Games I Want Back: 2011

[Phetishboy]

Really, a DK cocktail?

Yep, that's the way I played it back in 1982, so that's the version I have nostalgia for. I have had the upright, the cabaret and the cocktail, I'd only really like the cocktail back. Mine was clean.

 

[nulogix]

Great list. The ones I wish I had back are:

Dig Dug Cabaret

Dude, you could just make one in like, 10 minutes.

 

[Tighe]

I haven't sold/traded away many games, just Radikal Bikers, Quicksilver, Flash, Jungle Lord and Firepower 2.

I would say of those I liked Quicksilver the best, but I got a minty Space Station in trade so I'm good.

I wish I didn't sell me Gaplus board I had once I got a complete cabinet. At the time I didn't realize the board I had was the easier Namco ROMs and my Cabinet has the impossible Midway version of the ROMs.

Only CrazyKongFan can play the Midway version well. He's a god at Gaplus.

 

[Scramble1981]

Lately I've missed my old Stargate. It had such a beautiful K4600

I'd probably take BootHill back if given the chance.

 

[videodan]

If I were given my choice of 3, they'd be:

Elevator Action
Moon Patrol
Pole Position cockpit

 

[SlikkNikk]

Games I'd like back:

- Video Pinball
- NBA Jam
- Pole Position cockpit

 

[TimothyC]

I regret selling my 10 out of 10 Tron a couple years ago. I'm a huge Tron fanatic, but I never played it and no one else did so I sold it.

...Well my son finally sat through Tron with me recently and has watched it, Legacy, and Uprising with me multiple times now. He's now asking when I'll get Tron back :/

 

[TheDrewster]

I miss my Burgertime. I've recovered almost every game I regret selling except this one. It was a HUO and I'll never find a nicer one. I sold it to a member on here and I don't remember who it was.

If I sold you this HUO Burgertime serial number 1014 around 2009 or so, I'd love to buy it back.

 

[cpu.slave]

Didn't sell - lost in flood 2013 - Neo Geo Gold.

It started as an empty shell with a nice CP. Sourced all missing parts, put it all together and played it a few months. Then the 8" of rain came in 3 hours...

I salvaged what I could and sold the parts off. Now that I've moved and re-acquired pretty much all that I lost, I still find myself missing that thing...

Anyone in the area with one to sell?

 

[VectorCollector]

I miss my Burgertime. I've recovered almost every game I regret selling except this one. It was a HUO and I'll never find a nicer one. I sold it to a member on here and I don't remember who it was.

If I sold you this HUO Burgertime serial number 1014 around 2009 or so, I'd love to buy it back.

Was this your game? Just came up forsale. It's also in NV.
But seller is a KLOV newb, so maybe not.

https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=474725

 

[SlikkNikk]

I miss my Burgertime. I've recovered almost every game I regret selling except this one. It was a HUO and I'll never find a nicer one. I sold it to a member on here and I don't remember who it was.

If I sold you this HUO Burgertime serial number 1014 around 2009 or so, I'd love to buy it back.

https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=474725

Not likely to be the same one, but maybe it'll satisfy the itch??

 

[jeffsgames]

The thing is, you need to be into the hobby a few years, buy more games than you have space for, etc before you can understand how this happens. When you have space for 25 games, but somehow have 40 on the premises, it takes very little to get you motivated to unload 5-15 of those games when the opportunity arises. Then later, when things die down, you start actually realizing what games you actually liked, and now miss. Plus, the money is gone, so now you have nothing to show for getting rid of the game(s).

this exactly! I sold so many games over the years for space or money reasons. My last couple are really missed, but I was the only one in the family that played them and the pinball machine I bought with the cash is played all the time. So I guess it was a good sell overall. Tron and Q*bert. Sigh!

 

[nesjess]

After a selling off all my games a few years ago, I'm jumping back in with a DK project soon. I miss mine so much and wish I hadn't sold it. Hopefully, this new one will turn out just as great and I'll never let it go!

 

[Airdorn]

I had SN 000002 Tollian Web. I bought it from a local distributor going belly up. The game code was Major Havoc, though.. I had it in my Tempest, and even jigsawed the wood a bit so that I could easily turn the WG 6100 monitor horizontal. That was back around 1999 or 2000. For some dumb reason I sold that sweet baby -- I think I got maybe $1500 for that PCB?

Man, what a regret. I watched a recent eBay auction for a non-working Major Havoc PCB and had cold sweats the entire time that auction ran. I'm finally coming around to the notion that maybe 800 bucks isn't "that bad" for MH, haha.

I keep seeing someone's signature here with a Clay Cowgill quote about never selling off your stuff because later on you'll just spend a bunch of time and money trying to get it back and, man, I can report that that is sorely true!