Moral Dilemma, What should I do with these?

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First off, let me say that I hate gutting classic machines. I have learned from my mistakes in the past and now every time I see a gutted classic, its like a punch in the nads.

NOW, with that being said, I recently picked up 3 mostly-empty Midway Cocktails. 2 Galaxians and one Ms. Pac. None of them have boards or monitor chassies (I just have one severely burned tube), and the wiring is in poor, hacked up shape on all of them. Hell, the Ms. Pac is one empty control panel and a few wires away from being completely stripped.

Now here comes the kicker... I brought these home with the intention of Multicading them to help fund my new house purchase next summer. But each time I look at these games sitting in my garage, I want to restore them more and more each time. I know there isnt a huge demand for a restored Galaxian cocktail (unfortunately) but since I dont plan on keeping these games, I am torn as to what I should do. I would love to make 2 grand in the multicading world, but I would much rather put forth the time and effort to see them restored to their original beauty and sold to someone that has a soft spot for these titles and wants a cream-of-the-crop machine.


What should I do? :(
 

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What about getting rid of the glass underlay for Galaxian and making them Galaga's?
They should have the same controls, right?
 
If you ever want to sell them then you'll need to either multicade them or convert the Galaxians into Galagas.

How 'bout doing a combination. Multi one of them and then restore the other two.
 
I say Multicade away, everything on those things are available as repro and why restore them just to sell them to someone else who will probably end up sticking a 60 in 1 board in them anyway.
 
The games are on the 60 in 1,.... and they're missing all the stuff.... so 60 in 1 ing them gets them functional again and gets you cash in your pocket. MULTI AWAY
 
If you ever want to sell them then you'll need to either multicade them or convert the Galaxians into Galagas.

How 'bout doing a combination. Multi one of them and then restore the other two.

Good ideas, what he said. Convert one Galaxian to a Multicade, and the other Galaxian into a Galaga. Ms. Pac is a no-brainer, it's so recognizable it will sell fast.
Twobits has both CPOs flawed on eBay for cheap.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/twobits.com/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3686
 
So let me get this straight...

You ask a group of people who belong to a arcade restoration group if you should restore a game or convert it to a 1 n 60.

Trolling question if I every heard one laughs
 
For me the choice would be simple. An extra 2k towards a new house purchase sounds much better then putting the money into restoring them and not making much of anything back on the investment. Cocktail 60in1's seem to be what everyone is after (or atleast it seems out here). I myself like them original, but since they are that far gone.. why not.
 
multicade.

It's not like your killing an EDOT... Please everyday, easily available cocktail cabs. No shame in that, especially since already empty...
 
Lol i think drew da flipper lost his mind :p

Love ya bro!
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So let me get this straight...

You ask a group of people who belong to a arcade restoration group if you should restore a game or convert it to a 1 n 60.

Trolling question if I every heard one laughs
 
Now here comes the kicker... I brought these home with the intention of Multicading them to help fund my new house purchase next summer.

Jesus, you must be buying a dirt cheap home when 3 60-1's "helps fund" that.
 
Maybe Drew gets A LOT for his 60 in 1s!

The real issue with those games that even if you DID restore them you have a fairly hefty chance that the buyer is still going to rip out the original innards and install a 60 in 1. I know a couple of the people who build the things and they will buy working Pacs, Galagas and midway cocktails and put LCD monitors and 60 in 1 boards in them and then resell them.

Plus the other issue is that you won't do much better than breaking even trying to restore a gutted Midway cocktail to the original game.

Jesus, you must be buying a dirt cheap home when 3 60-1's "helps fund" that.
 
Jesus, you must be buying a dirt cheap home when 3 60-1's "helps fund" that.

Not really. Let's do a little Math.

Drew said:

I would love to make 2 grand in the multicading world

I'll assume he meant $2k for all 3 if he multi'd them.

Let's say he's looking at a $90k house. A 20% down-payment would be $18k. $2k would be 11% of that down-payment. That's not peanuts.

Let's say he's going FHA so he only needs 3% down; that's a down-payment of $2700. $2k would be almost 75% of his down-payment.

So under the right circumstances 3 multicade cocktails could = a new house!
 
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Not really. Let's do a little Math.

Drew said:



I'll assume he meant $2k for all 3 if he multi'd them.

Let's say he's looking at a $90k house. A 20% down-payment would be $18k. $2k would be 11% of that down-payment. That's not peanuts.

Let's say he's going FHA so he only needs 3% down; that's a down-payment of $2700. $2k would be almost 75% of his down-payment.

So under the right circumstances 3 multicade cocktails could = a new house!

I actually am shopping in the $160-180k market and I am just trying to work up the largest down payment I can afford when the time comes. Even as a first time home buyer.
 
I've given away cabs to guys that I knew were going to turn them into 60 -n -1's because I couldn't do it myself. However, its not as if these are unique cabinets specific to one game. Cocktails are so generic -- theres not even really artwork on these things. I don't see the crime with gutting them. To me, they are different from uprights.

and from a post above : Galaxian and Galagas don't have the same controls. (unless you ask someone happy with their 60n1 'good nuff' game)
 
First off...90K homes? Either we time warped to the 1970's or we're talking about Detroit. ;)

A third option: sell them as is as parts machines to someone that wants to work on them. Won't get nearly as much cash as the other two options, but now you don't have a moral dilemma anymore.

Fourth option: find a better option of making side cash and leave your hobbies as hobbies.
 
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