Bulk shipment deal thoughts

[steve23]

I have a lot of project games I'm never going to get to restoring. I know, everybody does, but I have more than most. It seems I can't stop buying deals of fixer uppers. Anyway, I had a thought of shipping a container of games, and lots of spare parts, i.e. monitors, control panels, power suppliers, etc. all in one container to Europe. Here's a partial list, it'll probably twice as many when I make an actual inventory.:

Cockpit Games
Sega Turbo   2 each complete, dead
Monaco GP  cp wiring cut
Pole Position 1 broken door hinges, bad pcb
Star Trek, works, intermitten sound problems
Omega Race, very clean, dead, power supply?

Mini / Cabaret Games
Elevator Action? Bad ps?
Battlezone bad pcb, dead?
Space Encounters dead pcb, have one I bought off EBay to test

Up Right Games
Taito “Blue” Space Invaders, bad pcb, dead
Star Trek U/R, bad monitor, pcb’s?
Tomahawk 777, bad pcb?
Millipede needs bezel and pcb
Twin Cobra JAMMA cab good need a pcb
Zenophobe JAMMA cab, needs a pcb
Virtua Cop 2 graphic issue, have spare pcb that might work
KickMan bad ps, good pcb
Frogger rough, needs pcb, joystick
Carnival no marquee, dead
Battlezone bad pcb, good monitor
Asteroids broken coin door, dead monitor, game coins up
Asteroids Deluxe 2 each I have rebuilt boards haven’t installed
Centipede 3 each complete, rebuilt boards to be installed
Midway Space Invaders dead board, monitor?
Future Spy bad power supply
Sprint One, dead complete
Sprint Two 2 each, both dead, one complete, one missing pcb
Operation Thunderbolt dead
OutRun nice, needs pcb, which I have several
Make Trax, 2 each, not tested
Omega Race nice, dead pcb?
Galaxian so-so condition, board just rebuilt
BadLands no pedals plays
Gorf no coin door, bad pcb, which I have many, monitor works
Gyruss, pretty nice plays 100%

Cocktails
Taito Space Invaders 2 each, one complete, dead, one missing ps and pcb
Universal with bootleg “Pento”, plays, sound amp bad
Asteroids, broken glass, dead, but very clean inside
Qix nice, dead, many spare board sets laying around
Centipede, I think 2 each both need art and pcbs

Spares
4-5 pallets of various monitors
100-150 PCB's
50-75 CP's
2-3 pallets Atari, Nintendo, Midway/Bally power supplies

      Is there any collector who'd be interested AND could handle dealing with a container of games, then distributing or reselling as they chose? Or maybe a group of collectors getting together for a bulk deal? This would keep some collectors busy for a long time. As a lot I'm thinking $100 per game and maybe $1000 for all the spare parts. My guess for a 20' container to Europe, probably less than $2000.00US. I can be contacted at joustdaddy at yahoo.com, thanks for your input, Steve.

PS: hey Darth, finally got the seat shaker motor on my Star Blade working!

[DarthNuno]

Thanks Steve for the idea 

It's maybe a good timeliness for few collectors here in Europe to catch games at low prices.
If we are at least 4 or 5, with something like 1000$ per guy, we may bring a lot of these cabs here 
Maybe some "killercab'" are missing in that list (such Q*Bert, Burger Time, PacMan, MsPacMan or Galaga by example) 

PS: hey Darth, finally got the seat shaker motor on my Star Blade working!

That's great, but guess what ? I've unplugged the motor shaker on my StarBlade, because it is just too much for me  It gives me a headache after 4 or 5 'hits'... I'm getting old 

[steve23]

actually I could include one Ms.Pac Man , I think 2 Galaga's, one Super Pac Man, and one QBert. Still yet, I'm sure I have another 30-40 to add to the list. In general I was trying to determine if this type of bulk sale would work. Here in the states so many old school games are being dumped by the operators nobody is really interested in my older collection. Well Darth if you know of others who might be serious, I'd like to see if we can make it happen. I KNOW you guys would simply have a blast opening a container full of classic games!

[DarthNuno]

actually I could include one Ms.Pac Man , I think 2 Galaga's, one Super Pac Man, and one QBert. Still yet, I'm sure I have another 30-40 to add to the list. In general I was trying to determine if this type of bulk sale would work. Here in the states so many old school games are being dumped by the operators nobody is really interested in my older collection. Well Darth if you know of others who might be serious, I'd like to see if we can make it happen. I KNOW you guys would simply have a blast opening a container full of classic games!

OK Steve,

Can you provide me a maximum of pictures please ?
I would be up for many games (Q*Bert, Burger Time, Asteroids, Super PacMan, and certainly more...), but need to see the cabinets first of course 
I hope other collectors will join me on this in order to make this 'adventure' possible 

Thanks for your help on this by the way 

 

[logan]

I think I would join for the "Ms.Pac Man" if bruno doesn't take it. Maybe the Frogger...

Maybe you could send bruno the pics and he can upload them so everybody can see them!

[Zorg]

regarding the list I am interested (seriously) by the following:

Taito Space Invader
Battlezone
atari's cocktail
just add a burgertime and a PacMan for me

regarding the spares, I know it may hard to deal with a establishing a listing, but it would greatly help, if you could provide a listing and pics of what's available.

[misteriddler]

Hey ! Thanks for the idea  

On my side cabs like Burgertime, Ms Pac-Man, Galaga... would be great for sure.

[atarimania]

Hi,

Thanks or the info.

I would interesting in Millipede, Asteroids Deluxe, maybe Sprint 1 and 2 or 3 other non Atari cabinets  If you can find a Lunar Lander I'm also interesting in 

Franck

[petieken]

I would like to see some pictures too. I may be interested in a cocktail, either space invaders or centipede.

[Zorg]

whooooosh !!

with DartNuno, Misteriddler and Atarimania you have some serious and credible guys interested.

[Superully]

@steve23:

perhaps you'll find a Disc of Tron Environmental Cabinet somewhere in between  I totally would be up for that, together with a Q*bert, a Millipede, a Galaga, a Pac Man, a Ms Pc Man, a Battlezone and a Sprint 2. And if you happen to have a Pole Position II Sitdwon cabinet, I'd take that one, too  . Who knows who and what will come through in the end regarding this deal.

[atarimania]

Hi,

Any news ? 

Franck

[steve23]

So sorry I haven't responded to this post. Honestly, I just totally forgot! But I got an email from Bruno yesterday, so with that reminder I'll get photos today and sent to Bruno to post, hopefully tonight.

[DarthNuno]

So sorry I haven't responded to this post. Honestly, I just totally forgot! But I got an email from Bruno yesterday, so with that reminder I'll get photos today and sent to Bruno to post, hopefully tonight.

Thanks Steve for your feed back,I know you're very busy.

Arghh.. can't wait to see the pictures 

[steve23]

OK...finally, I got pictures taken. They can be seen at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73134604@N00/3230574704/in/photostream/

I wasn't sure how to download them here. I added jukeboxes and it is important to note not all items are being sold. At some point I have to decide what projects to keep. I included pictures of parts too. My hope is to come up with a 40 foot container load which I think will hold in the area of 35-40 games and lots of parts could be put on top of them. I really do not want to attempt to sell these one at a time, but if it must be that way I will. We have local docks at Brunswick, Georgia and /Savannah, Georgia. And NO the StarBlade is not for sale, just thought I'd throw in the photos for the fun of it Have fun!!