Never Give Up

YellowDog

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Last Saturday there was a Mystic Marathon boardset up on eBay. I was going out to the local Houston Arcade Group annual Swap Meet at the Lone Star Pinball Museum (Dan has one of the coolest collections around) and I thought I would just phone in a sniping bid from out there. At the appointed time I whipped out my phone and saw the dreaded "No Network Access" box. :eek: Nooooooooooooo! Another one that got away.....

Later, I walked outside and if I stood right by the road I got just enough network to check and it didn't hit the reserve. So I emailed the seller and made an offer. No reply. A few hours later, I was just hitting the bed when my phone dinged and I almost didn't look to see what it was. It was an email from the seller. He had just relisted the board with a BIN for my offer amount!!?!! So I pushed the buy button, paid for it and the boards arrived tonight.

So the moral of the story, it would have been real easy to just say "ah, f*** it", but a little persistance won out.

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How many of those boardsets ever existed, Ken?

They've got to be fairly rare because there wasn't that big of a run of that game, right?
 
How many of those boardsets ever existed, Ken?

They've got to be fairly rare because there wasn't that big of a run of that game, right?

Based on what I was told, there were 500 sets made:
100 - K1 kits to convert Defender cabinets
250 - K2 kits to convert Joust/Robotron/Stargate cabinets
250 - K3 kits to convert Moon Patrol/Bubbles cabinets

The boards themselves are actually the easist things to find. It is the marquees, bezels and CPOs that are near impossible to find.

ken
 
Am I missing something about the gameplay? I have tried this game in Mame a few times and it never really seemed fun to me.
 
Based on what I was told, there were 500 sets made:
100 - K1 kits to convert Defender cabinets
250 - K2 kits to convert Joust/Robotron/Stargate cabinets
250 - K3 kits to convert Moon Patrol/Bubbles cabinets

The boards themselves are actually the easist things to find. It is the marquees, bezels and CPOs that are near impossible to find.

ken

plus a handful of dedicated cabs..
 
I have the entire board sets from the game mounted on a huge metal plate. I might sell them soon.
 
Nice pick up "williamsKen",you should request a name change to that! Im intoxicated by the way ken.
 
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