WOTW............for $3500!
mothraRZ
Don't know if the link will work, but a Cinematronics WOTW just went
for $3500. (Ebay 260002688205)
Has anyone ever played this game? Looks pretty neat, but I have heard
it isn't much fun.
Mark
good...
Mark
Eric
game hence the rarity. This was discussed in klov and it was determined
that this is most likely a conversion from starcastle the reason no
side art, see ionpool for info. Pretty wild it went for so much. I
don't think I would personally even want the game but I guess if you
are an old skool wotw fan with deep pockets then it might be worth it.
~eric
arcadeguy
collectors piece!
Andy
"arcadeguy" <arca...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I agree its not a great game and can get boring but it one hell of a
> collectors piece!
Perhaps, if the goal is to collect and not to play. If it is the other way
around than this thing wouldn't make it in my game room.
Andy
Pin Geek
powered up, no picture, $300. I had no idea of it's worth and walked away,
like an idiot. That WOTW looks cool! I wonder what the sound effects are
like.
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Chris Romero
of the Star Trek S.T.O.S. game that have been on eBay lately.
But still impreseive to see WOTW on eBay in any form.
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Troy
gets $3500, last one I seen sell anyway a couple yrs back.
I will say the parts look brand new on it, no wonder why.
probably had the kit nib somewhere, never seen an arcade.
if that's the case there maybe more then 10 out there, some conversion.
Troy,
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Matty-t
Troy,
IIRC there were no dedicated units. It was said even the units that
came out of the factory were converted Star Castle or AA's. So "factory
conversion" might be a better term. They reportedly released a bunch of
conversion kits to other operators. I think the factory conversions
when to trade shows, etc. At any rate, the factory conversions would
have had side art.
Zonn has hosted the conversion doc for the electronics so playing it
today is easy if you have a SC or an AA and some time. That is of
course on real hardware, as you can play it in mame as well.
I would eventually like to have one, but thats simply due to my WOTW
envy. it would be interesting to see what they could have done with it
on the Cosmic Chasm hardware.
Anyone have any WOTW kits or parts? (marquee, bezel, overlay, etc)
Email me please.
- Matt
rgvac...@mgcap.com
for the AMOA show. Those used a color vector monitor and had a special
color adapter board and what looked like a custom sound board. There
are only two that are known to still exist and each is slightly
different. Every other War of the Worlds game was sold as a conversion
kit.
I would suspect there were about 50-75 WotW kits that shipped with
sideart, and another 20-30 that shipped with no sideart. A larger
percentage of those were likely scrapped.
The WotW that just sold on eBay was a conversion kit placed into a Star
Castle/Armor Attack cabinet. Any AMOA or 'prototype' game that
Cinematronics sent out would have had sideart. If Cleveland Coin had
purchased the game off the AMOA floor from Cineamtronics (which was
known to happen more than not), it would have had sideart.
War of the Worlds is actually a fun game if played on the original
hardware with a vector monitor. Free-play (or equivalent) makes it even
more fun. I now wish I had not sold mine. Oh well... :)
A fair price for the game nonetheless.
tm
Scott S
> IIRC there were no dedicated units. It was said even the units that
> came out of the factory were converted Star Castle or AA's. So "factory
> conversion" might be a better term. They reportedly released a bunch of
> conversion kits to other operators. I think the factory conversions
> when to trade shows, etc. At any rate, the factory conversions would
> have had side art.
There's 2 pictures of a dedicated machine on KLOV:
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=W&game_id=10401
The color photo shows it running on a b&w monitor (with a colored overlay),
but the magazine photo was probably a pic of a color vector monitor one.
> Zonn has hosted the conversion doc for the electronics so playing it
> today is easy if you have a SC or an AA and some time. That is of
> course on real hardware, as you can play it in mame as well.
Seeing a conversion go for $3,500, it makes me wish I had kept my AA and
WotW marquee...
Troy
hardware and who knows that else. man that would have been something, damn
shame they when bankrupt :(
the WOTW that a saw sell did have color monitor and special color pcb driver
board, $3500. I thought about driving the price further, but that was all I
would go.
Troy,