Oh yea. How did I not know that? Lol
BTW Toobin is a very cool game with a way cool cab.
Price Check: Toobin'
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Oh yea. How did I not know that? Lol
BTW Toobin is a very cool game with a way cool cab.
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Fatsquatch
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You guys are open tomorrow, right?
I might have to get "sick" and leave work early tomorrow.
clanggedin
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You can fix a broken waterfall motor with one from McMaster Carr. Years ago I posted the part number to order on KLOV and only had to shave off some of the shaft in order for it to work perfectly.
shred
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The game is awsume. When I had mine it was the game most people played when they stopped over. Now that I have more room again I will most likely pick one up again.
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You gotta have a Toobin with your avatar, brotha.
shred
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I have had that avatar forever.
Yea I know though, I only have room for a few games so I rotate games. I usually sell or trade them once I have fully restored or played them out. I have gotten rid of a ton of games.
I am moving this next week so now I have a 3rd bedroom for a game room which means more room yea..
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the only legit scores on any game are done on one credit from the beginning. most of the time even if the score resets on continue, later levels have so much shit coming at you its easier and quicker to rack up a high score. the tough thing is if anyone continues then your high score board is tainted. blasteroids is another one like that. another game i was playing, captain silver, uses score as money to buy items! i didnt know that the first time and wiped out a high score at the store.
I wouldn't have any problems with continues as long as it mentioned how many continues were used on the HS list. Seems so simple of a solution...I wonder why NO ONE seemed to use that method?
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When I read this quote, my first instinct was "Yeah, right. Like Dale's gonna give me a decent deal on a machine." But, then I got to thinking about often he's said he was willing to "help a KLOV brother" and how he's all about the "KLOV Brotherhood", and I thought, "Well, maybe he will make a decent deal on Toobin'." After all, it's not a high-demand game, and he's even chimed in on this very 'price check' thread -- where there's a very strong consensus on what this machine is worth and what kind of price I should be looking for. What the hell, I think to myself, I'll go check it out.
So I get out there, and when a tech asks if he can help me, I ask to see Dale. He informed me that Dale wasn't there, so "no biggie" I thought, if need be I can surely talk to him on the phone.
So I then let the tech know that I was there to see the Toobin' that Dale mentioned on KLOV, and the guy asked me, "Is that a pinball?" I told him it was a videogame, and still looking puzzled, he asked, "Is that by Midway?" I proceed to explain that it's by Atari, from around 1988 or so, and that the gameplay revolves around two guys on inner-tubes racing down various river courses. He still seemed mystified.
He then calls Dale to let him know that "some guy from K-L-O-V is here to see the Toobin'", and then asks Dale where in the warehouse it could be found. After a few minutes, I finally find it after the tech walked right by it.
Painted blue, the cabinet had decent sideart, but no monitor, and a plexi-covered CPO that was bulging up off of the control panel on the left side (both the plexi AND the CPO). The back was off of it and the inside looked to be like quite a mess. I asked the tech if it played blind, and he stammered for a minute, saying "Yeah. This note on it says it just needs a medium res. monitor." I asked him if the marquee worked, specifically the drums inside, and he looked at me like I was silly, but came back with "Oh yeah, I'm sure it does."
With Dale still on the phone, he then asks him how much they were selling it for.
After he hangs up the phone, the tech tells me "We're selling this one for $900 after I'm done with it." I tell him, "$900? Nah man. There's NO WAY I would go $900 for a Toobin'." He then asks me what I had expected to spend on it, and I told him "Well, for a complete one that worked and was in decent shape...somewhere around the $250 - $300 range." He comes back with a little chortle, saying "Naw, I wouldn't sell my worst empty cabinet for $300. I can multigame it -- putting a 48-in-1 in it and selling it for at least $1,000 EASY."
Deciding not to waste any more of my time wading in horseshit (I left work early for this, no less), I thanked him for showing me the game, and left the building.
Fun day.
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Fatsquatch
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All I can figure is, he thought I'd get out there and see his big ol' warehouse full of games and be mesmerized, like a baby to car keys, and think "W-O-W! MUST...GIVE...MUCH...MONEY...TO...DALE..."
Yeah, whatever. That's hardly the first warehouse full of games I've ever seen, and hardly the first retailer I've ever tried to patronize. It IS, however, the only utterly unreasonable arcade-related business I've tried to deal with time after time.
And by the way, that $900 Jungle King looked like it might be a tad soft at the bottom.
Yeah, whatever. That's hardly the first warehouse full of games I've ever seen, and hardly the first retailer I've ever tried to patronize. It IS, however, the only utterly unreasonable arcade-related business I've tried to deal with time after time.
And by the way, that $900 Jungle King looked like it might be a tad soft at the bottom.
mattosborn
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Did the Toobin' have any toilet paper still stuck to it?
I mostly hate continue games too. I've been planning to get into software hacking, and one thought I've had is to hack the continue games I'm interested in getting (like toobin) to disallow continues. Not really sure how hard it will be to do that, but I'd guess once I get a bit familiar with doing it, it shouldn't be too hard. I wonder if people have done this before?
Phetishboy
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Poor Dale, just trying to make a living.
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Fatsquatch
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I wish somebody would do this and I'm surprised no one has (if that's indeed the case). There are a whole lot of JAMMA games that would become far more awesome if you could turn off the continue "feature".
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Let me see we are to install a new med res monitor, new CPO,clean and paint and sell to your cheap ass it for 250.00. I guess I do not have to worry about you paying us another visit. And as for you trying to make the guy out to be dumbass that was helping you he is not a tech he is a cabinet guy and does not know the games like MY TECH OR ME do so it is a real DICK move doing that to him. And if you can find a fully restored Tobbin for 250.00 let me know where it is so I can buy it. The 19 inch monitor is going to cost close to that. I am suprise in you I did not take you for a Troll. Glad we could not help you and stay the hell out of my warehouse.
beerbarrel
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Thanks for your follow up on your visit to Chattanooga pinball.....I've added them to my no deal with list.
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