Space Fury Cocktail. Rare? Value?

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I've somehow come across and obtained two of these machines over the past year. One fully works but the other has PCB issues. Amazingly, both monitors are working and producing a beautiful image (albeit with some "wobbles and shakes").

One machine is damn near perfect. It came out of PEI, Canada. I purchased it from the original family (father/grandfather owned a small restaurant where he had a handful of games he bought himself, son/grandson inherited it and brought it across the country to Alberta). All parts/pieces are there, original keys, original instruction cards, etc. The other machine has some dings and scuffs and is missing the service door, but it's still overall a nice machine. It shows it was routed for some of its life but it's far from needing a physical restore. I purchase it off a local collector/repair guy who was looking to clear space, he got it from an operator when he closed-up shop.

How rare/sought after are these? Most posts I find about it are over 10 years old with value being all over the place ($950 - $4000). I'm hoping to use these as trade-bait/to sell to fund other projects (eg. I need a new topper for my Alien Syndrome).
 
Looks like an early Vector game, I may have tossed a couple Qs in the game. But for the most part Asteroids and Star Castle were the big Vector space games.
I think it had decent gameplay, but competition among Arcade games was fierce in 1981 and just getting fiercer.
looks like it had pretty good sound effects. Probably just not a really well known classic, unless it was the only "game in the restaraunt".
I don't think its very "sought after" but looks cool.
Probably worth what somebody would pay you for it.
Probably not a deal breaker as far as bucket list Arcade games though.
 
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Pretty cool! I would think this would be awesome to put next to my space duel cocktail.

Cassie's price guide doesn't seem to distinguish between the upright and the cocktail, placing both at 2-2.6K
 
Very cool & rare. I would put a working upright at 2k at least. Cocktail is going to limit the interest unfortunately.

I would love to have one of these myself.
I have vague memories of the game. Realy not to many Vector games ever released. Moon Lander, Asteroids, Star Castle, Space Fury, Battle Zone, Tempest?
Most likely Space Fury was the least popular of all of them. Actually looks like they ripped off some of the programming from Star Castle.
Released in 1981
It was solid but nothing super special, The Sound was kind of cool, kind of a Asteroids, Star Castle, Robotron (sound) ripoff.
I would much prefer a Star Castle, when you get ripping in Star Castle it could get intense.
 
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A simple search reveals at least 33 vector games. Space Fury.....is one. And how could you forget Star Wars??????

It's true Space Fury looks a lot like a color Asteroids, but only until you start playing. There's an entirely different level of strategy options. It's really fun.

The cocktail is more rare than the upright, but it's value will suffer for the typical cocktail reasons. So it's kind of a wash I'd say.
 
A simple search reveals at least 33 vector games. Space Fury.....is one. And how could you forget Star Wars??????

It's true Space Fury looks a lot like a color Asteroids, but only until you start playing. There's an entirely different level of strategy options. It's really fun.

The cocktail is more rare than the upright, but it's value will suffer for the typical cocktail reasons. So it's kind of a wash I'd say.
Yeah was just looking that up.
Was mostly thinking of early Vector games I guess, after writing it started thinking about it.

Like I said, I probably played the Arcade game only a couple times. The talking alien was kind of cool but if I had the choice I would play Asteroids or Star Castle. Star Castle was pretty much my jam at the time, even over Pacman although Lunar Lander was kind of a popular game at the time.
Got to get my Vectrex up and running
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Actually youtuber stated it was in Ghostbusters, Pretty sure it was in a pan in Wargames, and possibly Fast Times at Ridgemont High? also. Those Arcade Pan scenes in 80's flix are hilarious. Also interesting to see what games were in arcades at time of shooting, also.
Actually not in Wargames but Fast times At Ridgemont High
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I've somehow come across and obtained two of these machines over the past year. One fully works but the other has PCB issues. Amazingly, both monitors are working and producing a beautiful image (albeit with some "wobbles and shakes").

One machine is damn near perfect. It came out of PEI, Canada. I purchased it from the original family (father/grandfather owned a small restaurant where he had a handful of games he bought himself, son/grandson inherited it and brought it across the country to Alberta). All parts/pieces are there, original keys, original instruction cards, etc. The other machine has some dings and scuffs and is missing the service door, but it's still overall a nice machine. It shows it was routed for some of its life but it's far from needing a physical restore. I purchase it off a local collector/repair guy who was looking to clear space, he got it from an operator when he closed-up shop.

How rare/sought after are these? Most posts I find about it are over 10 years old with value being all over the place ($950 - $4000). I'm hoping to use these as trade-bait/to sell to fund other projects (eg. I need a new topper for my Alien Syndrome).
Wow, uh yeah, that is a rare beast indeed! Can you share some pics of the cab? I'd love to see what it has for art on top, the CPs and how the insides are arranged if it's not a hassle. Very cool!
 
They're neat tables with the typically-great Sega Japan build quality. One of the few CTs that I like more than the UR, and would probably value as such. What that value is... I dunno. Not many around and you can't really piece one together like an UR.

The main difference in parts compatibility between the CT & UR is that the monitor frame is more compact and unique to the Sega 2P vector CT cabs. There was not enough room for the cage and a standard GO8, and I guess redesigning the standard shelf-mount GO8 monitor frame was deemed easier than making a unique CT cab.

No actual pics in this thread yet, so here's a couple of one missing the monitor:

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They're neat tables with the typically-great Sega Japan build quality. One of the few CTs that I like more than the UR, and would probably value as such. What that value is... I dunno. Not many around and you can't really piece one together like an UR.

The main difference in parts compatibility between the CT & UR is that the monitor frame is more compact and unique to the Sega 2P vector CT cabs. There was not enough room for the cage and a standard GO8, and I guess redesigning the standard shelf-mount GO8 monitor frame was deemed easier than making a unique CT cab.

No actual pics in this thread yet, so here's a couple of one missing the monitor:

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I was unaware that they had made a custom G08 frame for these. I thought they had just stuck a full sized G08 in, like Atari did with the Space Duel and Tempest cocktails with the 6100. That's very cool.

There is a 2 player cocktail romset for Eliminator also, which would be awesome to multi on a system like this. Head to head color vector....
 
How rare/sought after are these? Most posts I find about it are over 10 years old with value being all over the place ($950 - $4000). I'm hoping to use these as trade-bait/to sell to fund other projects (eg. I need a new topper for my Alien Syndrome).

Very rare, but rare doesn't always translate to desirable.

The Sega cocktails are neat in that they have non-standard monitor frame and the entire workings fit in a very compact space, but the buttons are non-standard and can feel a bit awkward.

I owned one of these many years ago and converted it into a two player Eliminator. The archive of ionpool.net had some images and info on these. One thing, the cocktail glass is pretty easy to replicate. I ordered a new glass to the dimensions, masked off the instruction and control panel areas and spray painted the underside black, then installed new instruction cards. Came out great.

Value is always tough to determine for something you see rarely. If auction is an option you might want to take that route.
 
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