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    #7952
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Yep! Pretty much this. I find the concept of 'retro collecting' a bit mad. I've just never stopped collecting for the consoles I grew up with :D

    I'm the same, when I buy a console/game it is never with the intention of trading in, I keep all of my consoles and games in the best condition possible and if I were to sell them all I would make an absolute fortune! (I never will sell any of them though).


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    #7953
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,544 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    If all of this "collecting is mad" and "just use a flash cart" keeps going I'm going to kick you all out onto the games forum, you can suffer with the mouth breathers over there, fretting about framerates and mouse button lag times! ;)


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    #7954
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,864 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    If all of this "collecting is mad" and "just use a flash cart" keeps going I'm going to kick you all out onto the games forum, you can suffer with the mouth breathers over there, fretting about framerates and mouse button lag times! ;)

    Hey, they are serious issues man :D


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    #7955
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    http://www.donedeal.ie/games-for-sale/arcade-classics-8-in-1-table-top/7378487
    Nice looking cocktail cabinet


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    #7956
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users Posts: 10,543 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Steve SI wrote: »
    On the whole collecting thing. Can i ask, am i alone in not having ever started collecting retro stuff? I never started collecting retro, I just kept my old systems and added to them over the years. I didnt wake up one day and think it i should pic up a N64 or Speccy or C64.

    I mean I was never that into the importing Jap consoles or games when I was a kid. So I guess in my 20's I did start Jap retro collecting after seeing the glory that was Akihabara, but in general I've always just kept the consoles and computers I had as a kid/teen.

    Thoughts?

    Surely most of us would have just been adding to our old stuff. I still have my GAMEBOY from Christmas early 1990s and use it. Still have my cube and use it.
    But I always had only a few games for my systems as I rented a lot of stuff when I was younger. Nowhere to buy them and we had no car, so I was limited.
    I never started collecting retro really either but I started buying a lot more games than I did when I was younger both new games and old games. I was just buying a load of stuff but now I'm just focusing on the 3ds, wii, wiiu and gc and the DS.


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    #7957
    eddhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    CathalDublin wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/games-for-sale/arcade-classics-8-in-1-table-top/7378487
    Nice looking cocktail cabinet

    Ohh that's lovely !!! Good nic alright €700 lids though


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    #7958
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CathalDublin wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/games-for-sale/arcade-classics-8-in-1-table-top/7378487
    Nice looking cocktail cabinet

    Im not sure about that cab,
    It nice enough dont get me wrong but theres something not right about it.
    maybe its just the arcade classics bezel.does look well made and well looked after tho.


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    #7959
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,544 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    My playing is since the 70s, but I was never worse enough to keep my stuff until later.
    Since 99 I've been hanging onto stuff though.
    Not counting the bad habit of buying, selling and rebuying I have :(
    For a long time I was never just collecting, I was buying the games and consoles I had owned before, then I moved onto the games and consoles I had always wanted.
    I don't collect for collectings sake either, which is a weird habit to get into.


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    #7960
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    eddhorse wrote: »
    Ohh that's lovely !!! Good nic alright €700 lids though
    a lil pricey alright but if there is room to haggle could be a nice machine, 10 times the machine all the crazies are posting with "upgraded" LCDs on adverts, dungdeal, etc.
    I wonder has it a JAMMA harness, I'd imagine it does.


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    #7961
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Adams family pin on donedeal.
    not sure if the price is right/condition tho but I wont be getting it :(


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    #7962
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    urbanledge wrote: »
    Adams family pin on donedeal.
    not sure if the price is right/condition tho but I wont be getting it :(
    http://www.donedeal.ie/collectibles-for-sale/addams-family-pinball-machine/7384819
    Flock me that's pricey:eek:


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    #7963
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,597 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I don't even know how to begin pricing pinball tables, they vary so much!

    Lovely looking machine though, I remember playing that in Dawson's Bray years and years ago.


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    #7964
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    o1s1n wrote: »
    I don't even know how to begin pricing pinball tables, they vary so much!

    Lovely looking machine though, I remember playing that in Dawson's Bray years and years ago.

