New York, NY
Quoted from Frax:There's a chump born every day, and those chumps will buy it just because it's ERMAGERD NIB. They don't care that half the game is rusted or a 300 buck board is covered in acid (and those DE boards are almost impossible to repair after acid damage thanks to their stupid way of handling the grounding traces around the battery area)...they have enough money to just buy whatever they need, and to make it appear out of thin air if it's seemingly unobtanium.
OP probably realizes that the thing is going to have issues and may not want to tackle that much of a problem...if that's the case, there's no reason to fault him for it...I certainly wouldn't want to either, especially not for Playboy! NIB Time Machine....that might be a different story....
In almost 20 years in this hobby I've NEVER heard an old NIB vault game horror story. JOhn's Jukes was selling 20-30 year old NIB Black Knights for years and they were always gorgeous. Boards were always fine. Even rubbers looked beautiful.
It makes for nice copy but if you buy an ancient NIB game, you are going to get a beautiful game despite what the seers of doom may predict. Because the game has been sitting in a box in storage. The OP probably realizes the game is worth more in the box to the right person than it would be opening it.
Quoted from NeilMcRae:would it have batteries in it? they are bound to be leaking acid all over it...
The absolute worst case scenarios here - acid on a board or rubber that needs replacing (GASP!) are complete non-issues for a buyer of a novelty like this. Boards are plentiful, reproduced, plentiful, and relatively cheap. Regardless, seen plenty of photos of 20-30-year old games being unboxed and the batteries are ALWAYS fine. Who know? Maybe they made 'em better back then.
