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Re: My Grail!!!
« Reply #15 on: May 03, 2012, 08:26:34 AM »
ahhh i get it, if its not a 30 year old arcade machine, no one is interested right?


What exactly did you expect??

Attacking the people here is not the way to get more response on your next "grails".

Ignoring things we don't like is better than bashing them, right? Or would you prefer a dozen people saying "this is ugly sh*t!"?

Good luck finding it! Or did you already find it and wanted to show....I'm not sure...

« Last Edit: May 03, 2012, 08:28:31 AM by Luigi »

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Re: My Grail!!!
« Reply #16 on: May 03, 2012, 10:44:34 AM »
ok, so its not a cab but i sooooooooooooooooooooo want it!!!

Sub says he wants it so he doesnt have it (yet), and that's exactly what a grail is, because once you got your grail, it isn't your grail anymore (and it's time for a new grail  ;D)

however if i was to ever get a cab, my grail cab would be a juno first...beautiful...

Ah, so he doesn't even OWN a cab, yet manages to say some of our cabs are ugly......hmmmm....IMHO however ugly a cab is, it's always better than having NO cab..... ::) ::)

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« Reply #17 on: May 03, 2012, 11:03:20 AM »
You sure got some attention Sub, however i think it wasent the type you wanted.... :lol:


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Re: My Grail!!!
« Reply #18 on: May 03, 2012, 11:20:48 AM »
Let it be clear that I would have had zero problems about posting the superman statue as a grail would it have been in the "All the rest" section and a maybe bit more descriptive title. To each his own and of course he is allowed to have an opinion about cabs being ugly or not even if he doesn't own one but it was just not a handy move to say we are bad people here because that is simply NOT true (give or take one or two or three exceptions that got dealt with sooner or later)....

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Re: My Grail!!!
« Reply #19 on: May 03, 2012, 12:48:00 PM »
it might be a jealous thing...im jealous of you lot having loads of money and all those cabs, and massive gamerooms....perhaps its that!

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Re: My Grail!!!
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« Reply #21 on: May 03, 2012, 04:27:48 PM »
Thats from Batman Gyruss, not Superman  ;)

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Re: My Grail!!!
« Reply #22 on: May 03, 2012, 07:25:24 PM »
Moved to a more appropriated section ... 'All the rest'  :-X

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Re: My Grail!!!
« Reply #23 on: May 04, 2012, 10:21:37 AM »
it might be a jealous thing...im jealous of you lot having loads of money and all those cabs, and massive gamerooms....perhaps its that!

I can only speak for me and my mate Dirk: we have all but loads of money!! Most of the cabs we received have been gutted and had to be restored or at least repaired. Dirk is not rich, but he runs a little business with alarm systems and bought the hall for storage (and tax) reasons. There was an empty room 6x10m. We started to paint it and installed cables and outlets and put some cabs inside. Peu á peu as the french say  :)  It slowly grew to what it is today and so was the cab collection. There were only a few cabs that we paid "big" money for. Space Duel for example. We bought PCBs, cleaned, repaired and sold them so we could afford more and new stuff.

As for others: well, they might have a little more money they can spend because they have a good job or no kids/family. But they also put a lot, and I mean LOT of work into restoring the cabs.

So there's no reason to be jealous. It takes some patience instead. Try to find other people in your area that are interested in videogames. maybe one of them has room left and you can have your own gameroom. Maybe not in your house but I too have no gameroom at home. Only one cab.

Make a start, buy a small cab for your home!

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Re: My Grail!!!
« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2012, 10:31:36 AM »
Yep, I have a very average income and can't afford to spend loads of money on the hobby either. But that's not really neccesary. My first cab was a Galaxian, 150 euros. Spent close to nothing to restore it, used an old cheap TV as monitor, some black paint for the inside, the most expensive was the powder coating of the metal parts, but I could have painted it myself too.

The most I ever paid for a cab was the SW, but that was probably the best investment I ever made :)

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Re: My Grail!!!
« Reply #25 on: May 05, 2012, 09:59:01 AM »
sorry for coming across as a 'git' guys, i just wish some of you lived near me!!!

i plan on having my gameroom....when of the kids leave home!

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« Reply #26 on: May 05, 2012, 10:08:47 AM »
sorry for coming across as a 'git' guys, i just wish some of you lived near me!!!

i plan on having my gameroom....when of the kids leave home!

No worries sub! - i don´t have kids, and therefore i can use more money on everything else! - in this case Arcade games, PCB´s, Marquees etc..
But it will happen some day, and when it does, you will have the rest of your life during what you like the most! :spaceace:

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Re: My Grail!!!
« Reply #27 on: June 08, 2012, 12:39:57 PM »
my 'grail' arrived yesterday, its a lovely thing indeed!

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« Reply #28 on: June 08, 2012, 01:13:50 PM »
Congrats

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Re: My Grail!!!
« Reply #29 on: June 08, 2012, 02:27:47 PM »
heres hoping a get a grail cab one day too :)