What Will Happen To Your Arcade Games When You Die?

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What Will Happen To Your Arcade Games When You Die?

I came up with the idea after reading this thread about jammaboards.com

RIP Tim

Live every second of your life as we all will end up in the same place one day.

So, what do you think will happen to your arcade games when you die?

Mine will most likely get posted on craigslist or ebay for some crazy low price, with a bad vague discription. But at least someone will get a good deal...

:confused:

(Hopefully someone else didn't already start a thread about this as I would hate to be known as a thread idea thief)
 
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My wife, if she outlives me, has been informed how to properly price check their values, and to offer sales to fellow collectors first. I put together a plan, for if she wants to unload them.
 
My wife, if she outlives me, has been informed how to properly price check their values, and to offer sales to fellow collectors first. I put together a plan, for if she wants to unload them.

So if one day you log onto KLOV and you sell your Lunar Lander, we should assume you died?

:)
 
My wife is under strict instructions to convert them all into 60-in-1s. 19-in-1s if they're vectors, laserdiscs, or cocktails.

In all seriousness, though, there's a shortlist of people they will be passed to at no cost except for whatever it takes for them to collect the games. If none of them can take them, there are museums listed as second choices, followed by certain charitable organisations. There are stipulations attached to the donations to charity.

If none of that works, they are all to be taken to a specific location in the Mojave desert, filled with binary explosives, and detonated with a round from a .223 rifle.
 
I just hope my wife doesn't sell them for what I told her I paid for them

Well, once she finds out how much they are worth, she'll be so happy about what a great investor you were...

:)
 
Although one can never predict their own mortality, I would hope that the majority of my games will have found new owners by that time. The two games that are permanent fixtures in my life (Donkey Kong and Super Mario pinball) I hope stay somewhere in the family.
 
Hopefully one of my kids will take them and have warm memeories of their childhood every time they coin one up.
 
I want them all hacked apart, the wood used to make a boat, and then give me a Viking funeral.
 
ive instructed somebody to sell everything but the tempest machine and keep the money.
she can keep the tempest.
My cars would be more of a concern, I have all matching number classic cars , one is really rare .Ive signed bill of sales over to the same person just
in case.
 
im still gonna be buried in my edot :)

the rest of my games will go to my boys.... although im not sure if they will give a rats ass about my cades and pins later on down the road. right now all they care about is minecraft and legos :)
 
ohhh.... classic cars huh? do tell do tell :)

ive instructed somebody to sell everything but the tempest machine and keep the money.
she can keep the tempest.
My cars would be more of a concern, I have all matching number classic cars , one is really rare .Ive signed bill of sales over to the same person just
in case.
 
I think we did have this conversation before, but I'm too lazy to search for it :(

But here's a real answer. When you have a will and Power of Atty and DNR and all those end of life docs, you can also add a letter to the stack for certain things that have special circumstances. For example, I have ~100 chickens and have a plan for someone to come take care of the chickens and decide what to do with the flock. Chickens don't want to wait for probate to clear before they get food and water.

Another excellent example of a place for a letter is arcade and pinball machines. I made a list of all the games I own, with a current (as of some date) estimated value, and a list of sites to use as resources. I also named a couple people that I would trust to handle the sales and they are to be paid some thing for their effort. I think the way I set it up was that they get something for each game sold at the list's price and they can keep everything above that price. Everything they can't sell goes to auction or ebay or something.

All of the proceeds get paid to the estate as cash (as cash is treated in the will).

Yeah, that's not as funny as todd pushing them off his building, but I hope it's helpful.
 
Fine...if we're going to recycle a thread, then my answer is the same as last time.

My wife will call all my collector friends and tell them to get all of my "crap" out of her house ASAP. I'll be dead...what do I care?



Brentradio, What will your next provocative thread be? :) :)
 
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