Is the first Street fighter as rare as I am thinking it is?

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Is the first Street fighter as rare as I am thinking it is?

I have been seeking this machine for the past 13 yrs and still can't seem to find one within a 200 mile radius. Is this game that rare, or does my luck just suck? I mean, I saw this game in multiples of 4-5 cabs in every arcade I ever went into as a kid so I know Capcom made tons of them. I have checked at the auctions ,Ebay,craigslist and still nothing. All of the other games I want I can find all the time but not this one.
 
I've seen a lot of listings for the boards and the occasional machine. Perfidious had one listed in the For Sale section. The boards aren't very expensive and sometimes don't get any bids the times I've seen them on ebay.
 
I think a ton of those old machines got converted over the years. I have never seen a pneumatic machine in person but the 6 button machines would have been perfect to convert to SFII which was a very popular conversion.
 
I assume you are looking for one in the original, dedicated cabinet.

I was in Chicago Pizza for lunch yesterday and I popped into the "arcade" area ... much to my surprise, they had an original Street Fighter, but it was in the Dynamo cut corner cabinet.

So ... they are out there, but hard to find in the dedicated cabinet.

Steve
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Eh, It doesn't HAVE to be dedicated but that would be nice. I can't even find a non-ded cab lol. Should I just buy the board set and swap it into a SFII cab? I find those all the time especially gutted ones. Then on with the search for CPO etc.
 
Do you mean the very first version of the game released?

The first version just had 3 giant buttons that were pressure active for each player. How hard you hit this button determined what force attack you used. I have not seen one like that since it came out.

The version I am selling is the one sold just after that with the 6 button per player layout. This is what most people played and remember. I would like to sell this one to someone who would appreciate it. I have turned down 2 people willing to pay the 250$ but had plans on multi hacking it and removing all the artwork. :(
 

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I have a boardset that is supposed to be one of the originals - at least it matches the pics on Crazykong. Haven't gotten it to boot, yet, but also haven't spent much time with it...
 
the first street fighter sucked and would have been totally forgotten if they had never made street fighter 2 years after the original. As mentioned there are probably very few around because they were converted. There was one at my local 7/11 growing up and I almost never saw it being played. Still I've seen 3 or 4 pop up for sale in my area over the years.
 
the first street fighter sucked and would have been totally forgotten if they had never made street fighter 2 years after the original. As mentioned there are probably very few around because they were converted. There was one at my local 7/11 growing up and I almost never saw it being played. Still I've seen 3 or 4 pop up for sale in my area over the years.

Yeah the game play is HORRIBLE compared to part 2 .

Back when SF2 came out , I played it at the mall and it was a SF1 cab that had the big buttons , but then was converted to SF2 with the six buttons . Those are nice cabs , lots of room for 2 players .
 
I've only ever seen two of the cabinets, both kitted. BTW, they're very hard to move, not only because of the weight but because the shape of the cabinet makes it hard to attach a hand truck to. You can only pick it up from the back, and it's so front heavy (the cabinet actually curves towards the front) that you can't tip it back by yourself.
 
I used to have the board...

Then I sold it to somebody in taiwan...

man was that thing expensive to ship.
 
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