Atlanta Auction (6-16-07) Results

[cgba...@gmail.com]

This was my first visit to the Atlanta auction, and knowing that
nobody usually takes prices down here, I went ahead and scribbled them
down. This was a very small auction, and there seemed to be more dead
games than working games. Considering it was a small auction, there
was a LOT of absolute junk, but there were also good deals. From what
I was told the auctions here are usually much larger.

All I was really interested in was the candy cabinet with the CPS2 in
it, and I promised myself before the bidding started that I wouldn't
go past $350. Wouldn't you know it, I got into a bidding war with
another guy and we took it all the way to $350; I barely won it and
now and felt pretty lame for having waged war for the stupid thing.
Dude, if you're reading this, I'm sorry it came to that. But anyway, I
also met a lot of people from the newsgroups, which was cool.

So now that that's out of the way, here's the list:

Uprights
Ms Pac-Man $275
Ms Pac-Man $275
Multi-Arcade $2500
Ms Pac-Man/Galaga $925
Multicade $950
Multi-Arcade $900
Pac-Man 25th/Ms Pac-man/Galaga $600
Multicade $900
Ms Pac-Man/Galaga PASS
Multicade ?
Multi-Arcade $1050
War of the Bugs $100
Multi-Arcade $1100
Lethal Enforcers $135
Marvel Superheroes $200
Roadblasters $160
Fighting Vipers $175
Vs Golf $60
Cruisin World $600
Radikal Bikers $135
Terminator 2 $220
Area 51 $325
Terminator 2 $320
Armored Warriors (in a Korean candy cabinet) $350
Power Stone (monitor issues) $50
Radikal Bikers $190
Rampage World Tour $150
Radikal Bikers $110
NBA Showtime $250
Cruisin World (standup) $700
Hammerin Harry $90
Super Punch-out! (top monitor dull) $125
PlayChoice-10 (game select monitor dead) $90
Choplifter $100
Wyvern (in a weird cabinet from Holland) $90
Tournament Solitaire $50
Viper $100
Mechanized Attack $125
Cisco Heat $160
Marvel Superheroes ?

Cocktails
48-in-1 $1475
Centipede 250
Fire Escape? $150
Golden Tee $125
Vs Baseball (red tent) $125

Showcase
Marvel vs Capcom $250
Tekken 3 $200

Driving
Hyperdrive $525
Vapor TRX $750
Rush: The Rock (was working earlier) $200
Hyperdrive $525
Rush: The Rock (missing buttons but working) $275
Virtua Racing dual (no monitors) $1
Race Drivin (bad colors, otherwise worked) $80

Pins (yep, that's all)
Rocky and Bullwinkle $568
Road Show $1100
Funhouse $825
Maverick $750
Big Guns $500
ABC Monday Night Football $550
Pinbot (broken, nasty playfield) $225
Slugfest $900
Flip-a-Ball (bingo) $50
Cyclone $850

Dead Row
Frogger (monitor issues) $50
Blitz 2000 Gold (dead monitor) $110
NBA Hangtime $40
Turbo Force $1
Area 51? $5
Big Buck Hunter $100
Millipede $50
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (water damage) $1
Tri Sports $2
Neo-Geo 4-slot (deal of the day, had $100 worth of games in it) $5
Wizard of Wor PASS
Galaxian $35
Kung Fu Master PASS
Ms Pac-Man (mostly gutted) $5
Vs The Goonies $10
Super Chase PASS
(empty Nintendo cabinet) $5
Neo-Geo 2-slot $10
Bad Dudes $10
Galaxian $40
(empty Nintendo cabinet) PASS
Jungle Hunt PASS
Maximum Force $1
Street Fighter II CE PASS
Surf Planet $10
Pole Position $1
Safari (EM) $5?
Arabian (bad board, cabinet in great shape) $80
Team Quarterback PASS

-Chris

[bryfree]

Thanks for posting this. I was curious what they had there, but I
didn't want to drive 2.5 hours each way. I've never been to one of
these auctions and I figured I should learn more about what things are
worth before I go.

[prOk]

What things are 'worth' and 'auctions' have nothing in common :)

"bryfree" <bryanf...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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[timh...@gmail.com]

Wow, a lot of cheap/dead stuff. This must have been a Super Auctions
right?
Good way to get lots of parts. Just bring a sledge hammer with you!
Buy the junk $1 cabinets, strip, then smash and right into the
dumpster.

[cgba...@gmail.com]

I was tempted to bid on the Power Stone with a blurry monitor, just to
rip the Naomi out and dump the rest. It went for $50, you can't really
go wrong there. But yeah, Super Auctions seems to be where arcade
games go to die.

Chris

[bryfree]

How often do they have these auctions?

[majors]

On Jun 16, 10:30 pm, cgbar...@gmail.com wrote:

> Armored Warriors (in a Korean candy cabinet) $350

That was the candy you bought? Any pic's? They are few and far at
the auctions I hit, but still on the list of "to get". Congrats.

[cgba...@gmail.com]

Super Auctions does the Georgia one 2 or 3 times a year. They come
back October 20. Rushton Mill is a pretty cool place to check out,
even if you don't win anything.

I'm liking the candy so far; I spent hours dismantling the platform
the previous owner installed under the cabinet, but the end result is
that it looks much more authentic. I'll take some pics soon. The
cabinet is called "Crowin Case" and has a marquee that says "Neo-
Mechanism Video Game". Also, as with other Korean, Taiwanese, and Hong
Kong candies, there is a lot of wood used than in Japanese cabinets in
order to cut costs. But it has the same features you'd expect in all
candies, like standard cut control panels, easy-access monitor
adjustments, and a 29" rotatable monitor.

Who got that neat-looking Netherlands cabinet with the light-up
buttons and glittery black paint?

Chris