Anyone here collect Arcade Machines or Pinball?

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Originally Posted by kittychloe

Slim pickings in aus for a cheap ass, limited to $450 for now (bills) and within Sydney.. Hard to tell what machines are just remakes or simple paint jobs vs legitimate dedicated, can't trust Aussies not to rip you off lol jamma seem to start at $800 to $1200 here even when broken

telling a legit machine from a conversion really just comes down to knowing machines well. most of the time I can tell you what the machine used to be before it was converted. FWIW All machines have a metal (sometimes paper) plaque on the back that tell you what it was, provide a serial number, etc. so it's pretty rare that this wouldn't be in-tact.

as for those prices, $800-$1200 is what you might play for a Japanese Candy cab but I can't believe anyone would charge that much for a mid-90s fighter.

Originally Posted by KnightOfTruth

The TMNT is definitely a must-have! I've been creating my MAME machine for over a year now (off and on -- but mostly off). Been purchasing individual parts and drawing (and redrawing) my plans/themes. I decided to go with the 4-player cab as I've often got a lot of people over the house. I don't really have the room right now for more than 1 so I've been really picky on the theme -- let's just call it a work-in-progress I'll post a link to my project thread on arcadecontrols once I get it into "progress" mode!

if you're going 4-player why not just pickup an old 4-player konami cab and swap out the PCB for a PC?