Posted by Jon Wright on August 27, 1999 at 16:57:13:
In Reply to: Re: Are these worth anything? posted by collector on August 26, 1999 at 21:04:18:
: I hope you're joking. Mad Planets is a very rare and valuable cabinet. Please tell us that the cabinet was trashed and not worth keeping in original condition because it's sad to see a rare and valuable cabinet die when there's so many generic JAMMA cabinets available that would gladly give up their lives to become a MAME machine.
Yeah, the cabinet was in pretty bad shape, it had previously been converted to play some other game.
The marquee had been revesed and painted black (the strip light behind it had gone). The original game board + PSU were gone. The orignal joystick and dial had been replaced with a standard 8-way joystick. The top of the control panel had many extra holes drilled in it, and has also been beaten out of shape.
There was nothing of the orignal machine left apart from the top of the control panel and the marquee. Fortuatly I have managed to scrape off the black from the marquee, so it looks almost new. However the conrol panel need a lot of restoration.
To sum up, everthing that was left of the machine I have kept without damaging at all.