eBay - 3rd Party RARE!!! NOS/NIB Sega Star Trek Arcade Deluxe Kit

Like any really desirable item, just a matter of time until the right buyer sees this.

So true on Ebay. I've watched many an auction where they did not sell for a fixed reserve. And then one day it sells for substantially higher than the previous Buy-It-Now price. Weird. Timing is everything for buyer or seller.
 
So true on Ebay. I've watched many an auction where they did not sell for a fixed reserve. And then one day it sells for substantially higher than the previous Buy-It-Now price. Weird. Timing is everything for buyer or seller.
Yep, I had that happen with a Moebius/Geoff Darrow print portfolio. Had it fixed price for a month, did a couple price drops then finally cancelled it then ran it as an auction it for more than the OG price.
 
This is a neat find, but I just can't imagine anybody paying $3,500 for it. The only really interesting thing about it is that it was never installed, and I figure that's adding like $1000 to the cost here... but what do you do with it? If you buy it and install it in a game, it immediately loses whatever added value it has as a never-installed kit. And if you buy it and refuse to install it to preserve the thing that makes it unique, all you've done is to buy a bunch of very expensive parts you'll never use. It's like buying a rare toy and leaving it in the package, except you can't even display the package or the toy... it's just a big box with a couple stickers on it. I guess you could invite your friends over to stare at the box, but that's not a lot of fun.

Regarding the game play, it's good but not like pump-quarters-into-it good. It's not like something like Tempest, which remains a blast to play 40 years later, but it's a good game in its own right. Might be more fun to watch than to play... the design has a main screen showing what you'd see on the viewscreen of the Enterprise, and then a little radar screen showing you where your ship is in relation to all the other ships. And a lot of people play the game without ever even looking at the main screen, you can play and win just looking at the mini-radar screen. Very nice early use of synthesized voice for Scotty & Spock, and hey it's a color vector, so it's cooool, but the gameplay is probably not its biggest selling point.
 
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I could imagine someone like FIZGIG buying this and put it all in a new CNC cabinet.

Now if it was just simply a NIB G08 monitor. I would suggest that most would actually take that out of the box and use it without much forethought. YMMV
 
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Back in 2004 I bought off Ebay a NOS Star Trek Voyager kit NIB and I paid $1,499.00. Yes, that's right I wanted one that bad. At that time the kit was selling for $1,899.00 from distributors. I still have it and never installed it as I found a Star Trek Voyager cockpit and got it working. It just needed new guns and a power supply.
If I had the money and needed this Star Trek kit then I might be a player, but I have 3 Star Trek vectors and don't need it. :)
 

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I hope the buyer doesn't just save it in the box. It's the biggest waste of arcade games/parts. I hope they cnc a new cab and have a legit NEW star trek. Perhaps the only one in the world today.

And regarding game play @astrosim , I think it's an excellent game!! Starts out easy, difficulty ramps up nicely, game play strategy in early rounds doesn't work in later rounds. And the trade off choices of docking vs points is great and the value changes over time too.

To me, it's a far superior game to Tempest and far more replayable for decades.
 
I hope the buyer doesn't just save it in the box. It's the biggest waste of arcade games/parts. I hope they cnc a new cab and have a legit NEW star trek. Perhaps the only one in the world today.

And regarding game play @astrosim , I think it's an excellent game!! Starts out easy, difficulty ramps up nicely, game play strategy in early rounds doesn't work in later rounds. And the trade off choices of docking vs points is great and the value changes over time too.

To me, it's a far superior game to Tempest and far more replayable for decades.
I must agree, I hope the buyer uses these parts versus letting them sit in the box for another 40 years. A new CNC cabinet would certainly do it justice since the entire game would be 'new' unless you somehow found an absolute pristine condition Asteroids and wanted to follow the original conversion route. I truly never understood the 'saving stuff in the box' mentality not just in arcade games but for collectibles in general that were meant to be played with or used in some fashion. $3500 might sound like a lot in isolation, but let's be real, the value isn't going to go up 10x or something crazy in our lifetimes. So even from a financial investment standpoint, the risk vs. reward curve is pretty flat if it stays in the box.

