[quote=AArdvark post_id=144633 time=1725412498 user_id=20]
Is that the going price? Man, arcade cabs are expensive! I remember in Time Out they were selling the older ones for $250 and $350
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Yeah, kind of. This is a guide organized by a dude out here from what he has seen. I have never been able to fetch the prices that he lists for anything, but I also hate the process of selling. I could take 15 minutes and take some beautiful pictures of WoW and that would help, I just haven't done so. I should probably do so tomorrow because I don't think I have gotten any bites yet.

https://www.arcade-classics.com/exidy_arcade_price_guide.html

I paid $1200 when I got it for the second time in 2020. I don't have what I paid when I got it the first time in 2009. I think $400 or $500? Prices definitely shot up from the 90s to the 2000s and then again from the 2000s till now. But I can never seem to get what I paid for these games. Or I need the space so badly that I list them for way less than what I paid and way less for what they are "worth" just to make room. I think Flack can attest in what the sales cycle is like for guys like me and him.

Meanwhile, I don't think I have ever offered less than asking price for a game. Probably makes me a sucker. I have watched games get listed and edited with lower prices and waited around for a bit, but I don't think I have ever said to someone, hey, that game you listed for $x.... would you take $x minus $200 just for the hell of it? Just because I am such a COOL GUY. It strikes me as odd and desperate to do that.

And then another thing is that I don't want to bother trying to ship it. Shipping it means the responsibility is on me to wrap it up nicely. I can do that, that is fine, but that's $50 in materials because I don't have them. And then I have to hope that the shipping goes well and it makes it to whoever gets it. It's weird from a fairness standpoint - let's say that I bought a game and had it shipped and it shows up in worse condition than when it left. Am I going to sue the shipping company? They are the pros here. Am I going to try to get the seller to give me money back? It's not their fault nor mine. It seems like an enormous hassle to get "full" value for it.

My hope is that when I die someone really good at selling things helps my wife out with this stuff and takes a fee or whatever, because I sure can't do it.

Is that the going price? Man, arcade cabs are expensive! I remember in Time Out they were selling the older ones for $250 and $350

Gotta let go of it. If I had infinite room, it would be staying.

https://denver.craigslist.org/vgm/d/kittredge-wizard-of-wor-arcade-game/7781267265.html

I would like to clarify that they all work.

I can just imagine the argument at the Ice Cream house:

The wife: My new car is destroyed because you have too many video games, some that you don't even use, others in various states of disrepair. It's been weeks and I still don't have the car we're paying for. Get rid of at least the ones in my spot of the garage before my Jeep comes home.

ICJ: ok :(

Sell it? What's more important, having to brush off snow, ice and the occasional tree trunk or owning a piece of history?

Like in the other thread, I gotta list this one for sale so we can park in the garage. There is already a ton of overflow. There are two games taking up a bay in the garage on their own, and then another two inside my house.

Both locks are now re-keyed with keys I actually have!

(I'm sort of using these threads as repair logs, so don't mind me.)

Put new locks into the front and back of Wizard of Wor tonight.

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=111887 time=1594284323 user_id=829]
[quote=Jizaboz post_id=111886 time=1594277598 user_id=910]
"I AM THE WIZARD. YOU ARE NOT."
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[i]Gauntlet[/i] had the answer to that one:
"Wizard needs food, [i]badly[/i]."

[img]https://i.imgflip.com/47pid6.jpg[/img]
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Haha Haha poor wizard. He really did need the food more than the other 3 despite his magic skills. Excellent joke, Paul lol

Flack, glad to see the turn out for your thread. Great idea. Video games are just like skateboarding and other fun activities. Does not matter if you are the best; all that matters is that you are having fun. Hm actually that is also a quote from an old Powell Peralta video.

[quote=Jizaboz post_id=111886 time=1594277598 user_id=910]
"I AM THE WIZARD. YOU ARE NOT."
[/quote]
[i]Gauntlet[/i] had the answer to that one:
"Wizard needs food, [i]badly[/i]."

[img]https://i.imgflip.com/47pid6.jpg[/img]

Awesome!

"I AM THE WIZARD. YOU ARE NOT."

I think it is both weird and totally cool that this game uses the theme from Dragnet of all things.

[img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50092517131_ed203ea43f_h.jpg[/img]

My wife and I had today off. We took a couch to her friend that lives in Colorado Springs and then drove north a few towns, where I bought this game (again) from my friend Jon.

I used to do this all the time. Used to pick up games, bring 'em home, set them up. I loved it. I loved getting the games. I loved everything about this hobby, which to some degree is more about the feeling of freedom you get in acquisition. It certainly isn't because of the scores I get.

The sun was shining so brightly. It was so nice out. It was nice to do this with my wife, I don't know if we'd done a game run before.

I played a game after we got it and the game was as fun as I remember. More, even, I had forgotten that the game puts a computer-controlled dude on the other side trying to shoot monsters if you try it single player.

What a wonderful day.

Awesome! For a minute there I was WORried!

This game is now again in my possession.

Even after 11 years, my jokes hold up.

[quote=Flack post_id=54851 time=1249907806 user_id=840]
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Yeah, I look forward to... the game descend into a mad battle... against the other human player. [/quote]
Then at some point someone calls a truce. Never trust the guy who calls truce, he's just doing that so that he can kill you. If the person you're playing with calls a truce, agree and then immediately kill that person. Trust me, they were going to kill you anyway. Strike first, strike hard, no mercy sir.[/quote]
Oh, I think here is a way to guarantee the truce holds. Guy who calls a truce slaps down $20 or $100 and asks for a matching amount. First one to kill the other [i]regardless of reason[/i] (unless the loser [i]intentionally[/i] ran into the winner) loses. If no shenanigans occurs each gets their money back.

[quote=AArdvark post_id=54835 time=1249781032 user_id=20]
he could load it at eh age of six. and usually beat me at it. [deleted]
now Iwantpixof the game i spent major bucks on at putt putt[/quote]
[quote=AArdvark post_id=54836 time=1249781070 user_id=20]
and nmone of theat nazi crap[/quote]
'Vark, while the gist of what you are saying does get through, I'd like to recommend you avoid posting when drunk or high. You're not good at it.

I am picking this game up back sometime this week. This exact game, which went from Cleverly to the 1UP. This is the first game I've bought in like 5 years I think. Lemme check.

What's funny is, I was going to give WoW to my friend Jeff, who just moved out of state and would not have been able to take it anyway. So yeah, it did work out for the best.

/sound of Pac-Man dying.