Mario Bros Price Check

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Its a wide body. Monitor still works, Cabinet is in ok condition. Needs some decal replacement. CP is complete, but needs new overlay. Marquee is in good shape. Monitor has very little burn. "UPDATE: No Glass Bezel, pictures on post 5"

Only issue, game starts up. But you can't see Mario. not sure if thats a board issue or a rom issue. You can hear him jump etc. But no mario.

The guy wants $300.

Any advice please.
 
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Bezel and marquee condition are key. If it works and has no kind of water damage I'd say $300 is fine. GREAT game. One of my favs.
 
Its a wide body. Monitor still works, Cabinet is in ok condition. Needs some decal replacement. CP is complete, but needs new overlay. Marquee and Bezel are in good shape. Monitor has very little burn.

Only issue, game starts up. But you can't see Mario. not sure if thats a board issue or a rom issue. You can hear him jump etc. But no mario.

The guy wants $300.

Any advice please.

Board issues? $300 is too high...
Sounds like a $200 game to me.
 
I paid $300 for a fully working machine, except it had a monitor snafu which I solved in a few minutes.
CPO, Bezel and Marquee were good on mine (cpo not perfect)
Sideart on mine is bad... replacement cost is like $150 for that... :(

Anyway, I'd try to go down to $250 unless your real comfortable with the cabinet condition and feel you might get lucky on the boards.
I think a nice condition widebody MB price is higher, so just feel it out.
Your in the right ballpark at least.... $50 off for board error... worth an ask.


Also, I pulled the batteries on mine.. and added a Braze High Score kit...
Batteries only save book keeping info anyway, not worth the leak risk.
 
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Just got a correction:

Has the carboard bezel that lays on the monitor. There is no glass bezel.

There is more pictures of the inside. A little corrosion on the monitor neck guard.

But I have good monitor chassis that maybe able to do a sawp.
 

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yeah you are going to need a bezel.

I think being up in Canada you need to ask yourself when is the next time you will get the chance to buy a mario widebody.

It's not like you are overpaying by several hundred dollars. Reasonable guys can disagree on it being a $200 or a $300 game. But either price is in the ball park for sure.
 
Seeing pics and now with the issues that's a $150 game to me...
 
I have no clue on rarity, due to being in canada. I think being in the maritimes, the butt end of Canada. The last place to get anything, it maybe a bit more rarer then say Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver.

Well i'm more inline with trying to get it for under a hundred, but I doubt that would happen. Did the math last night, Minimum of 600 to get it to show piece. Minimum 420 to get it working and presentable. Minimum $185 playable with out glass Bezel.

Thats implying there is no secrets that are currently unknown.
 
Just got a correction:

Has the carboard bezel that lays on the monitor. There is no glass bezel.

There is more pictures of the inside. A little corrosion on the monitor neck guard.

But I have good monitor chassis that maybe able to do a sawp.


Bezel is Plexi....
Also, is the monitor working?
Rust on the neck guard isn't a big deal.

$200 is my bet, but as mentioned before,
Even if you pay $300, it's not hundreds of dollars. Plexi bezels come up and metal parts can be painted.
 
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