Posted by Rahzel on 9, 2001 at 11:39 PM:
I was just at an arcade auction last saturday, for my very first time, and found some crazy deals on games. I'll tell you a bit about my experience. First off, me and my brother came with only about $700, willing to spend it on a game or so. I'm also in canada so $700 is about $425 US. The auction started and a nice T2 pinball ver nice condition sold for about $1100 canadian. which is about $750 US. Afterwards some items got sold for very cheap, like Vitua Fighter in nearly in a mint cab for $200, and another one for $150 later on... But what was really crazy was that at first there were about 150 people at the auction, then after an hour or so it really died down and some people got some sweet deals. A 6-player X-men sold for $200!! It worked fine and has 2 25" monitors inside too! At the end they even started GIVING some games away such as a Hard Drivin Cabinet in really nice shape, it just wasnt working (could of just been a broken PCB). Also terminator 2 sold for $275, and lots of 4 players games sold for cheap, like Dungeons and Dragons (x3), The Avengers, Spiderman, and Sunset Riders all sold for about $100 each and they all worked fine and were in nice shape in their original cabs. If we didn't spend $475 on a Die Hard Arcade at the very beginning, we could of bought some of the cheaper ones so we were sort of disappointed, but we still got a pretty good deal.
Ill try to name as many games as I can and the prices they sold for (all prices are in Canadian dollars too..)All of these games worked fine too
Lethal Enforcers - $450
X-men 4-player - $250
Super Off Road - $300
Super Off Road with Track Pack - $150
Micheal Jackson's Moonwalker (awesome collectors game in very nice condition) - $450
Sunset Riders - $100
Captain America - $100
Spiderman - $100
4x4 2 player sitdown driving game w/2 25" monitors - $100
House of the Dead 2 w/50" screen - $1200
Silent Scope 2 - $2200
Silent Scope 2 - $1600
Golden Tee 99 - $450
Golden Tee 98 - $350
wooden Golden Tee cocktail cab with control panels *not working* - $150
Golden Tee 2002 - $2750
World Series Baseball 2001 (with full Naomi system) - $450
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (with full Naomi system) - $250
Dead or Alive 2 *needed work* - $200
50" screen NFL Blitz *needed work* - $200
Air Inferno sit down(with BRAND NEW 25" wells gardner monitor JUST installed, cost $800 for monitor) - $100
Die Hard Arcade (second one) - $425
bad conversion of NBA JAM 4-player - $10
Space Gun (bad ass cab) - $250
Gauntlet 2 - $400
Indy Heat - $300
Narc - $300
Crisis Zone - $1000
Arch Rivals - $5
Superman - $50
Thats pretty much all I can think of right now, but this was a good learning experience for next year :D