Picked up a box of marquees for 20$ tonight...

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Okay, so most of these are going to end up wall art. They're not collector quality, but just nice general decoration level stuff. I will post pics tomorrow, I'm too tired to do it now....damn kid would not go the f--k to sleep!

SUPER GENERIC PLASTIC - Street Figher 2, Street Fighter 2 CE, NBA JAM

2 Lexan marquee holder sheets.

1 MK-punched capcom diamondplate overlay with lexan (Guy just threw it in the box, lol. :)

Twin Eagle
Bloxeed
Golden Tee 2005
Mortal Kombat 2
Ultimate MK3 (Has a tear in it but not noticeable when it's laid out. Will tape it from the back when it will be put up on the wall.)
WWF Wrestlefest

Glass Marquees -
Dig Dug - pretty good condition
Zoo Keeper - Bad
Pole Position - Decent
Elevator Action - Flaking off
Kangaroo - Flaking off
Up'n Down - <---What is this? LOL Has Bally/Midway/Sega logo...gonna have to research.
TRON - It's flaked off in parts. I'm going to retouch it and triple thick it.
Budweiser Tapper
 
Up'n Down - <---What is this? LOL Has Bally/Midway/Sega logo...gonna have to research.

It's part of Bally/Midway's Six Pack, where you could change games by swapping out ROM's. There were 6 games in the series (hence the "six pack"), but I don't think they were very common, other than Up'n Down and Flicky (the only 2 I've ever seen)

Flyers for the "Six Pack" games:
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Like I said in the original post nothin in here was collector quality. I'll do my best to get some pics up tonight. I know for a fact that at least part of the tapper one is flaked off.

These aren't the ones to put in a machine but put them on a wall from a distance and it won't be so noticeable lol.
 
LET THE FLOOD BEGIN! Here come the pics!

First up: Generics and oddities.

I remember seeing these generics BITD, especially at places like laundromats and hotels on vacation. :D Also had a few odds and ends in the box, like this diamondplate overlay that's punched for MK3, with a MK3 sticker on it...

And the obligatory "RL interruptions" pic. :)
 

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Next up: Plastics and Translites

These aren't in too bad condition, a few minor scuffs, the Ultimate MK3 one has a crack in it on the left side. I've never played Bloxeed, but I really like this marquee when it's lit from behind and doesn't look quite so yellowed.

Twin Eagle one is actually in probably the best condition of of the entire box. I'd put it in a machine...if I had one.
 

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And last, but not least...Glass marquees:

These are in some sorry condition, I'm sad to say. Which makes me sad, because they're some of the ones I really REALLY wanted to look good. I will still use them as wall art, and I still feel that I got an *outstanding* deal from this guy.

I did a little shoop-da-woop with the cropping and flipping and rotating to make sure I have the back images lined up pretty closely with the fronts, so you can see exactly where and how bad the damage is on all these.
 

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More glass. I learned a lesson tonight. When you have fragile, bubbling and flaking marquees. Storing them in a box with newspaper separating them is probably not the best way to do it...but if you HAVE to do it, FFS don't touch anything but the edges. Why? Because then your Elevator Action marquee ends up with a big chip out of it, and you have to haxx0r it with a shitty noob fix to prevent the damage from getting any worse. Front, back, and after-hack shown....
 

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Here we've got Tron, which despite the damage, is probably my personal favorite find in here. I can't afford a Tron game, or god forbid, the Tron pinball, but I can get a Tron marquee by god! I'm gonna touch it up best I can and triple thick it because this thing will never be more than wall-art, and I don't want to just have a big hole in the middle of it.
 

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And the end of the line. Tapper. Yes, the non-root-beer one. I have no idea how common/uncommon Tapper is, but I will never ever remember 'beer' tapper. I grew up with Root Beer Tapper on my DOS PC.
 

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