No wonder Ops want high prices for their games...

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According to the parts manual, the original price of a Sea Wolf Motherboard was 850.00 and the monitor was 390.00 !
No wonder the ops want so much for their crap. They were paying through the nose back in the day.
 
Your forgetting that they then pulled $2,000 plus a month out of most of these machines when they came out. They are actually just greedy and want the game to payout one final time. ;)
 
According to the parts manual, the original price of a Sea Wolf Motherboard was 850.00 and the monitor was 390.00 !
No wonder the ops want so much for their crap. They were paying through the nose back in the day.

Were still paying out the nose. Namco's Razing Storm is almost $17k! Sega's Initial D4 is $15k PER PLAYER!

So there!

Matt
 
All jamma pcbs and stuff were expensive back in the day. Stuff like Street Fighter II and Darkstalkers jamma pcbs were a couple thousand bucks. I have an old EGM that has a ad for arcade boards and there mighty pricy.
 
Op I do repair for just bought a Raizing STorm. After tax it was 19,000.
It's doing about $40/day on average. Needless to say he is not happy.
 
Your forgetting that they then pulled $2,000 plus a month out of most of these machines when they came out. They are actually just greedy and want the game to payout one final time. ;)

I knew the tech at the arcade that I went to growing up. The arcade is gone now, but I still see the tech from time to time. He was telling me that back in 1982, they were taking in 20k a week in quarters.
 
You charge $2.50 a play. :)

I don't. I don't believe in raping our customers. I charge factory pricing from most games unless I think the location wont support it. Case in point, I have a location in Austin in a Latino neighborhood. I didn't think the locals were going to be willing to pay 75 cents per play for Drift, $1.00 per play for Buck Hunter... etc, etc. I lowered EVERYTHING in the place to 50 cents per play and the location makes fantastic money.

Matt
 
Charge less ..but bump up the difficulty a bit for faster turnover. ;)
 
Op I do repair for just bought a Raizing STorm. After tax it was 19,000.
It's doing about $40/day on average. Needless to say he is not happy.

Damn, you posted (
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Today, 04:28 AM)..... you still in Ireland, or do you have even less of a life than I do? :cool:
 
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