Greatest Arcade Bargains You Ever Snagged!...

[Alpha1]

I can probably remember a few more given some more thought, but off the top of my head..

Fish Tales £100
Twilight Zone £400
Road Show £400
Dragons Lair £120
Galaxian £16!
Firefox £120
Invaders free
EDOT £350
Pacman £150
Hard Drivin free
Starblade £150 for 2!
Black Widow from back of a pub in Ireland £150
About 60 PCBs from Butlins Bognor £50

 

[Vorbis]

I'm sure HMRC are making lots of notes 😁

 

[Vorbis]

For the record I've always sold everything for much much less than I paid 🤣

 

[Retroman839]

I can probably remember a few more given some more thought, but off the top of my head..

Fish Tales £100
Twilight Zone £400
Road Show £400
Dragons Lair £120
Galaxian £16!
Firefox £120
Invaders free
EDOT £350
Pacman £150
Hard Drivin free
Starblade £150 for 2!
Black Widow from back of a pub in Ireland £150
About 60 PCBs from Butlins Bognor £50

60 PCB’s from buttlins ..
For £50
That was a good save ..
Because that was the kind of haul that would have probably been destined for a fire pit. 👍 you deserved to get a bargain when you think you was actually looking to save /keep /store and preserve some arcade PCB’s..

Would love to know what was best working pcb from that save?

 

[_Matt_]

I Won a Goliath in a raffle 🥰

If I remember right it was £100 or something like that, the raffle was to see who got to buy it. Still a bargain though as it was a Salamander Goliath project, no monitor and came with a NOS cpo and uncut marquee. I've got a pic of it somewhere from the raffle.

 

[qjuk]

I can probably remember a few more given some more thought, but off the top of my head..

Fish Tales £100
Twilight Zone £400
Road Show £400
Dragons Lair £120
Galaxian £16!
Firefox £120
Invaders free
EDOT £350
Pacman £150
Hard Drivin free
Starblade £150 for 2!
Black Widow from back of a pub in Ireland £150
About 60 PCBs from Butlins Bognor £50

Was the Black Widow in the rare European cabinet?

 

[Alpha1]

60 PCB’s from buttlins ..
For £50
That was a good save ..
Because that was the kind of haul that would have probably been destined for a fire pit. 👍 you deserved to get a bargain when you think you was actually looking to save /keep /store and preserve some arcade PCB’s..

Would love to know what was best working pcb from that save?

They were actually free but I was so amazed by the engineer being so helpful I gave him £50.

I still have the Wardner, Double Dragon and Robocop 2 from there as well as probably nearly all the rest. I can't remember exactly what the others were.

 

[Alpha1]

Was the Black Widow in the rare European cabinet?

Yes. Some pub landlord popped up offering that and a DigDug for sale.

 

[Retroman839]

They were actually free but I was so amazed by the engineer being so helpful I gave him £50.

I still have the Wardner, Double Dragon and Robocop 2 from there as well as probably nearly all the rest. I can't remember exactly what the others were.

I was at wells Gardner before they closed in uk .
And the engineer told the owner to give me any old chasiss I wanted for free ..

It must be an engineer thing!
Happy to see others interested?

 

[Alpha1]

Oooh just remembered Final Fight was one of the PCBs, and Pit Fighter.

Damn all coming back now! Heavy Smash too!

 

[Retroman839]

Some good games at the buttlins !

 

[kingtreelo]

I'm sure HMRC are making lots of notes 😁

100% they are looking at the UKVAC forums for financial information....

honestly

 

[Chihiro]

They were actually free but I was so amazed by the engineer being so helpful I gave him £50.

I still have the Wardner, Double Dragon and Robocop 2 from there as well as probably nearly all the rest. I can't remember exactly what the others were.

And the Daytona with more in the cash box than you actually paid for the machine

 

[Alpha1]

And the Daytona with more in the cash box than you actually paid for the machine

Forgot about that 🙃

 

[Retroman839]

If I remember right it was £100 or something like that, the raffle was to see who got to buy it. Still a bargain though as it was a Salamander Goliath project, no monitor and came with a NOS cpo and uncut marquee. I've got a pic of it somewhere from the raffle.

Yep.
Awsome cab
Wish I still had it .

I got some pics too

 

[Retroman839]

Picked this up with alpha 3 blue A&B £100 .
electrocoin cab for the SF alpha series I think ?

I refreshed it applied the HF arts from muddy music.

 

[Alpha1]

I bought that Daytona for £100, and when we drilled the cashbox it had £260+ in it 🎉

 

[Shipwreck Arcade]

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Picked this up with alpha 3 blue A&B £100 .
electrocoin cab for the SF alpha series I think ?

I refreshed it applied the HF arts from muddy music.

Nice for £100 🌟👍

 

[Retroman839]

Nice for £100 🌟👍

So it was in a gym in Essex ,
But the guy got it for free from a pizza shop in central London ..
He said 2 cabs were down some stairs at a pizza shop. He got it for free as
Pizza shop was closing and nobody wanted to lift it up stairs .
It had not been played for ages because of something really silly like the jamma harness wasn’t connected correctly or a loose wire on the colours . Something silly like that ..

It was a Simple fix .

 

[Retroman839]

Goodge street las vagas casino
Ok baby £100