What’s One Arcade Game You Regret Selling or Passing On?

All original warlords cocktail in beautiful condition, sold it to Steve at Grinkers.

Fortunately I've been lucky enough to find my project Warlords which should be finished in a few weeks or so.
I wondered where that came from. It definitely was a minty machine.

Jason
 
It's always sad to see games leave the collection, but luckily I haven't regretted selling any yet... I did have an Egret 29 pop up on Facebook marketplace on Friday. After I messaged the seller he explained that he was having a hard time setting the correct location? Anyways it was 400ish miles away from instead of 40. Also, on here someone was selling a Namco Cyberlead which is another grail of mine, but I wasn't quick enough...
 
Battlezone. It came back onto the market when the guy I sold it to passed. By then I moved to the other end of the country. I have yet to see another for sale since then
 
Target Pool. I bought this as a project to gain repair experience but had no thought of keeping it. As soon as it left I regretted letting it go. Such a unique gameplay experience and the most fun 2" flipper game I've encountered.

I passed on a World Cup Soccer for 1100. This was before online tech support was so plentiful and this one had the WPC reset issue that at the time scared me. That maybe the best crowd-pleaser machine I have ever played.
 
I had a chance to buy a non-kit Golden Axe from an arcade for $250 cnd about fifteen years ago at this point. I was living in an apartment so I thought better of it. And I had no idea at the time that the game sold as a complete machine was a rare thing.
 
Any one of the Computer Space games I've had over the years. Life happens and they passed through my hands... Have not found another one since... Probably next was my sit down Space War game. It fell in my lap at a time when I had a Cine Space Wars, Atari Orbit, and then it. 3 versions of the same game. It went for my first Computer Space. Kind of ironic.
 
Sometimes I regret selling my Monaco GP that I restored. I loved that game, but I got great money for it, and I don't live in TTL fear anymore.

Jason
I have that same TTL fear... 10 years running great so far. Theres an FPGA out there, but nothing like it bangin with og boards.
Sorry you had to let yours go. Mine is getting buried with me.
 
I'm not as seasoned as some of the members on here, as I'm mainly Nintendo, and perhaps that's why my answer to this thread is...none. All of the cabs I have sold I have had zero regrets selling. My decisions to sell have all been related to space constraints in my arcade, whereby something I wanted more than the cab I was selling was going to take the space. So a 1 in, 1 out situation, where the incoming game I felt was always better than the outgoing one. If I was in a financial situation that forced me to sell, my answer would be different. Fortunately, that hasn't happened and I hope it never does.
 
way more than just one. i will just mention a few
1. sundance. a guy wanted to trade it for a tempest. i told him your game is worth more than a tempest and referred him to some else (who had lots of money) but he only paid $2k for it (should have just gave him a tempest) although i do own a Sundance now
2. at an auction i thought about buying a gold medal with Bruce Jenner laser game but i passed at $200 (the winning bid) years later i found out it was an extremely rare prototype
3. birdie king 2 worthless game but i kinda regret not buying it because of the cool story that went with it. the lady that modeled for the flyer was given a birdie king 2 she sold it to a friend of mine with an autographed flyer iirc he was asking $300 but i did not pull the trigger.
4. i regret selling computer space, computer space ball, journey, tapper and super flipper although i now have another super flipper project
 
I picked up Thunder Dragon in a rock-o-la cabinet for $100, fixed the monitor, was playing it for a week in the garage when my mailman made me an offer for it. It was gone a couple of days later. I'd never played that game before and I really liked it after the few hours I had playing it. It is the only game I have ever sold and I regret selling it.
 
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