    Condition is key,
    Hes right they do go for 6k in fully restored condition.
    But to do a full restore would be 3k or more easy inc new playfield/art


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    #7965
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    urbanledge wrote: »
    Condition is key,
    Hes right they do go for 6k in fully restored condition.
    But to do a full restore would be 3k or more easy inc new playfield/art
    And finding someone you trust to clear coat it, I'd love to remove my playfield and have it touched up and clear coated but I'd find it hard to trust anyone to do that for me over here.
    The market for 6k machines might be there in the USA but I doubt its here in Ireland.


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    #7966
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,597 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    6k :eek:

    Is the cost of playfield items and things really expensive or is it just a combination of that and time & effort of a restore?

    Seems like insane money.

    I know new pins are crazy money, but then so are new arcade machines.


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    #7967
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    New/repo playfields range from $1000-$2000.
    I see a lot of the high price machines are mint with original plastics and playfields which have been removed and clear coated in layers of lacquer. I assume the time is taken into account in the price and its massive work to strip and rebuild the playfield.

    I know it is an expensive machine but €2850 seem pricey when it's listed as a project machine.
    http://www.pinpedia.com/machine/Addams-Family
    Average Prices: USD $2,200 to $4,400


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    #7968
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CathalDublin wrote: »
    The market for 6k machines might be there in the USA but I doubt its here in Ireland.

    problem is the market is there in the UK,
    Lads come over to take them back to the UK :mad:
    A fella the usued to go by pinball.ie shipped loads to the uk a few years back so thats why theres not many around for us.


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    #7969
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Booo
    Would love an Adams Family, a GNR and a Metallica
    Some day


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    #7970
    TheStook
    Registered Users Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭TheStook


    Oh yeah Gamestop have a pretty decent offer for the Last Of Us.
    If you trade in a selected game you can get TLOU for €10.

    Its a pretty decent list of games also for any ps4/xb1 owners. Off the top of my head all versions of Watchdogs are on it, Tomb Raider, Cod Ghosts and Battlefield 4.

    Ill be trading in my WatchDogs anyway, not much replay value in that game tbh.


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    #7971
    Jack burton
    Registered Users Posts: 5,784 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Hopefully I'll get up to view that pin on monday, seller seems like a nice guy. But theres a HUGE difference between and "nice pin" and a minter. I'll see what happens anyway

    Minters usually dont leave the seller much after a full restoration, considering new cab art can cost over £200 and thats just one thing on a very pricey list

    Lads are getting their playfields sent over to one chap in Germany for touchup and clear coating, the results are amazing but i never heard any prices so I assume they are insane. Thing about pins is that i think they are the most collectible arcade related item in terms of unique experience, I know we have the really good virtual pin now but just cant beat a proper table to play


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    #7972
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    There should be something a bit special winging its way to the Marketplace soon enough...that's all I can say ;)


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    #7973
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    Myrddin wrote: »
    There should be something a bit special winging its way to the Marketplace soon enough...that's all I can say ;)

    August 23rd if I am not mistaken :)


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    #7974
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    kingtut wrote: »
    August 23rd if I am not mistaken :)

    You never know :D


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    #7975
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,597 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    If you're selling your copy of Earthbound, skip the marketplace and go directly to my PM inbox :D


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    #7976
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    If you're selling your copy of Earthbound, skip the marketplace and go directly to my PM inbox :D

    Lol, no, not Earthbound. Something a bit more, 'unique' ;)


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    #7977
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,597 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I am intrigued!

    For a moment I was hoping it was your Ridge Racer cab and was contemplating clearing space but sure that's Steve SI's now isn't it? :(


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    #7978
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    I am intrigued!

    For a moment I was hoping it was your Ridge Racer cab and was contemplating clearing space but sure that's Steve SI's now isn't it? :(

    Yep Steve owns that now :)


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    #7979
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,191 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Myrddin wrote: »
    Something a bit more, 'unique' ;)

    A photograph of you at a beers? :P :P

    (I know, I can't talk.)


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    #7980
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    theres a nice stand up RR in the small arcade in strandhill,
    not other vids there so I bet he'd sell it


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    #7981
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,864 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Myrddin wrote: »
    There should be something a bit special winging its way to the Marketplace soon enough...that's all I can say ;)

    Oh come on!! Can't say that and leave it.
    Can we have a small hint?


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