From: mike - view profile
Date: Mon, May 11 1998 12:00 am
Email: mike
Groups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting

Robot2084 wrote:
> And some pins went for nice prices, you're right. That Sega SW for 2000 was a
> nice buy, I think. Absolutely mint.

It had some sideart scratches, but was definitely a nice piece. I
wanted it but it went beyond my self-imposed price ceiling.

> All the Apollo 13s were around 1000 I think. One for 1200 I think.

The 2nd one auctioned was in fact mint (1200). Good buy on a nice pin.

> Very good prices on the 25"s. Seemed like most went for under 500. Wish I
> had bid on one in retrospect. Oh well.

> Can anyone post exact prices? (I saw about 2 dozen people writing down
> prices.)

Here's what I wrote down, while I was there; including all vids up to
the pins (oops, except the last 5 or six 25"ers). I left after the pins
were auctioned as the rest of the rows did honestly seem pretty beat.
Does anyone know what the Assault went for? The joysticks were trashed
and there was some burn in too.

Ms. Pacman 200
Galaga 300
Centipede 150
Ms. Pacman cabaret 375
Killer Instinct 500
Virtua Fighter 2 650
War Gods 400
X-Men 375
Lethal Enforcers 487.5
Terminator 2 Judge'day 662.5
Lethal Enforcers 525
Neo Geo 4slot 300
Mortal Kombat 2 475
SF2 CE Turbo Hyperft. 400
Neo Geo 2slot 575
Sat. Night Slam Masters 375
Gauntlet 2 300 bad burn in
Mortal Kombat 2 300 marked good, wouldn't come up
Neo Geo 4slot 500 marked good, wouldn't come up
Virtua Fighter 625
Beast Busters 375 Rob said, "take this home and bust your beast!" LOL
Time Killers 200
Time Killers 350
Tekken 800
Mortal Kombat 4 3250 new in box, all we saw was the cardboard
Stargate 275
Neo Geo 1slot 350
Ms.Pacman 275
Ms.Pacman cabaret 300
Lethal Enforcers 500
Soul Edge 375
Lethal Enforcers 425
Battle Arena Toshinden2 500
Hoop It Up Basketball 1550
Virtua Fighter 550
Ultm. Mortal Kombat3 375
Tri Sports 175 was only displaying in blue
Namco Classics 500 Pacman, DigDug, Rally X

These are not in any particular order. I just typed them in from the
auction roster sheet as I recorded them.

Also my $.02 on the auction. Rob cranks through the thing at a pace
fair to both sellers and buyers. There were a couple of the USAA people
there with bidder numbers, although I didn't see them bid while I was
there. My wife did overhear one of them verbally slamming on someone
else (lots of 4 letter words) and then ironically 5 minutes later these
people were chatting as if they were good friends; kinda funny to
watch. Rob took several opportunities to slam the USAA auctions which
was cool; maybe they'll get a clue, although I doubt it. Not a lot of
nice stuff, but a few good buys. Most of the 25"ers that are priced
above had immaculate monitors and were generally pretty clean pieces.
The air conditioning seemed to work sporadically (it was 93 outside).

I wish I'd have known there were going to be so many RGVAC people
there. See you all in November, or whenever they get back there.

Mike