I'd buy that for a $: Retro bargains

Inviere · 17-12-2022 6:20pm

Looks like it's going for a hundred quid, an absolute steal right there.

Worztron · 17-12-2022 6:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119858205#Comment_119858205

I love the Dizzy games on the Commodore 64. Fantasy World Dizzy, Kwik Snax, Magicland Dizzy, Treasure Island Dizzy, etc. 🕹️

CiDeRmAn · 17-12-2022 9:59pm

http://www.adverts.ie/28890905

Cheesebob has a candy up!

2.2k

Jack burton · 17-12-2022 10:55pm

€2200

Am I missing something?

geotrig · 18-12-2022 1:42pm

Yeah 2.2k , 😅 over priced tbh while his Famicomtv was great and everything else in the collection they are all on the really high end price wise. There was a few ftv on eBay recently that would have saved you money buying even with customs and shipping

CathalDublin · 19-12-2022 10:14pm

“The monitor is working perfectly and had little to no screen burn.”

Which is it screen burn or no screen burn?

my OCD couldn’t allow me have a CRT with screen burn

jimjim23 · 21-12-2022 10:37am

Hey gang, would anyone know where I'd be able to find an X-men 4 player Cab? I might end up building it from scratch, but wanted to see if I could find an orignal first. Thanks

o1s1n · 21-12-2022 10:53am

Not something you're going to find in Ireland unfortunately. They were big beasts of things so none would have survived by making their way to people's homes really. Can't say I've known of anyone to have one here.

You'd need to import from the US most likely. Combine it's popularity and the sheer size of it, you'd be talking a lot of money to get one in.

Your best bet is probably a home build but using as many original parts as possible. So buy the original marquee art, an original bezel, should be able to get nice reproduction side art etc.

As I always bang on, just make sure to get a CRT in there. The whole thing with a home build is trying to make it feel authentic and to fool your brain into thinking it's a real machine. No better way to do that than with the glow of a CRT.

No CRT & home build just ends up feeling like a PC in a box.

Inviere · 21-12-2022 11:34am

"No CRT & home build just ends up feeling like a PC in a box."

Truer words....

The moment you see an LCD in a cab, it ceases to be authentic really, and it becomes exactly what it is - wood and screws that there's a computer inside of. With the CRT, it becomes more than the sum of its parts.

o1s1n · 21-12-2022 11:47am

It a weird phenomenon isn't it?

I was in Urban Outfitters (don't ask!) the other day and they had a Puzzle Bobble themed arcade machine. LCD of course and my eyes immediately go 'matrix code' on it and I just see wood, screws and an LCD. My brain doesn't even begin to see it as an arcade machine.

Stick a CRT in there and suddenly it takes on a whole new life.

I suppose if you grew up in a day and age where nobody has a CRT at home and all 'old retro games' are blocky pixelated affairs on LCD TVs you really wouldn't know any different and people like us must sound insane 😄

I always wonder what it must be like for kids going into somewhere like Token and potentially seeing CRTs for the first time.

Steve X2 · 21-12-2022 12:10pm

@o1s1n

"I always wonder what it must be like for kids going into somewhere like Token and potentially seeing CRTs for the first time."

Colonel Panic · 21-12-2022 1:07pm

By the time my son is old enough to go to Token, there won't be any CRTs left in Token's machines (or working controls).

I hope he likes video games because he's in for quite the adventure if he does.

CiDeRmAn · 21-12-2022 4:00pm

I remember playing Tempest 3k, on the Nuon, on a 42" plasma.

I swear, my eyeballs were sweating with the colour temperatures reached!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNicy8BjBG8

o1s1n · 21-12-2022 4:02pm

Do you still have a Nuon these days?

I've lost track of your sell/buy back/sell status on that one 😁

Inviere · 21-12-2022 4:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120022158#Comment_120022158

I'm pretty sure it was a regretful sale, and it's high up on his list if one ever comes up again....reminds me of myself these days 🙃

Optimus Prime · 21-12-2022 6:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120020897#Comment_120020897

I actually seen one of these in Ireland believe it or not. It was for sale in a liquidators type shop that used to be beside smyths toy store in tallaght. Couldn’t believe it when I seen it. It was 700 euros. No idea what happened to it but there you go.

CiDeRmAn · 22-12-2022 10:38am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120022158#Comment_120022158

I foolishly sold it to a former regular, Alphaeagle, for €200... with Tempest 3K and a controller.

The controller alone goes for that kind of money now.

The game is also stratospheric money.

The console is the cheapest bit I think.

Worse again, he offered to sell it back to me, at the same price I sold it to him, and I turned it down :(

Inviere · 22-12-2022 10:42am

I wonder if any madlad dev will take on a Nuon Mister core at some stage

CiDeRmAn · 22-12-2022 11:52am

Might be interesting, but the only game worth playing on it has been well superseded by both TkX, on PS Vita, and T4K on everything else!

Which reminds me, I must hook the PS Vita TV thingy up to the plasma and try TkX on it, could be awesome!

Inviere · 22-12-2022 11:58am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120024808#Comment_120024808

True, it's a LOT of effort for what is essentially, a single game.

CiDeRmAn · 22-12-2022 5:03pm

Yes, yes it is!

And it really has been superseded by the game mentioned.

At the time, if you wanted to play a version other than the original Tempest you had Tempest 2000 and the clone efforts on the PS.

Tempest 3000 came out and was amazing, and nothing could touch it until TxK, but then Atari got their nose out of joint and it was years before the damage in that relationship was repaired and Minter produced Tempest 4k, which is brilliant.

TLDR: Yes, you are right!

CathalDublin · 22-12-2022 11:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120021149#Comment_120021149

They’d be doing well to see a working one in there

tonyotonyo · 24-12-2022 1:57pm

Get the 6 player cabinet and live inside it

Jack burton · 29-01-2023 6:06pm

Just released a new T-shirt.

Finally have everything being made in Ireland now. So no more overseas or shipping bullsh1t.

Shirt and print quality are now probably the best I've ever done

CosmicSmash · 01-02-2023 7:06pm

A project for someone. If you get cold you can always burn it.

o1s1n · 17-02-2023 5:02pm

Nice looking 14 inch BVM for 250 on adverts.

https://www.adverts.ie/other-electronics/sony-trinitron-high-resolution-crt-14-inch/29291581

TechnoFreek · 11-03-2023 10:28pm

Not sure if a bargain but certainly something different.

A Mitsubishi Apricot

http://www.adverts.ie/29563902

Quigs Snr · 12-03-2023 12:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120347282#Comment_120347282

I am pretty sure I have one of them that was bought in arnotts Dublin when they briefly had a computer section. I am surprised that anything from this era is worth anything at all

TechnoFreek · 12-03-2023 8:32pm

I think that apricot was put up at 330 originally. Now down to 100!

MontgomeryClift · 13-03-2023 12:57am

Very nice 28" Bang & Olufsen MX 6000 with rotating stand, remote and instructions in Dublin:

https://www.adverts.ie/tv/tv-vintage-b-o/29580032

I'd buy that for a $: Retro bargains

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