WTB: Ice Cold Beer, Missile Command, Food Fight, in Houston, TX or surrounding states

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WTB: Ice Cold Beer, Missile Command, Food Fight, in Houston, TX or surrounding states

Title says it all. WTB an Ice Cold Beer, a Missile Command, and/or a Food Fight, in Houston, TX or surrounding states. I frequently am out in the Shreveport/Mansfield, LA area as well as San Antonio/Laredo/Pecos, TX. Less frequently I also get called out to Little Rock, AR area and near OKC.

Willing to make a fair offer for what you have. Can be pretty generous, just please don't throw out 'firm' wishful thinking eBay prices (or if you do don't get pissy when I counter-offer). Can also pony up for properly restored titles, but keep in mind that our definitions of 'proper' may vary significantly.

Keep in mind that I'm not looking for anything too beat up and water swollen stuff is basically out of the question regardless of price (unless maybe you're very local and have a good parts candidate).

Oh and as of this posting I am in Saudi Arabia right now. I just have a lot of free time on these trips and sometimes try to set up purchases for when I get back. :D
 
I have a pretty sweet foodfight but I'm far away.

What the devil are you doing in Saudi Arabia?
 
I might go for shipping, but I doubt that I could offer a good enough price to make it worth both of our whiles (well... I *could* I guess, but when it has to be shipped I'm less inclined to make a substantial offer since I can't see it in person and have the shipping overhead).

I think in the case of that game I may have to get one shipped or forget it though. I think I've seen one Food Fight for sale in person ever, and it was at Joystix in Houston - a retailer (which means they'd try to gouge me for $1500 minimum and I'm not real interested in buying it pre-spit shined or getting some silly-ass warranty).


I work for a manufacturer of blowout preventer control systems for drilling rigs. It's basically a huge hydraulic control mechanism for a blowout preventer, typically with a electric/pneumatic control system on top of that for remote actuation and alarms/indicators. I'm the senior field service technician for the company and Nabors Drilling has a fair amount of our units out here. Lately when they need OEM service they just email me directly at my gmail account and don't even CC my boss, pretty funny IMO. :D

When I'm not out here I'm usually on the road in the TX quad-state area (TX, NM, LA, OK, AR) doing inspections and upgrades, or back at the shop doing electrical manufacturing and QA.
 
Bumping this up. Unless some other tasks come up I should be home in under a week I'd imagine.

I'd also be down for a Gottleib Black Hole or Haunted House (BH being preferred).

I also have a pretty damn nice Millipede I could trade which is complete minus the black monitor shroud. Of course for any of the listed wants I'd have to supplement with some cash, but I already have a Millipede in slightly nicer shape so if you take it off my hands you'd practically be doing me a favor.

Also have literally a couple thousand mint/complete console games and systems that I haven't had time to try to sell off, but then that stuff doesn't seem to be of much interest to the crowd here unless they're bare cart/disc and cheap.
 
Bump.

Sooo how about if I add Elevator Action to the list? Moon Patrol? Blue Print? Point Blank (1 or 2)? Gauntlet (1 or 2)? Asteroids Deluxe (yes I know there is one FS in Dallas right now, but I wouldn't pay over $200 for that one)?

Man I should just move to Dallas, their CL is saturated right now. :p
 
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Bump.

So I'm hoping to buy fizgig's Food Fight and have it shipped. Anybody closer got anything else FS from these posts?
 
Bump.

Thought I had a BH lined up, but I made the mistake of posting my intent and suddenly all the reticent inquirers who were sitting on their haunches, checking with their wives, and deciding if they can stomach making their children eat Ramen for the next 6 months want to throw money around. Groovy. :/

To add to the list how about a nice original Asteroids? Going to need one of those eventually for the A/AD/LL multi.

Still in Saudi btw. Which I suppose is good and bad, by the time I get back in about 2 weeks the client's delay will have netted me yet another $6K. Never a bad thing.
 
I've got a Black Hole locked down. Food Fight fell through.

Bump.

Still really wanting an Ice Cold Beer (...while I'm in Saudi? Imagine that lol) and/or a Missile Command. An original Asteroids is also up there since I want to do the multi with the panel Takeman will be having produced. Like someone said before it boggles my mind how 5x as many Asteroids Deluxe machines pop up for sale when they made probably 5x as many of the original! Not sure if that is a testament to its popularity or a precursor to how many have been destroyed...

I may just snag a somewhat overpriced Missile Command from a nearby CL post though if it is still there by the time work takes me to that area again.

And, yes, I know, you have to dig through this post too much to see what I am looking for. I plan to make a consolidated wants thread that is better organized soon and toss my parts wants in there as well.
 
I have 2 missile commands here. One is nearly 100 percent ready to go and pretty nice. The other is a project but I have artwork for it. Yes, please come to Dallas or the Dallas auction and take one of these off my hands. Photos if you need them. Nice Missile command is $600. Project is $200 with artwork or $325 with tested working board.
 
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