The closest I've ever come to seeing something like this in person was when a customer brought their entire Star Trek cabinet to me for restoration. It was one of the Halfsies cabinets and I am not exaggerating one bit when I say it smelled like freshly cut plywood when I opened the back door. There was nothing more than a very light layer of dust on everything, including the monitor. Since I've repaired hundreds of these monitors and logic sets over the years it was refreshing to see one that wasn't absolutely caked in thick black soot. As we now have well documented photos in this thread for historical purposes, let's make a really excellent Star Trek out of these parts!

Lastly, I will agree Star Trek is a better game than Tempest. Both titles represent the most popular vector games on the Sega and Atari platforms so they clearly appealed to large populations perhaps for differing reasons. Given I was born in the early 1980s, I was a toddler when these games were new. I never experienced them firsthand like many on this thread but only came to appreciate them decades later. It begs the question why I'm so interested in this 'old' stuff, but they are timeless games that appeal to a broader audience than meets the eye, and I love repairing them. Anyhow, I am not a pro on either game by any means but the strategy involved in Star Trek is deeper and more challenging than Tempest, in my opinion. When playing Tempest, I feel like all I'm doing is turning the spinner furiously and mashing the fire button to survive when you get to like screen 12 or above. I'm sure there's a better approach to it than that and someone will berate me for saying so, but I am not a fan of these chaotic, stress inducing schemes. It's a great strategy for accumulating quarters, which was their primary intent when new, but I have to walk away after 10-15 minutes as I begin to get more frustrated than I should.

Star Trek, on the other hand, requires some foresight, understanding of enemy behaviors, balancing the need for warp speed and photons depending on your weapon supplies and how you'd like to maximize damage for huge scores. The intrinsic value of accumulating the bonus for not docking will begin to diminish quickly when you have a dozen enemies on screen and shooting them one by one is no longer an option. There is a strategy guide out there, which is a great place to start, but you'll find subtle tricks even beyond those as you understand the mechanics of the game. Yes, the game does become chaotic in higher sectors, but it's a different chaos than Tempest. Having that laser focus accompanied with good strategy in the back of your mind yields great results. While I also look at the radar maybe 80% of the time, I am peeking at the left and bottom quadrants the other 20% of the time. You really need to be aware of all the information as the game progresses. There's nothing more satisfying than taking out like six Klingons with a single photon to end a sector with maybe 1-2 undocked bases then seeing that score skyrocket!

I hope this kit finds a great home and the buyer updates us on what becomes of it!
 
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I never knew that game had that much strategy. Thanks for the insight.
I must agree, I hope the buyer uses these parts versus letting them sit in the box for another 40 years. A new CNC cabinet would certainly do it justice since the entire game would be 'new' unless you somehow found an absolute pristine condition Asteroids and wanted to follow the original conversion route. I truly never understood the 'saving stuff in the box' mentality not just in arcade games but for collectibles in general that were meant to be played with or used in some fashion. $3500 might sound like a lot in isolation, but let's be real, the value isn't going to go up 10x or something crazy in our lifetimes. So even from a financial investment standpoint, the risk vs. reward curve is pretty flat if it stays in the box.

The closest I've ever come to seeing something like this in person was when a customer brought their entire Star Trek cabinet to me for restoration. It was one of the Halfsies cabinets and I am not exaggerating one bit when I say it smelled like freshly cut plywood when I opened the back door. There was nothing more than a very light layer of dust on everything, including the monitor. Since I've repaired hundreds of these monitors and logic sets over the years it was refreshing to see one that wasn't absolutely caked in thick black soot. As we now have well documented photos in this thread for historical purposes, let's make a really excellent Star Trek out of these parts!

