn't come up and the husband, whom was more pissed, didn't know either. He suspected it needed a cap kit (which it does but that wasn't the problem). I am sitting there, subtle smile on my face saying in my head "Jackpot! Winner winner chicken dinner!" Luckily, Tbbk was much quicker on his feet and said something like, "Well, what do you want for it...given the monitor won't come up?"

The wife said, "I don't know... I'd do $150?" and Tbbk replied "How about we split it at $125?"

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She agreed and I walked away with a very nice Dig Dug for $125 bucks. The best part? After getting it to where I was going to store it, we plugged it in and...BOOM! it booted right up, monitor & all. Tbbk has some pics of myself playing it that I am sure he will post once he sees this thread.

Here's the pics I took of it while it was on the truck.

~Lanky Kong

EDIT: Well due to photobucket freezing my browser windows, I got to retype all of this over again... F*ck you photobucket!!! Pics coming very soon!
 

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*sigh*

I paid that much for a craptastic piece of junk that I'm neck deep in restoring. And yours is in better shape.

*sigh*

Nice get.
 
I feel the same way. Wife approved something in the $100 range for me to get. I grabbed a $75 POS Cabal real quick before she changed her mind and the very next day I get to help load up this Dig Dug that is literally 50 times better.



*sigh*

I paid that much for a craptastic piece of junk that I'm neck deep in restoring. And yours is in better shape.

*sigh*

Nice get.
 

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Sweet... That's a good pic of me! My afro is totally under control!

EDIT: It's okay Tbbk. I'm focusing my luck energies on the game you want. I'll probably find it. If I do, I may buy it and then sell to you for price i paid minus that Satan's Hollow cab :p.
 
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I already ordered the parts to restore/fix it up as Cabal. Going to try hard to not use the black light fixture/bezel though.

Sweet... That's a good pic of me! My afro is totally under control!

EDIT: It's okay Tbbk. I'm focusing my luck energies on the game you want. I'll probably find it. If I do, I may buy it and then sell to you for price i paid minus that Satan's Hollow cab :p.
 
Had she accepted down payments when I talked to her I would have given her a big down payment for her whole darn lot of machines LOL. Her prices were very good and Tbbk & I could have turned a nice profit. Their lot consisted of, 1 Pac, 1 Ms Pac, 1 Terminator 2, 1 Marvel Vs. Capcom, 1 dedicated MK I, 1 dedicated MK 2, 1 blue-cab DK, 1 DK Jir, and my dig dug.

So why didn't you buy the other ones that weren't sold? :D
 
So why didn't you buy the other ones that weren't sold? :D

A couple reasons:

1) I am pretty much out of room lol...
2) The only ones left were:

Marvel Vs. Capcom (meh kind of a PIA)
Terminator 2 (This machine is huge & heavy. Not only do I not have the room, I'll save my back! lol)
MK I and II (Same as Terminator 2 really)
DK (I fucked up here! She offered us it for $250 and I tried to get it for $200 which she said no to. Tbbk turned around and offered her the diff, $225 and she said she would have to ask her husband. Tbbk said go ahead, she did, and he said "Hell no". At that point the price jumped back up to $350-400. So...yeeaah...I should've taken the $250 deal >.<)
 
We almost took the Donkey Kong but I tried to get it $25 cheaper and the wife checked with the husband who proceeded to raise her asking price by $150.

The other stuff was all big heavy stuff that wouldn't fit into my basement or Lanky's and that I wasn't personally interested in anyway. Would have certainly made a package deal for everything if we could have gotten their earlier (even the big stuff), but I certainly wasn't going to just buy the leftover 90s games that I didn't want after all the classics had been cherry picked.

So why didn't you buy the other ones that weren't sold? :D
 
A couple reasons:

1) I am pretty much out of room lol...
2) The only ones left were:

Marvel Vs. Capcom (meh kind of a PIA)
Terminator 2 (This machine is huge & heavy. Not only do I not have the room, I'll save my back! lol)
MK I and II (Same as Terminator 2 really)
DK (I fucked up here! She offered us it for $250 and I tried to get it for $200 which she said no to. Tbbk turned around and offered her the diff, $225 and she said she would have to ask her husband. Tbbk said go ahead, she did, and he said "Hell no". At that point the price jumped back up to $350-400. So...yeeaah...I should've taken the $250 deal >.<)

Gee that kind of makes me feel bad as I have all of those games in my basement.

Donkey Kong (cabaret):
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Marvel Vs Capcom:
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Terminator 2:
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Mortal Kombat:
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That shouldn't make you feel bad lol. They're all great games; especially, T2. The problem is, as Tbbk described better, they're all big machines...well the DK cabaret isn't but come on! If she was selling a dk cabaret, I'd have taken home 2 machines lol :D.
 
That shouldn't make you feel bad lol. They're all great games; especially, T2. The problem is, as Tbbk described better, they're all big machines...well the DK cabaret isn't but come on! If she was selling a dk cabaret, I'd have taken home 2 machines lol :D.

I didn't actually feel bad, I just thought is was funny because I have every game you mentioned that you passed on.

I did recently pass on a Dig Dug that was right near my house. The dude "upgraded" it with a LCD monitor. :eek:
 
Basement looks great, I wish I could get games that big into my basement.
 
darn it I want the donkey kong(one of the things I'm hunting when I save up some cash) but you did get a really cool pickup.
 
Mine would be fine if the second door to the basement wasn't slightly offset from the backdoor outside...

Nevertheless...I'll try to get me a walk-in basement in new house I am going to start hunting for.
 
With some disassembly I take it? :D

Yes:
http://www.tighelory.com/2009/11/i-bought-propcycle.html

darn it I want the donkey kong(one of the things I'm hunting when I save up some cash) but you did get a really cool pickup.

What? The one for sale, or my Cabaret?

Looks like he has a hatch to the outdoors. Better than either one of our basements.

Yes, I kind of wish I had a walk out though.

Mine would be fine if the second door to the basement wasn't slightly offset from the backdoor outside...

Nevertheless...I'll try to get me a walk-in basement in new house I am going to start hunting for.

No need for a new home:
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