Cosmos
Bally, 1969
Sea Ray
Bally, 1971
Stage Coach
Chicago Coin, 1968
Zip-A-Doo
Bally, 1970Quoted from NPO:$14K for a Tattoo Assassins......holy cow...
What a terrible game going for insane money.
"Great buy, cool game." xD.....
I sold a game to one of the programmers on it. He was telling me what a horrible experience it was to work on it. But He though none made it out. So it has to be unique.
Quoted from Gotemwill:What’s the backstory on captain being selected to handle the auction?
Probably nothing more than they are the most well known arcade auction house out in Cali and west coast
Quoted from flynnibus:Probably nothing more than they are the most well known arcade auction house out in Cali and west coast
That and I am sure john bought a ton of games from their auction over the years.
People seem to covet and want to collect them in their collections.
Quoted from Mrbill:I sold a game to one of the programmers on it. He was telling me what a horrible experience it was to work on it. But He though none made it out. So it has to be unique.
Quoted from Mrbill:I sold a game to one of the programmers on it. He was telling me what a horrible experience it was to work on it. But He though none made it out. So it has to be unique.
It's one of these crap games that became collectibles because they sucked so much when they were made that no one bought them.
Quoted from ForceFlow:I think the trick is also a considerable amount of advertising.
Ya think? 
This is why when people kept questioning using an auction company I just laughed.
Imagine if you are Mark and Doug from Replay right now. They had FAR better condition games and could have played up name dropping too.. and they struggled for WEEKS to sell their stuff and were basically just getting typical hobbyist pricing. Just 8 months ago! Now MoP sells their mash up collection... get coverage in NYT, on National Television, get picked up EVERYWHERE across the country... and are selling for 3-5x market prices.
Tell me again how much of a ripoff the auction is again?
They were buying facebook ads, pushing to media at multiple tiers, spun the great story... and now they are raking it in on days 1 and 2.
Quoted from ForceFlow:Interesting...never heard of it before.
Links for the curious:
https://bid.captainsauctionwarehouse.com/m/lot-details/index/catalog/80/lot/20486
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/picked-up-atari-proto-cyberstorm.480234/Atari's response to street fighter II, perhaps?
Thats what I heard. It did horrible on test and SFII was slowing down. At least its looks interesting. I am not a SF fan. So I asked around before I sold it to john. I figured it was a good home.. He lost money on that one, But then he got $5800 out of the boulderdash I sold him so that more and make up for it. Luckily, I have 3 more exidy max flex systems in my collection. At one point I had 5, So I passed 2 along to other museums.
Quoted from LTG:The huge gyroscope looking thing you ride in ? If so, agreed.
LTG : )
Yep, the ultimate arcade machine ever built. The MGM in Las Vegas had 2 side by side when casinos still had the biggest arcades in the world.
I like the work Chris, the Captain does with the spirt league of orange county.
He's supported them for a long time.
https://spiritleague.org/captains-auction-warehouse-adopts-spirit-league/
Quoted from Oneangrymo:Are they auctioning that one circus pinball machine ? The one that is like only two in the world?
Since they don't have it. I doubt it.
LTG : )
Quoted from LTG:Since they don't have it. I doubt it.
LTG : )
Is there a PTC available? 
Quoted from Bmanpin:Is there a PTC available?
No idea. Probably no EFL either.
I have about $20, so I'm ready just in case.
LTG : )
Quoted from Mrbill:metal maniax was also a steal.
Logic issue on one side, the other side dead.
Not a steal if you never get it going.
LTG : )
$1700 for Derby Club seems like a steal.... Maybe? Then again it takes up a huge amount of space fully setup.
Quoted from LTG:Since they don't have it. I doubt it.
LTG : )
Yes I thought the same thing. Hall of fame in Vegas owns a sweet one. Might be the one thought of.
730B7164-2224-4D36-A9CE-18F9DD347C4B (resized).jpegQuoted from Azmodeus:Yes I thought the same thing. Hall of fame in Vegas owns a sweet one. Might be the one thought of.
Yeah I had the wrong place. Thats the one, looks awesome, wish it was mass produced.
Ok, everybody log off and go to sleep, nothing more to see tonight! Spread the word. Are they tired at the auction?
Quoted from MtnFrost:Are they tired at the auction?
No. Everybody is pumped up for the pins after the break.
LTG : )
Quoted from jay:Anyone know when the Polybius comes up? I didn't see any of the MOP basement games in the catalog.
None of the parts or games in storage are in this auction.
Quoted from Bmanpin:Is there a PTC available?
Crap yes. Lot 1051. Quick somebody send me $50K !
LTG : )
Ok here we go.. first one is Star Wars trilogy with a huge chip on the front left of the cabinet, some black marker can take care of that.
Tod Tuckey mentioned he thinks there are investors buying some of these games for retro arcade businesses.
Quoted from cait001:Tod Tuckey mentioned he thinks there are investors buying some of these games for retro arcade businesses.
I've heard a certain Robert M. is in
Quoted from MtnFrost:Are they taking a dinner break? Camera set up cannot take that long?
Didn’t you know? They’re using the Pony Express to personally deliver each frame for the stream.
Wonder if this auction drives a deflation from People looking to make a huge exit in mass and realizing without the hype, fomo auction experience dont get the $ they thought they could.
Quoted from MtnFrost:Yeah, for a moment I forgot what a shit show this has been. From many aspects.
I think they're going to be able to live with it on their end. 
Quoted from seenev:I think they're going to be able to live with it on their end.
I don't really care about their end, nobody here does.
Are they really going to try to plow through 200 more lots tonight? That's going to be a really late night for the east coast.
Quoted from ForceFlow:Are they really going to try to plow through 200 more lots tonight? That's going to be a really late night for the east coast.
I was thinking the same, which is why I was wondering the time per lot has been today. Many people will be sleeping in tomorrow.
Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:Wow 180 more lots, amazing. At this pace? See you all at 5am
thats when the getting is good!
Quoted from MtnFrost:I was thinking the same, which is why I was wondering the time per lot has been today. Many people will be sleeping in tomorrow.
From what I've seen, If the price is below $2000, 5-10 minutes. If it's above 2000, 2-4 minutes. 
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