free to a good home-coinop games! - Axiom Message Boards

If this post is frowned upon just curse loudly and I'll slink off under a rock. I'm not looking to sell, no, I'm way past that, selling became a dream months ago.
I have 8 (eight) coinop arcade machines in the garage taking up the space of a small car and I insist on reclaiming that car's worth of space. If any of you axiomites want a game or 8 in your room, the're yours.
These are big-ass machines from the 80's (mostly) and if you have the space, way cool.No space here. Just looking to place them in good homes, axiom homes. Located in NE Kansas, shipping is futile.
Most need minor repair- < $100. Here's the list.
Wizard of wor- This one works fine
Battlezone- resets itself
Gyrus- needs monitor kit
Kangaroo- monitor kit
Gravitar-monitor quit
Space invaders- monitor kit,game board might be gone
Jungle hunt, 10 yrd fight- pretty rough units.
I beg you, make these leave. Delivery is not out of the question.
I hope posting this is not a foul, my apologies if it is.

Rats! If only you were in North WESTERN Kansas

(I have kin in Victoria).

Darn nice of you. I think Randy and/or Bren should drive down and help you out.

Good luck with those. You must have a fantastic collection of working stuff to have such surplus!

Duckman, Imo I think you are making a very generous offer to members of the board, I don't think anyone would think of this as a foul. Hopefully someone near your area can take advantage of your kind offer.

Maybe you could strap a couple to the top of your car and meet me in the IHOP parking lot. I'll be the one looking "other than normal."

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I'd pick one up, by A) I live in central Iowa, and B) I have a MAME cabinet I built myself, so I can play all of those games already.

These would be great for people wanting to build a MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) cabinet to play thousands of games.

I just appreciate people like you willing to give things away like that. Very cool!

Or great for someone to restore... Grr... people who take perfectly good machines and make MAME cabinets out of them piss me off.

(yes, I understand that some of these probably don't fit the definition of "perfectly good games")

I wish I had room for one or two of those things, but not so much. Not to mention the whole distance/transport thing.

Yeah, I know. That is why I built my own from scratch. I was thinking more of the ones that were beat up a bit. Plus, some of those aren't worth restoring once you factor in all of the reproduction pieces and labor to do them for a game of questionable value.

I've seen some cabinets restored AND turned into MAME cabinets. They use the same controls that the original game had, which limits the games that can be played, but then the cabinet looks awesome too. One guy I know took an original Donkey Kong, fixed the wood and sides, replaced the artwork with new reproductions, basically fixed it all up. When the DK board went out, he turned it into a MAME cabinet that just plays 4-way games, like DK, Pac Man, etc. No other non-Donkey Kong looking additions were added.

hmmmm, not sure where you live but lets assume Topeka, that would put me about 240 miles away. It would be cool to have an 80's arcade machine in my new rec room, but I would not know how difficult these would be to fix? What exactly is meant by "Monitor Kit"? If you only had Glaxian, Tempest, Defender, or Asteroids, etc...

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Rats! If only you were in North WESTERN Kansas (I have kin in Victoria).

Victoria is easy. My sister lives in Hays and my dad is driving out there sometime soon with my truck, will pass right by Victoria. Now convincing your kin to store game(s) for you is another story. Of corse if you're driving down for christmas in the family truckster you could throw some coats over it in the back and the wife might not notice till it's too late.

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hmmmm, not sure where you live but lets assume Topeka, that would put me about 240 miles away. It would be cool to have an 80's arcade machine in my new rec room, but I would not know how difficult these would be to fix? What exactly is meant by "Monitor Kit"? If you only had Glaxian, Tempest, Defender, or Asteroids, etc...

Add 45 or so miles to topeka. I'm to the west just outside Wamego. I gave the galaxians cocktail to my boss. He just bought a new monitor and stuck it in. They're $179 I think.

They're not particularly hard to work on for the most part. A monitor kit is a collection of small parts mostly capacitors soldered to the monitor circuit board.The capacitors dry out over the years and the monitor will work, but the screen will be all goofy. The parts are $5-10, you just have to be able to install them. There's a place that rebuilds boards- www.arcadeshop.com I've never tried them but they list the boards they do and the monitor boards are $55-75 depending on model. Switching out a board easy. A case can be made for just replacing the whole monitor, tube and all, which is a little more work but it's all new then.
The Gravitar is a color vector monitor- different breed of cat. The exchange on that is $75 and they have an upgrade of some kind they reccomend thats like another 50 or so. I had that game 4 days and the monitor just quit while it was running.

The Mame deal is the slick way to go if you're focus is on playing and nothing else. Having a line of original games is more for the collector or someone after the atmospere.
If you're serious I can go into more detail on what you're looking at on the various games.