p1899m
New member
I bought my first tron for $175. I was actually offered 20 games (including the tron) for $800. So if I had done that I would have gotten a fully working tron for $40. This was 10 or more years ago.
POLL: Least $$$ paid for a Star Wars, Tron or other high dollar game
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I bought a HUO Burgertime that was stuck in test mode for $100. Then sold it. I miss it 
Scramble1981
Well-known member
Sweet! I get to brag.
I scored a complete & working Blaster Duramold for FREE!
This was 3+ years ago & I had been collecting for only a couple years so far. I knew what a Duramold was, but the picture in Craigslist was a small one and I actually thought it was a joke. It was about 100 miles away, but I just happened to have a friend right up the road. He moved fast & I got lucky!
Great game too, it just came out too late.
I scored a complete & working Blaster Duramold for FREE!
This was 3+ years ago & I had been collecting for only a couple years so far. I knew what a Duramold was, but the picture in Craigslist was a small one and I actually thought it was a joke. It was about 100 miles away, but I just happened to have a friend right up the road. He moved fast & I got lucky!
Great game too, it just came out too late.
My non-working TRON was $100. Needed a PCB set and everything came right up.
bungy
Well-known member
I got a working Tron for $380, but I'm giving it the full artwork treatment this summer.
Those are the best. That happened with my Battlezone just a few weeks ago.
$50 for a Tempest that only needed a new power cord and monitor adjustment.
black hole pinball partilaly working on ebay $623
i paid out the nose for shipping though.
but i dont regret the purchase one bit! great machine! best multiball ever!
reseat /plug back in a few connectors on the back box boards.
few fuses later and swap a few pbdb pop bumper driver boards from an old machine i got, rewire 1 flipper and clean n wax! bam! nice looking machine!
sound works great but still no voice???
back box spinner doesnt spin.
i dont care enuff to do anything about these 2 things lol
i paid out the nose for shipping though.
but i dont regret the purchase one bit! great machine! best multiball ever!
reseat /plug back in a few connectors on the back box boards.
few fuses later and swap a few pbdb pop bumper driver boards from an old machine i got, rewire 1 flipper and clean n wax! bam! nice looking machine!
sound works great but still no voice???
back box spinner doesnt spin.
i dont care enuff to do anything about these 2 things lol
wickedbass
Active member
i think someone here picked up a FREE working Major Havok tempest conversion last year..lucky bastard!!
Bought our Tron back in '98 for $300. Worked and looked great and we kept it for 7 years and never had to do anything to it.
Over the past 14 or 15 years we've picked up quite a few cheap games and freebies... here's a partial list...
Free: 2 x Baby Pac-Man (made one complete working one)
Free: Donkey Kong Jr. (just needed a power cord replaced)
$89: Pleiades (just needed cosmetic improvements)
Free: Eagle (needed PCB)
$50: Joust (needed PS capkit and connectors cleaned)
$100: Tempest
Free: Working Nintendo dual Vs. cabinet with two games installed
Free: 2 x Battlezone (both non-working but complete, included extra monitor)
Free: 2 x Omega Race (both non-working almost complete)
Free: Space Panic (needed HOT replaced)
-Jeff
Over the past 14 or 15 years we've picked up quite a few cheap games and freebies... here's a partial list...
Free: 2 x Baby Pac-Man (made one complete working one)
Free: Donkey Kong Jr. (just needed a power cord replaced)
$89: Pleiades (just needed cosmetic improvements)
Free: Eagle (needed PCB)
$50: Joust (needed PS capkit and connectors cleaned)
$100: Tempest
Free: Working Nintendo dual Vs. cabinet with two games installed
Free: 2 x Battlezone (both non-working but complete, included extra monitor)
Free: 2 x Omega Race (both non-working almost complete)
Free: Space Panic (needed HOT replaced)
-Jeff
HMOON
New member
About 6 years ago a friend from work told me of 3 arcade games under a tarp in a neighbors yard as he would drive into work every day. Of course they had been sitting there for a while and in the North East that isn't a good thing. I ended up getting an Asteroids, Qbert, and Tron for $30.00 ea. Asteroids needed a board, but of course the cab was water damaged, Qbert and Tron both worked. All three machines needed to be parted out but that is where my bank roll started for this hobby. I turned $90.00 into $650.00.
