Price check - Nintendo Arm Wrestling PCB

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I bought an untested PO boardset some time back, and when i booted it in my PO cab, it comes up as an Arm wrestling. I did some basic tests and it coined up and seemed to play (but i wasn't familiar with what translated to what on my PO CP). I dug around in the manual tonight, and by swapping one wire, i can fully test it. If it works ok, whats it worth? I looked on here and on ebay both, and nothing but wtb's.
 
It's been a while since I've seen one sell. I thought they went in the $150-250 range.

I think you are close with that. The problem is the CP. These parts were pretty tough to come by, so not many have the CP and no PCB. You *may* have a tougher time finding someone who needs just the PCB and not the whole kit (PCB + CP).
 
I think you are close with that. The problem is the CP. These parts were pretty tough to come by, so not many have the CP and no PCB. You *may* have a tougher time finding someone who needs just the PCB and not the whole kit (PCB + CP).

Anyone who's set up for SPO could play it okay, though the joystick and button would be on the wrong side compared to the real CP.
 
Anyone who's set up for SPO could play it okay, though the joystick and button would be on the wrong side compared to the real CP.

Aren't there restrictions on the joystick, too (only being able to go left, right, and diagonal up/left)? Not saying it wouldn't work, but like you said, its not like the real CP.
 
there's only a few difference between a SPO panel a AW panel.
The AW panel has a 2 way restrictor plate, and the button's on the other side.
Luckily, my PO has the pull up function already. All i have to do is unhook the wire to the KO button, and replace it with the green wire thats loose in my cp wiring harness. Everything else matches up.
 
Aren't there restrictions on the joystick, too (only being able to go left, right, and diagonal up/left)? Not saying it wouldn't work, but like you said, its not like the real CP.

The AW joystick is simply an SPO joystick with a 2-way restrictor instead of a 4-way. You can buy a 2-way Nintendo joystick restrictor, or just use the SPO joystick as-is (it would be the same idea as playing Defender or Galaga with a 4-way):

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In regards to price I can tell you 2 examples of sales of complete games, I bought mine for 185.00 complete and it goes to CAX every year, about 2 years ago one sold local on CL for 300.00 so I would say meet in the middle complete game 200-250! Its rare but not that sought after. You probably will get 125.00-150.00 on ebay for just the PCB! Hope this helps.

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3rd NOS kit I've come across actually, seems that people don't gravitate to this one as much as the Punch Outs.

I had the chance to buy an NOS AW kit too. I wish I had've, just to get the NOS SPO/AW joystick, but I didn't have a lot of spare cash at the time.

AW is not a very good game compared to PO and SPO in my opinion. The speech synthesis is horrible (in contrast to speech synthesis that is still good even by today's standards in PO and SPO), and the gameplay is not even remotely intuitive (which explains the onscreen instructions/prompts telling you what to do and when to do it during the first match). Plus the gameplay is a workout.

In addition to confusing gameplay, there is not a lot of onscreen feedback from the controls. In PO/SPO, you press "punch" and your character punches; you move the joystick to either side and your character dodges. You move your joystick up or down and your character's guard goes up or down with it. In AW, to the first time player, neither the joystick nor the button seem to do much of anything. For those reasons, I played this game exactly once back in the '80s (because I recognized it as a PO cabinet, and was already a fan of PO/SPO), lost to the first guy, and walked away thinking "WTF @ that game". I'm thinking my experience was probably common, hence the game's general lack of success.
 
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