Alex Posted July 16, 2001 Share Posted July 16, 2001 Welcome to the new forum! Hope you enjoy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2383 Posted July 16, 2001 Share Posted July 16, 2001 Cool I'm the Second to post here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Destructo Posted August 8, 2001 Share Posted August 8, 2001 Third! I've got a Tempest cabaret and a Battlezone cabaret. Anybody else here have Atari arcade games at home? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakogame 箱亀 Posted August 8, 2001 Share Posted August 8, 2001 Holy shit, $50 for a galaga!! Those things sell for about $600 everywhere I've looked. Hell, the PCB alone goes for about $150 on ebay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h.e.r.o Posted August 10, 2001 Share Posted August 10, 2001 Today, for the first time, I played Galaga on an arcade machine. I had had plenty of practice beforehand having owned this on the Game Boy Advance, so I was pumped. It still said 25 cents on the front. Unfortunately, I had to put in another token since it wouldn't accept the first one, so I got screwed out of 25 cents. But once I got it working, I was on a roll!! Of course, there was no line to play the game. I tell you, the arcade version is much better than the Game Boy Advance version. People behind me playing Killer Instinct II gave me a couple of wierd looks. When I reached the ninth level, one eventually said, "Uh, wow, you're pretty good at this. Where'd you practice this game?" I smiled and said the GBA gave me a good jumpstart. The arcade I played at was NOT an old one, by the way. It opened about 2 months ago. The fact that the owner actually bothered to buy the Galaga machine (and the Mrs. Pac-Man on the right) really shows faith in the people of old classics. Imagine, after all these years, it stills says 25 cents. Isn't that great? I left that arcade feeling I got an incredibly great value for 25 (well, okay, 50 with the rip-off) cents. Neato. After I left, I noticed a couple of other people started to take interest in it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid_sky Posted August 10, 2001 Share Posted August 10, 2001 h.e.r.o... you are now a man.. that is my all time fave arcade game, when you become one with the machine and get in the zone its amazing.. i have a little galaga tribute page its mostly bits and pieces of neat trivia that i have found online, if any of you want to see it it is.. my crappy ISP deleted some of the pictures but I am working on fixing it up, if you wanna see a pi thats not on there just email me and i will send it Galaga and to the one blessed with the galaga machine known as Ben.. you got one great deal.. I would give up my computer tv everything just for a galaga cab... is it a mini or a full cabinent? (or cocktail.. ) everyone else, im the 7th to post here so everyone headed to CGE take it easy and have a good trip [ 08-09-2001: Message edited by: liquid_sky ] [ 08-09-2001: Message edited by: liquid_sky ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid_sky Posted August 10, 2001 Share Posted August 10, 2001 thanks, I am planning on adding more ..ala gaplus galaxian, galaga '88 and so on. It sounds like you got one of those once in a lifetime deals, I was going to bid on a mini-cab on ebay for 450.. but i didnt have 450, go figure btw, all of your tellings of your finds makes me wish i didnt live in the middle of nowhere [ 08-10-2001: Message edited by: liquid_sky ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekish Posted August 10, 2001 Share Posted August 10, 2001 I've been seeing a lot of that Galaga/Ms. Pacman hybrid out there lately. Must be someone's way of offering two classics in one unit for everyone. I haven't seen any other machines featuring other games like that (well, more than one I mean) so I assume many were made and shipped out to arcades and bars (I played one in a bar that I played a show at recently). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skatepunk60 Posted August 14, 2001 Share Posted August 14, 2001 I was at an arcade the other day and they had galaga and mrs. pacman next to each other for sale it was like $900 plus tax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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