First game you wanted badly enough to have shipped?

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First game you wanted badly enough to have shipped?

Most all of us here are cheapskates :D but for any of you who have wanted a game badly enough to get it shipped, what was it, and what made you decide to ship it?

My first has occurred today. Pig Out. Yes, FullThrottle knows about it, and no, I didn't buy his. They seem to be rare enough in dedicated form, that when I saw one on ebay I decided to pull the trigger today after much discussion with the family. Essentially, this is my first game for the kids as opposed to for me. The kids and my wife fell in love with the game last year at the Seattle show. So even though this game has turned out to be my most expensive purchase including the shipping, the joy of getting them "their own game" makes it worth it.

Let's hear some other stories of first shipped games!
 

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It wasn't the first game I wanted, but the only game I've ever shipped was my Red Tent compliments of FullThrottle and Timberterror. :)

Congrats on the pickup Jeff!
 
my very first game ever was a tron cocktail I got shipped from kentucky.

$900 plus $325 to ship if I remember correctly.
lmao

I would expect 2 or 3 trons for that price now.
 
I've had one game shipped, the Moon Patrol cocktail. It was a birthday present for my wife, since it was the game she remembered playing the most growing up.
 
First one I had shipped was my first game, Bloodstorm. Defender conversion but they were all conversions and it was the only one I'd seen in 10 years of looking on and off and it was my grail. Had seen one on some retailer's website for 700ish, saw one pop up on ebay and pulled the trigger. Was from Captain Chris, an operator out in CA who had (as he tells it) won it in a dice game with a bunch of other ops in a basement hallway. Really nice guy, and though I'm sure I overpaid for it, it was totally worth it for me:

http://coinop.clubseal.net/bloodstorm/index.html

Top shot is as it got here and the rest are once I'd unwrapped it.
 
I've only had one game shipped, and that was my first pin: The Creature from the Black Lagoon. I couldn't find one locally, and I got a great deal on a minty one in Michigan.
 
I'm pretty much a Commoner as far as game taste goes (Defender, DK, Robotron, Moon Patrol, etc) so there isn't much I can't find locally. There is one game I used to play that I've only seen once since I started collecting -Rescue by Stern.

I would probably drive up to 4 hours to buy something like that. Shipping would be a possibility.
 
Congrads, I know you talk about Pigout all the time. Thats what its all about. Get the ones you love. Your family loves it, it will bring them closer in your hobie. Win Win for everyone. Please post some pics of the kids playing it after you get it set up:cool:
 
Haven't had one shipped yet. I got close with Red Baron but ended up finding one closer where the guy delivered it.
 
I had a robotron hauled from central ohio to allentown pa so I could pick it up at the show there. I had just sold my brothers MW so was robotron-less and feeling a bit desperate!

cheers
/Tim
 
Believe it or not a Mortal Kombat 4. I had been looking for a long time and just couldn't find one local or within 500 miles. I love the mk series and just got sick of waiting for one to pop up so Aaron helped me get one shipped from the Indy area to Florida. No regrets.
 
The only one I've had shipped was a Depthcharge. One of two B/W games I remember from back in the day (82-83), the other being Asteroids. I loved the game as a kid, but a lot of the time I got stuck watching the attract mode as most of my parents' quarters were for the laundromat where the game was located. The main reason I had it shipped is because I won it on E-bay for only $100 in working condition. Had it shipped from PA to NE. Only ran about $300 total so it was a good deal in my book. Downside was the idiot seller built a nice crate but didn't wrap or secure the game inside of it. So it jumped around inside the crate and got badly scratched by the drywall screws he held the crate together with. I was plenty pissed and e-mailed but I never heard from him again. I've shipped a couple hundred games and have always wrapped in cardboard, then shrinkwrapped and strapped to a pallet. Works great. Anyway, the game worked with some tinkering to get it going and then played fine until the sound started to funk out a while later. Great game, though. Hope to find another one someday.
 
i nearly paid to have counter force pin shipped, its not spectacualr so much as it is incredibly hard to find. money got tight and i ended up doing a helluva lot of driving to save about $140 off shipping.
 
None yet. But I'd consider shipping a Quantum. I'm on the fence as it's risky to ship a game that rare. I would definitely burn up some vacation days to go cross country if I had to.
 
My first Star Wars cockpit was shipped to Florida from South Carolina. That was the very first game I ever had shipped and it was like $600 if I remember right. Now I ship and cross my fingers a lot. :)
 
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