Hungry Hungry Hippo's arcade

shardian

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We played one of these years ago and the wife and I loved it. We were talking about how much we loved the board game as kids, and was gonna buy the board game for our daughter. Unfortunately, the reviews for the 'new ones' were crap. They don't even use real marbles! About that time, we also decided to look up the arcade game.

It's a hefty unit, but the wife seems very interested in getting one. Does anyone have any leads on one? I have no clue what happened to the one that used to be at the Billy Bob's down here. I know that at auctions these redemption things go for next to nothing.


So.... if anyone has one for a decent price within a few hours drive of 25510, knows of one, or see's one at an auction, please let me know.

If else, if anyone has a copy of the vintage (late 70's early 80's) copy of the home game and wouldn't mind selling it to me so the 'new generation' can play it, I'd appreciate it!
 
There was one at the Harrisburg auction, but I didn't see what it went for, since I wasn't paying attention to the redemption stuff.

DogP
 
I'd only be willing to drop a few hundo on one at most. $1800 is pretty funny!

Nebraska is a ways away, and shipping on that thing would be killer.
 
There was one at the Harrisburg auction, but I didn't see what it went for, since I wasn't paying attention to the redemption stuff.

DogP

I saw that thing there too. Man!! That machine is loud as hell when its running. No way I could have that in my house.
 
Hit ebay and buy a classic tabletop game. MUCH MUCH cheaper.

I perused ebay the other day, but it is mostly bombarded with the newer "hasbro" crappy ones. It would have to be pre-1985 for me to even consider it.

Still, the coin-op version was very, very fun. And you know how I am about coin-op stuff.

Another game I'd like is Crossfire. That was a kick-ass 'board game' where you had a gun fed by a tray of ball bearings. You shot at different shaped pucks and tried to knock them in the other guy's pit before he got them in yours.
 
Crossfire, eh?. I liked that video, but it does have a lot of language if you don't care for that...


I also saw a HHH redemption machine at the Dallas Auction earlier this year. It was missing the bubble and was dirty as all get out. I have no idea what it went for.
 
There was one that sat on ebay for a while at $100. It came up on my distance sorted search so it must not have been too far away. I thought about buying it just for the heck of it...

Wade
 
When I first saw this thing in the arcade after growing up with the home version, I couldn't believe it. I was SO SURE that they'd make an arcade version of Crossfire, but it never happened. I still to this day think that would be an awesome game to be produced as an arcade unit (think like a 2 player head to head version of Hyperball).

Now that I think about it... Was crossfire inspired by Hyperball? Sorry to go off topic...

Brendan
 
How many of y'all have worked on a HHH?

I have, and I'm glad chucky chz got rid of em. Always one hippo acting up and burning up gear boxes . Ugh!
 
this thing used too scare the crap out of me.. You never know when its going too reload the balls. Boy that thing made alot of Noise.
 
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