SeaWolf
Active member
$50 tron
no bottom and no side art but complete and mostly working (bad ribbon cables )
Umortal377
Active member
Not all really high dollar, but got some great deals.
$200 for a fully working Xmen and a Run N Gun with a bad power supply.
$75 for a Nintendo Playchoice Bartop fully loaded with games (needed locks drilled and some T molding
$1000 for a fully working good condition Twilight Zone Pinball (needed just a good cleaning)
Think the TZ is the best deal considering what everyone tells me they go for.
$200 for a fully working Xmen and a Run N Gun with a bad power supply.
$75 for a Nintendo Playchoice Bartop fully loaded with games (needed locks drilled and some T molding
$1000 for a fully working good condition Twilight Zone Pinball (needed just a good cleaning)
Think the TZ is the best deal considering what everyone tells me they go for.
Tronic
Well-known member
Paid 75$ for my Tron back in 2002, complete but non-working. I took it home and figured out the video cable was not plugged and it came right up. What was nice was it was only about 50 miles from me in Kenosha WI. It was a raid in the second floor of some old department stores downtown. I remember after I loaded it up, the guy said a bunch of people bailed on their bulk buy and whatever was left we could have for $50 each. Man, I keep rethinking I should have picked up some more that I saw there, but I passed because I wasn't prepared to shell out more money for them.
Got an Asteroids Deluxe for free from a church that I attended for a while. They found out I fixed them and said I could take it because it didn't work and they wanted the space for a new pool table they were putting in. This is still sitting in my garage because I haven't had time to fix it yet.
Got an Asteroids Deluxe for free from a church that I attended for a while. They found out I fixed them and said I could take it because it didn't work and they wanted the space for a new pool table they were putting in. This is still sitting in my garage because I haven't had time to fix it yet.
eXidy
Well-known member
...
Star Wars $100 each (bought several)
Tron $50-$75 (several)
Bubbles Duramold $100
Missile Command Cockpit $100
Dragons lair $50
Space Ace $50
some came from this warehouse:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=491192174022141264&hl=en#
Jon
Star Wars $100 each (bought several)
Tron $50-$75 (several)
Bubbles Duramold $100
Missile Command Cockpit $100
Dragons lair $50
Space Ace $50
some came from this warehouse:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=491192174022141264&hl=en#
Jon
Raven scored a complete dedicated Major Havoc for $200. My best score was a Prototype Defender for $25 from a thrift store.
LOWTECH
Member
Paid $200 for a "non-working" TRON. The seller had thought that it was a monitor issue and had installed a brand new WG monitor in it. The monitor did not fix it. He could not figure out the issue .. so he sold it. For basically what he had paid for the new WG monitor. He threw in the original "non-working" original monitor too.
I brought it home .... started poking around ... told you guys here on KLOV what it was doing .. and was informed that it sounded like the cables were plugged in wrong to the boards. THAT WAS IT! worked and looked great! THANKS KLOV members!
So in the end .. I got a working TRON with a brand new monitor ... with an extra monitor (there was nothing wrong with that monitor) that I installed in an empty ms pacman cabinet that I had gotten for free off craigslist a month before!
I brought it home .... started poking around ... told you guys here on KLOV what it was doing .. and was informed that it sounded like the cables were plugged in wrong to the boards. THAT WAS IT! worked and looked great! THANKS KLOV members!
So in the end .. I got a working TRON with a brand new monitor ... with an extra monitor (there was nothing wrong with that monitor) that I installed in an empty ms pacman cabinet that I had gotten for free off craigslist a month before!
Les Manley
Well-known member
I got my Journey upright for free. I did business with a guy who found out I liked arcade games. He was remodeling his basement and said I could have it if I came and got it. Apparently it was left there when he bought the house. He couldn't remember the name of the game, but I didn't care cause it was free. I picked it up and it was beautiful, all original everything. At the time I didn't even know how valuable Journey was as I had never seen or played one before that. Didn't find that out till it was time to sell it a couple of years later.
