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Lets say i was looking to buy a Tempest game, bare cabinet, had some other game in it, but bad moniter and hacked console, what would i expect to pay on something like that ? Also, are parts out there to remake back to original?

Thanks for your input?
 
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Lets say i was looking to buy a Tempest game, bare cabinet, had some other game in it, but bad moniter and hacked console, what would i expect to pay on something like that ? Also, are parts out there to remake back to original?

Thanks for your input?


If you don't have any contacts you are better off buying one needing repair but complete. The Tempest WG6100 monitor and boardset will cost you some coin.
 
There is a cabinet local here for $85 , didnt know if that was in the ball park. Would like to have the game, but its got card game in it , and a bad, non original screen. So was just wondering if it something to get to fix up ...
not sure if it would work for a mame or what ?
Thanks for the info..new here to the cite and just getting started on getting game from my youth !
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Lets say i was looking to buy a Tempest game, bare cabinet, had some other game in it, but bad moniter and hacked console, what would i expect to pay on something like that ? Also, are parts out there to remake back to original?

Thanks for your input?

Skip that.

You'll have to locate and purchase:
a monitor ($350)
a boardset ($125)
a wire harness ($50)
a control panel ($75)

Conservatively you'll be spending $600 (+ the $85 he wants for the cabinet) with no guarantee it will all work once you spend many dozens of hours figuring out how it all goes back together. Oh yeah... for a game you can buy "working and complete" for $500 if you can wait until one pops up.

This purchase only makes sense if you have a crappy Tempest cabinet and this cabinet is better. Rebuilding a Tempest is not an inexpensive proposition and this one has only the most inexpensive of parts (ARII and Transformer assembly) left from its days as a Tempest.

if that doesn't talk you out of it, I offer this...
If it were a good deal, I would already have taken it when I saw it at his house 2 weeks ago.
;-)
 
[Ok , so what you are telling me is not to get all excited on seeing a cabinet cheap? and to watch for the complete ones? huh?



You'll have to locate and purchase:
a monitor ($350)
a boardset ($125)
a wire harness ($50)
a control panel ($75)

Conservatively you'll be spending $600 (+ the $85 he wants for the cabinet) with no guarantee it will all work once you spend many dozens of hours figuring out how it all goes back together. Oh yeah... for a game you can buy "working and complete" for $500 if you can wait until one pops up.

This purchase only makes sense if you have a crappy Tempest cabinet and this cabinet is better. Rebuilding a Tempest is not an inexpensive proposition and this one has only the most inexpensive of parts (ARII and Transformer assembly) left from its days as a Tempest.

if that doesn't talk you out of it, I offer this...
If it were a good deal, I would already have taken it when I saw it at his house 2 weeks ago.
;-)[/QUOTE]
 
[Ok , so what you are telling me is not to get all excited on seeing a cabinet cheap? and to watch for the complete ones? huh?

... pretty much.
Sum it up to say that if it's a VECTOR game and it's "bare" -- don't bother, unless you have a lot of patience and disposable income.
 
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