muddymusic said:
Sheriff upright Nintendo is rare, only 2 or 3 known in the world, although probably the same with the Sega version. It's a shame as it's Nintendo's best looking cab imo, would love to see some more found so I can get one lol.
Atari Popeye is a rare one too - the fact Alpha1 still can't get one with all the cabs he's found over the years is testament to that I think!
There's gonna be stuff pop up that people didn't know existed at all, things keep showing up you just didn't think was made. There's also a lot of collectors who just won't reveal the rareties they've got in their collections, or just don't visit the forums. I think there's a ton of guys like that out there, with cabs that have probably never been seen by anyone else.
Yeah, basically if Ol doesn't have one yet, it must be Rare
DanP said:
I don't agree with this. In my experience, collectors storage (either storage units or stored at home) are almost always so much better than ops/ex ops barns, sheds, etc where they were originally found. Every one of these type of places I've seen have been only marginally better than outside. Invariably they have been filthy, damp or downright wet and either infested with insects, mice/rats or worse either at the time or at some time in the past. Most collectors who buy and store cabs don't do it because they like 'hoarding', it's very expensive to store a large number of big, heavy, fridge sided cabs. They do it because they don't have space at that point in time to have them in a game room location.
big10p said:
I think it's a shame that cabs get hoarded away and not touched for years, when they could be in the hands of other collectors that would love to own them, and get them up to scratch and actually played. Hoarded cabs are no better off (nor is the hobby) than when they were 'found' in an old ops lock-up, or something. Just my opinion - people can do whatever they like with their own property, of course.
Most of the machines I've bought have been in Cold Damp Garages, Sheds, Old Buildings, Carparks, Back Gardens rotting, rusting away if they had still been there, now there in Dry Insulated Buildings
If you don't buy the machines when they came up for sale, you have zero chance of getting many of them now, plus if many of us hadn't saved some of these cabs, there probably would be far less cabs left in UK now, lots would of been scrapped or bought buy morons that would probably mame them like Op Wolfs on ebay, If you bought them and stored them while you work on getting extensions done or games building then at least they have been saved
iamjimmi said:
Does anyone in the UK have a Sega Time Traveler??
Used to see many of the cabs listed for sale on ebay
Seen a few of the those Sega cabs over the years
How many Cisco Heat Deluxe Cockpit cabs have you seen, but there was one on ebay once and no one bid on it at £10 starting bid, probably got scrapped
There must be Hundreds of people in UK that bought all the cabs from ebay and arcades over the last 20+ years that have never posted anything on any Forums so what you think is rare probably isn't as half of them used to Regular be for sale
G-Loc Deluxe, Hard Drivin Deluxe used to be on quite a lot, never see them now and who on forums ever shows pics of them
Sega Hang-On Deluxe I've seen 3 at least for sale, After Burner Commanders no mention from members they have one but plenty were sold
Lots of machines I've only seen one for sale, Like Sega Shooting Master
SCI Cockpit someone bought, never seen that since
That Sente Simulator cab in Germany, along with Outrun Converted Le Mans Spinning cab
Only wish I'd had the time to Save Pictures and Screen shot all the ebay listings over the years for the machines sold or unsold
Lots of rare machines you don't see now, so what happened to them all since people bought them?
Seen 3/4 Thunderblade Deluxe over the years
There is a reason many are Rare now, because they were crap and no one wanted to buy them, rare doesn't mean valuable
Still can't find anyone with another Continental Circus Cockpit Japanese original cab but who knows, there could be 10 people that own them over the EU but only a small percentage of people that own Arcade machines seem to post about them
