Grand Wizard of Wor

[Jizaboz]

"I AM THE WIZARD. YOU ARE NOT."

Gauntlet had the answer to that one:
"Wizard needs food, badly."

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.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

(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.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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.

[AArdvark]

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

[Casual Observer]

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 :(

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I would like to clarify that they all work.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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

https://denver.craigslist.org/vgm/d/kit ... 67265.html

[AArdvark]

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

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

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

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_a ... 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.