Lastly, I will agree Star Trek is a better game than Tempest. Both titles represent the most popular vector games on the Sega and Atari platforms so they clearly appealed to large populations perhaps for differing reasons. Given I was born in the early 1980s, I was a toddler when these games were new. I never experienced them firsthand like many on this thread but only came to appreciate them decades later. It begs the question why I'm so interested in this 'old' stuff, but they are timeless games that appeal to a broader audience than meets the eye, and I love repairing them. Anyhow, I am not a pro on either game by any means but the strategy involved in Star Trek is deeper and more challenging than Tempest, in my opinion. When playing Tempest, I feel like all I'm doing is turning the spinner furiously and mashing the fire button to survive when you get to like screen 12 or above. I'm sure there's a better approach to it than that and someone will berate me for saying so, but I am not a fan of these chaotic, stress inducing schemes. It's a great strategy for accumulating quarters, which was their primary intent when new, but I have to walk away after 10-15 minutes as I begin to get more frustrated than I should.

Star Trek, on the other hand, requires some foresight, understanding of enemy behaviors, balancing the need for warp speed and photons depending on your weapon supplies and how you'd like to maximize damage for huge scores. The intrinsic value of accumulating the bonus for not docking will begin to diminish quickly when you have a dozen enemies on screen and shooting them one by one is no longer an option. There is a strategy guide out there, which is a great place to start, but you'll find subtle tricks even beyond those as you understand the mechanics of the game. Yes, the game does become chaotic in higher sectors, but it's a different chaos than Tempest. Having that laser focus accompanied with good strategy in the back of your mind yields great results. While I also look at the radar maybe 80% of the time, I am peeking at the left and bottom quadrants the other 20% of the time. You really need to be aware of all the information as the game progresses. There's nothing more satisfying than taking out like six Klingons with a single photon to end a sector with maybe 1-2 undocked bases then seeing that score skyrocket!

I hope this kit finds a great home and the buyer updates us on what becomes of it!
 
It took four months and repetitive new auctions but it finally sold for $3500 on Sept 15th. Or was there a lower bid offer? READ RESPONSES BELOW ...
Congrats to both buyer and seller, I guess. May the Force be with you always. Live Long and Proper. :cautious:

I've previously archived the pics in this thread, but here's the text from the final auction:

RARE!!! NOS/NIB Sega Star Trek Arcade Deluxe Kit With G08 Electrohome Monitor
https://www.ebay.com/sch/gooterman/m.html?item=266990963344&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l161210
gooterman

US $3,500.00 ???
1 bid
Ended
or Best Offer
Condition: New
Ended: Sep 15, 2024 1738 PDT

Shipping:
May not ship to Canada. Read item description or contact seller for shipping options. See details for shipping
Located in: Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, United States

Here's a piece of arcade unobtainium .... Fresh out of an operators vault.

A new in box complete Sega Star Trek deluxe conversion kit including the nearly unobtainable color vector xy monitor.

Everything you would have needed to turn any arcade cabinet you had into an xy star trek.

I did just post an unpacking video on YouTube a few minutes ago... So that should be up soon.

The box is still in pretty good condition got being 40 years old. You can tell it touched water in the bottom corners on one side.... But everything inside seems fine.

While all of these parts are new.... They are still 40 years old and could possibly need work. I would suggest that the monitor *should* be recapped before putting power to it.

Or keep it complete and show off as the only person on the planet with an NOS G08 monitor.

NO SHIPPING: Being that this is rare, heavy, large and FRAGILE.... It must be picked up. Whether by you or a qualified Arcade shipping company, I can pretty much guarantee it wouldn't survive going thru UPS or the Post office.


 
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Hate to say this, but those parts are probably worth more in that box then trying to build a new game out of them.

You would lose $$$$ just by using them. I would think these are going to stay in the box forever and never be used.
 
Hate to say this, but those parts are probably worth more in that box then trying to build a new game out of them.

You would lose $$$$ just by using them. I would think these are going to stay in the box forever and never be used.
So what? You can't play with a box. Unless you are a cat or a kid.
 
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