Is this guy kidding?
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Wiz
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Oh man, I have sold Brad a bunch of games (including that Defender), and he is a good guy (he is actually a member on here). He has shined some turds pretty well in the past, but this is a total monstrosity. That thing is absolutely hideous- I cannot wait to bust his balls about it, and this thread, next time we chat!
Most times you see games like this, it is because the bottom was so rotted out that they could not be salvaged, but there are bad and really bad ways of doing it as we are seeing here. Glad I don't know anything about the history of this one!
pookdolie
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I can actually imagine how horrible it'd be to pick this thing up and feel half of a machine...
yellowstitch
Member
lol the cpo is contact paper from lowes, my drawers in the bathroom are the same 
Baloo
New member
...This hunk of junk is up to $137.50?
InsaneDavid
Well-known member
Reminds me of that cut in half Vs. Super Mario Bros. that makes the rounds on craigslist around here.
Really I dont understand the hate that some people are showing of this thing... I have no affiliation with this seller (don't even know him). But speaking as someone who has a lot of fond memories of arcades, and now spends a good amount of time at his desk, I would love to have that thing.
I just don't understand the hate. It doesn't look bad at all to me... If I lived near him and didn't have to pay the high shipping, I would be playing that thing on my desk right now.
I just don't understand the hate. It doesn't look bad at all to me... If I lived near him and didn't have to pay the high shipping, I would be playing that thing on my desk right now.
pseeds
Active member
Saw another cut down cabinet on CL recently that was a DK, I believe.
They seem to be getting more common. Ugh.
They seem to be getting more common. Ugh.
Tighe
Well-known member
lol the cpo is contact paper from lowes, my drawers in the bathroom are the same
Are you saying, If we open the drawers in your bathroom we will get the sudden urge to play galaga? Laughs..
LOL!
It is beyond me why any collector would willingly do this to a cabinet unless the bottom was just totally destroyed.
Scott C.
Tonym
New member
hacking some arcade game apart and rigging it back together as something that looks like hell is one thing, trying to sell it for all kinds of money is another but when you try and pass it off as something factory made then youve really crossed the line. hes hoping to take advantage of someone who doesnt know any better, like your self maybe?
Hoping that was the case and this was the only way to salvage the rest of it.
Really? I'll have to stop by the Amini's in Overland Park, Kansas (West side of the Kansas City metro).
Scott C.
Not entirely sure if that was a cloaked stab or not... but I would not consider myself "taken advantage of" to have a portable galaga arcade game on my desk.
He's not going after you - the point/reasoning behind the hate is that guy is claiming it's factory/original/not homemade, when it's more than painfully obvious that it is a monstrosity of a cab on meth...
But, hey. It does have a coin door.
That marble shelf paper just makes me nauseous.
Same idea here. http://stlouis.craigslist.org/for/2608045805.html
jdubb350
Well-known member
This one doesn't bother me nearly as bad, cuz it doesn't look like he hacked up a classic cab. A bartop cab 60 in 1 is actually a cool as hell idea. I am waiting for DPTwiz to come out with a bartop cab so I can make each of my boys a 60 in 1 for their rooms. But the original item just pisses me off cuz I wouldn't mind getting a centipede mini somewhere down the road, and this one has just been destroyed.
I think the main difference is that most of the people here are collectors who want everything in pristine orginal condition, whereas I am a gamer and I don't really care whether a paintjob or bezel is orginal or unscratched as long as the game plays well, and I can relive some childhood memories.
Not to say that either position is wrong, but just saying that's how I could find some love in my heart for the items shown while the pure collectors tend to shun it. I would count myself a fortunate man to have it. "One mans' garbage is another mans' gold."
Not to say that either position is wrong, but just saying that's how I could find some love in my heart for the items shown while the pure collectors tend to shun it. I would count myself a fortunate man to have it. "One mans' garbage is another mans' gold."
