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Is this a good price?

Saw a listing for some red tents:
I have 4 Nintendo red tent arcade cabinets for sale! They are all in about the same condition as the one I photographed, they are currently without monitors or game boards for $250. I have 4 working VS boards, 1 of them has Mario and Castlevania and those can be added for $150 a piece. I also have several CRT's available to replace them that are $100 a piece.
 
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Yeah... That's how I read that. No monitors at $250 doesn't seem great. [emoji30]



And no games included. Would have to buy from him or best bet is to get a multi kit from HighScoreSaves. I would say "no", but I'm not up on the Nintendo stuff. STG seems to vote "no" as well. I personally didn't like my red tents and sold them after only having them for a few weeks. YMMV though. To each their own.
 
I have 4 Nintendo red tent arcade cabinets for sale! ...they are currently without monitors or game boards for $250.

This is hard to sentence to read for guys that are looking for a Red Tent.

Sheesh! 4 parted out machines. Sad Face.
 
250 machine frame
150 1 PCB with two games that are worth over 150. Castlevania is that alone
200 2 monitors

600 total machine

May not be worth it to you guys but I paid 500 with no PCB or games. Drove 4 hours round trip to get it. Unless I'm missing something it seems pretty fair if your in the right distance. The other boards with no games should be lowered in price to 50 a board and that would make the other 3 500 worth of machine as long as they have the wiring harness and power supply.
I do consider I wanted my tent to keep because I love this setup and library of games, and I haven't seen the condition and if you want it perfect a restore will add to the cost. Just my 2 cents.
 
250 machine frame
150 1 PCB with two games that are worth over 150. Castlevania is that alone
200 2 monitors

600 total machine

May not be worth it to you guys but I paid 500 with no PCB or games. Drove 4 hours round trip to get it. Unless I'm missing something it seems pretty fair if your in the right distance. The other boards with no games should be lowered in price to 50 a board and that would make the other 3 500 worth of machine as long as they have the wiring harness and power supply.
I do consider I wanted my tent to keep because I love this setup and library of games, and I haven't seen the condition and if you want it perfect a restore will add to the cost. Just my 2 cents.

I almost wrote the same thing you just did...except that the effort and time to obtain the monitors offsets the savings. In other words, you could have a head-less red tent in your collection for a very long time.
 
I almost wrote the same thing you just did...except that the effort and time to obtain the monitors offsets the savings. In other words, you could have a head-less red tent in your collection for a very long time.

That's true about the monitors. Decently hard to source, but it says he has replacement monitors. Whether or not they are the smaller sanyos is not evident. The buyer would have to decide if they want original or not. If not, decent buy for someone that just wants to play some vs. I would want original and to me without them this would be a deal breaker. The possible cost unless you got them at a low cost would shoot this machine price up and probably not be worth it at that point for me. Very good point about the monitors none the less.
 
250 machine frame
150 1 PCB with two games that are worth over 150. Castlevania is that alone
200 2 monitors

600 total machine

May not be worth it to you guys but I paid 500 with no PCB or games. Drove 4 hours round trip to get it. Unless I'm missing something it seems pretty fair if your in the right distance. The other boards with no games should be lowered in price to 50 a board and that would make the other 3 500 worth of machine as long as they have the wiring harness and power supply.
I do consider I wanted my tent to keep because I love this setup and library of games, and I haven't seen the condition and if you want it perfect a restore will add to the cost. Just my 2 cents.
I am really close to the guy selling...

Here is what one of them looks like. I reached out to the guy to see what all is inside.
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Just a thought. Since everything is separate it may be hard to determine what's working. I saw mine working when I picked it up. If everything isn't assembled on sight and tested it may be costly. Something to keep in mind.
 
I read that as him implying that he yanked the monitors out, and they are available for $100/ea. If they are indeed the XM-1801's, that's a steal for the monitors alone.

$600 for a complete Tent with a PCB and games is nothing to scoff at. Repaint the thing and polish the buttons, you got yourself a ~$1000 machine.

If I were in the market for a Tent, I'd definitely go take a look. And I'd buy up the monitors for $100 apiece all day long (if they are XM's). No XM's = walk away.
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Drove down to Columbus today and picked up 7 Sharp XM-1801 monitors, one of the shells, and two boards with SMB and Castlevania installed on each. The price was in their favor, but seeing as I'm NEVER going to get back to my mom's house in MA to pick up my restored red tent, I felt happy to pay up.

I had to haggle a little, and trust me, NOT cheap, but worth what I paid. 3 of the 7 monitors tested good, right off the bat.

Two of them had slight convergence issues, one had no HV to the tube but played sound (I'm thinking a flyback and a capkit will fix this one), and one started to smoke. I'm pretty confident that I'll be able to work on them and get 6 of the 7 working!

One of the two board sets had an issue where it kept resetting, but I knew that it was probably the cpu! Luckily it was! Woo.

If anyone is interested in the other stuff, they do have three more cabinets, and one board-set left (tennis/soccer).
 
I remember buying one of these red tents for $50 then giving it away to a friend. He probably still has it not working. :p Sold a working XM monitor for $150 maybe a few years ago.

That said $250 is a good deal because the parts are expensive these days. The control panels alone are worth more than $250.
 
I remember buying one of these red tents for $50 then giving it away to a friend. He probably still has it not working. :p Sold a working XM monitor for $150 maybe a few years ago.

That said $250 is a good deal because the parts are expensive these days. The control panels alone are worth more than $250.
 
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