Post by VectorX on Apr 12, 2012 19:54:36 GMT -5
Ok, so I'm on an e-mailing local gaming group list, which culminates in an annual gaming expo (featuring hundreds of games) that I've gone to several times over the years (the last one was in November, which was its 10 year anniversary actually). People offer to buy, sell, and even transport games from various locations if they're making a run somewhere all the time.
I tell you, it sucks not having the money, nor the space when you get this in an e-mail:
Centuri Challenger - white screen when plugged in. missing monitor plexi but otherwise game is complete. $100
First off, for those that don't know, Challenger was a fairly popular (but not huge) game that kind of combined Space Invaders with Asteroids: it was a bottom of the screen shooter...well, unless you activated Warp, which shot you to the top of the screen. And it was like Asteroids since you shot up a bunch of rings that floated around, which they would break into little ones. Other stuff went on too, and you can read more about it on a wiki page I did for it here if you wish, which also has a link at the end to a review I did for it, giving it a 9 out of 10. It's one of the very few arcade games I want to own eventually. With Atari having the Centuri license, they were going to come out with a home version of it, but I don't know how much of it was completed when the video game crash killed pretty much everything. Hopefully a ROM will turn up for it one day...
Anyway...geez, $100 I don't have to spare, although that wouldn't matter anyway since I don't have the room for it right now. If I had an extra few hundred I would take that and put it in a storage unit. I think that taking it and having it fixed would still be a good deal, since at times you hear of people occasionally finding out about huge warehouses full of games that the owners sell for $150 each no matter what the condition. However, most of the time machines cost a few hundred each, running up to $1200-1500 each when you're dealing with businesses that restore machines. So $100 plus a few hundred to get it fixed (however much it would cost) isn't squat, if you ask me.
Plus, how DARE HE get rid of a Challenger!!
I tell you, it sucks not having the money, nor the space when you get this in an e-mail:
Centuri Challenger - white screen when plugged in. missing monitor plexi but otherwise game is complete. $100
First off, for those that don't know, Challenger was a fairly popular (but not huge) game that kind of combined Space Invaders with Asteroids: it was a bottom of the screen shooter...well, unless you activated Warp, which shot you to the top of the screen. And it was like Asteroids since you shot up a bunch of rings that floated around, which they would break into little ones. Other stuff went on too, and you can read more about it on a wiki page I did for it here if you wish, which also has a link at the end to a review I did for it, giving it a 9 out of 10. It's one of the very few arcade games I want to own eventually. With Atari having the Centuri license, they were going to come out with a home version of it, but I don't know how much of it was completed when the video game crash killed pretty much everything. Hopefully a ROM will turn up for it one day...
Anyway...geez, $100 I don't have to spare, although that wouldn't matter anyway since I don't have the room for it right now. If I had an extra few hundred I would take that and put it in a storage unit. I think that taking it and having it fixed would still be a good deal, since at times you hear of people occasionally finding out about huge warehouses full of games that the owners sell for $150 each no matter what the condition. However, most of the time machines cost a few hundred each, running up to $1200-1500 each when you're dealing with businesses that restore machines. So $100 plus a few hundred to get it fixed (however much it would cost) isn't squat, if you ask me.
Plus, how DARE HE get rid of a Challenger!!