Rare Full size Arcade: Price Check

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So looking on C.L. and I see a Rare Full Size Arcade, and would like some help on what a fair offer would be. The game is a VS Dr. Mario, when I first seen the listing it was for $2000 rare arcade, then it was $1500, and than it was $1000 and now it's $250 with a value of $500. I was thinking of around $150. I would like to have a nintendo cab,but the game it self has little interest to me.? Can you convert a VS board with a rom swap, or is it detecaded to what game is on it. Here's a link to this Rare Arcade http://joplin.craigslist.org/ele/2874560113.html
 
Yes, but I think it's a rom plus another chip for the color palette. You need both for it to look right.

If it all works and the monitor looks good, and you want a Vs. Cab, then I don't think $250 is at all out of line. $150 is better of course, but I have to applaud the guy for bringing his price down to reality after it didn't sell instead of leaving it high and hoping for a moron.

That said, I wouldn't go for it myself because if I get a Vs, I want it to be a red tent, but other folks have other preferences.
 
definitely not a dedicated cabinet.

Yeah, a Nintendo cab (even the particle board ones) are full plywood on the back. Funny when people post pictures like that trying to hide the details.

FYI, if it was a DK or DK Jr. cab in good shape with a good monitor and working Vs. board that wouldn't be a bad buy. The parts are worth more than $250. Plus that style of cabinet is versital. You can put DK, DK Jr. DK 3, Popeye, Mario Bros. and any Vs. game in there.
 
The Vs. games are interchangeable pretty easily, although you really don't want to interchange too often, but the boards are fairly cheap for a quick change up.

Dr. Mario is one of the harder to find games, but Super Mario Bros and a few others are almost a dime a dozen.

You will find the ROM chips are a cinch to get (or just burn), but daughter boards (what Dr. Mario is on) and all of the PPUs are what typically cost a bit more.

You can find all of the information you want on blkdog's site www.johnsarcade.com

Personally I would love a Dr. Mario daughterboard and would be willing to straight up trade Castlevania or any one of my other games for that one. It is on my wish list :D If the game were closer and a good Nintendo Cab (I can't tell from the pictures) then I would grab it myself, and I don't need the Vs. mainboard :D
 
I think he means it wasn't a dedicated Nintendo Cabinet. I believe Dr. Mario just went in the standard Nintendo Vs. cabs which I believe were all blue like DK.

It is pretty typical to see them in Blue & Orange, although occasionally you will see white (Slalom I think?)
 
Was there a dedicated cabinet for VS Dr. Mario? How can you tell a dedicated cab from a non-dedicated cab. lack of side art.

Not exactly, though there were dedicated Nintendo VS. cabinets (e.g. VS. UniSystem cabinets which look similar to a Donkey Kong style cabinet). The VS. machines were a base system with swappable game cards; the same idea as SNK Neo Geo MVS and Nintendo PlayChoice-10 machines.
 
Thank you all for the reply's. I sent him a e-mail for some better pics. If I get some I'll post'em.
 
Yeah, a Nintendo cab (even the particle board ones) are full plywood on the back.

I have seen a few Nintendo cabs that are made with this cheaper OSB (oriented strand board) wood. Even a PC-10 Dual monitor cab. Does anyone know when Nintendo started using OSB?
 
Here's a few pics he sent me, he said it's in storage. Not much to go on, looks like 2 buttons are missing and I would guess this is not a dedicated cab.
 

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Here's a few pics he sent me, he said it's in storage. Not much to go on, looks like 2 buttons are missing and I would guess this is not a dedicated cab.

Thats a dedicated cab for vs games so its the correct cab for dr mario
 
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Truly dedicated VS. games are big and bulky 2 pl. games. They look like 2 grey nintendo uprights cabs jammed into each other at an angle. And the marquees on those are kind of trapezoid shaped IIRC. Then there is the cocktail. I'm sure you have heard of the Red Tent. Little sit down game with 2 monitors angled in a pyramid shape. VS meant 2 or sometimes 4 players would play opposite of each other. Baseball, Golf, Tennis, and some games like balloon fight (2 pl 1/side). That's why the system is called VS. as it could do 1 on 1 and 2 on 2 for games like baseball (again, IIRC).
 
Truly dedicated VS. games are big and bulky 2 pl. games. They look like 2 grey nintendo uprights cabs jammed into each other at an angle. And the marquees on those are kind of trapezoid shaped IIRC. Then there is the cocktail. I'm sure you have heard of the Red Tent. Little sit down game with 2 monitors angled in a pyramid shape. VS meant 2 or sometimes 4 players would play opposite of each other. Baseball, Golf, Tennis, and some games like balloon fight (2 pl 1/side). That's why the system is called VS. as it could do 1 on 1 and 2 on 2 for games like baseball (again, IIRC).

The one pictured is also a truly dedicated vs machine
 
Truly dedicated VS. games are big and bulky 2 pl. games. They look like 2 grey nintendo uprights cabs jammed into each other at an angle. And the marquees on those are kind of trapezoid shaped IIRC. Then there is the cocktail. I'm sure you have heard of the Red Tent. Little sit down game with 2 monitors angled in a pyramid shape. VS meant 2 or sometimes 4 players would play opposite of each other. Baseball, Golf, Tennis, and some games like balloon fight (2 pl 1/side). That's why the system is called VS. as it could do 1 on 1 and 2 on 2 for games like baseball (again, IIRC).

They did make the double-wide uprights (dual-system, I think Nintendo called them), but they also made single wide upright cabs (uni-system), which only had one monitor and 2 player positions. The cab shown in the pictures sure looks like the uni-system cabs I've seen.
 
Truly dedicated VS. games are big and bulky 2 pl. games. They look like 2 grey nintendo uprights cabs jammed into each other at an angle. And the marquees on those are kind of trapezoid shaped IIRC. Then there is the cocktail. I'm sure you have heard of the Red Tent. Little sit down game with 2 monitors angled in a pyramid shape. VS meant 2 or sometimes 4 players would play opposite of each other. Baseball, Golf, Tennis, and some games like balloon fight (2 pl 1/side). That's why the system is called VS. as it could do 1 on 1 and 2 on 2 for games like baseball (again, IIRC).

VS. UniSystem
 
definitely not a dedicated cabinet.

That is indeed a dedicated Vs Unisystem cabinet.

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And whoever said all Nintendo cabs have plywood backs, you are also wrong. The later particle board cabs had OSB backs:

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That is as dedicated a Vs Dr. Mario as you can get.
 
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