Price Check: Indianna Jones and the Temple of Doom

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How much for an Atari Indy in decent condition in original cabinet?

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I'm gonna say $200-400 for a complete game. Kits sell for a lot but I put that in the category of any parted game selling for more than a complete one. Region will dictate price a bit too of course.
 
That's makes ZERO sense.

Actually it makes complete sense if you follow complete game sales vs part sales. I can confirm for sure that in certain areas asteroids machines in average physical condition and working regularly sold for $100-150. The monitor alone could sell for that and the board could sell for $100-150 and then there are the cp, coin door etc.

I guess the difference is that you are either in this hobby to collect and enjoy the games or to make a profit. Someone who wants to collect and preserve the games will not part them and therefore will sell the game for less than the value of the parts to keep it complete.

With extremely few exceptions there are almost no games that are worth more whole than in parts.

For what it's worth when the market was better I bought my temple of doom for around $300. It's in very nice condition. Even at that time the kits sold in the $250 range.
 
Actually it makes complete sense if you follow complete game sales vs part sales. I can confirm for sure that in certain areas asteroids machines in average physical condition and working regularly sold for $100-150. The monitor alone could sell for that and the board could sell for $100-150 and then there are the cp, coin door etc.

I guess the difference is that you are either in this hobby to collect and enjoy the games or to make a profit. Someone who wants to collect and preserve the games will not part them and therefore will sell the game for less than the value of the parts to keep it complete.

With extremely few exceptions there are almost no games that are worth more whole than in parts.

For what it's worth when the market was better I bought my temple of doom for around $300. It's in very nice condition. Even at that time the kits sold in the $250 range.

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for example you have a guy parting a championship sprint on here and the total of his parts add up the $870. Ever heard of an $870 championship sprint?
 
P1899m is pretty much spot on here.

Parts are going for much more these days overall than just a few years ago...even for working board sets for games that are usually only in the "mildly popular/collectable" category like say an Exidy classic or a not-as-popular vector like Black Widow or Gravitar.

I even remember a friend at CAX from more than few years back who had a fully-working Gravitar/Major Havoc conversion he was trying to sell. He had it all the way down to about $350 if I remember correctly, but no sale.

Then he parted it and got well over twice this price for the parts on eBay. And again, this was at least 5-6 years ago.

Same was true for a Mystic Marathon in a Stargate cabinet that another friend of mine picked up a few years back...the parts went for significantly more than he would have gotten had he tried to sell the game as it was.

Jon
 
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