Hell yeah!! 2 candy cabs in 1 day

kjeffery

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Just picked these nice cabs up today. I've been working in Florida and found these 2. One was in west palm beach and the other was near Orlando . I an very happy . The ok baby cab is really clean inside and out but missing a door. This cab will be for my vertical shooters . The blast city is one of the nicest us versions I seen. The control panel supports will be removed and a brand new populated blast city control panel will be installed. I will be using this cab for VGA games and my dreamcasy since its a tri sync . Even better its a wells tri sync. I am also buy a nampo exceleena 2 next week and maybe another ok baby cab.


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Once upon about 5 years ago, there was a Sega Blast City cab in every Wal-Mart in a 50 mile radius from Orlando FL. They ran 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (wal mart never turns off games or vending machines) and were mistreated by bratty children spilling soda in them, cramming candy and french fries into the coin slot and received very little service.

It seems the operator pulled all the cabs when the contract with wal-mart ended and up for sale were a ton of blast city cabs, begging for some love at the right price of $50 each and $200 for the ones that still worked. I ended up with a few of the $50 ones, but the poor tubes were so beaten from the 24 hours of non stop use, and the MS2930 chassis struck with the "flyback goo of death" syndrome. (actually its a melting cap by the flyback and not the flyback itself, thankfully)

I'm pretty shocked you managed to pick up one so clean and un-abused. Where has this thing been the last 5 years? If I were to go back in time, I probably would have bought about 10 of these cabs. I've been offered up to $1500 for one of mine from a desperate buyer. I would never sell it!
 
Once upon about 5 years ago, there was a Sega Blast City cab in every Wal-Mart in a 50 mile radius from Orlando FL. They ran 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (wal mart never turns off games or vending machines) and were mistreated by bratty children spilling soda in them, cramming candy and french fries into the coin slot and received very little service.

It seems the operator pulled all the cabs when the contract with wal-mart ended and up for sale were a ton of blast city cabs, begging for some love at the right price of $50 each and $200 for the ones that still worked. I ended up with a few of the $50 ones, but the poor tubes were so beaten from the 24 hours of non stop use, and the MS2930 chassis struck with the "flyback goo of death" syndrome. (actually its a melting cap by the flyback and not the flyback itself, thankfully)

I'm pretty shocked you managed to pick up one so clean and un-abused. Where has this thing been the last 5 years? If I were to go back in time, I probably would have bought about 10 of these cabs. I've been offered up to $1500 for one of mine from a desperate buyer. I would never sell it!


Yes I actually remember playing sega bass fishing in Walmart and in chuck e cheeses. I paid 400$ for this which I think I'd well worth it since it has a wells tri sync and is super clean. I'll probably end up putting 300-400$ into between a new blast city control panel and the sega 001 loom harness
 
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