Can confirm, we bought one when they were new. The hard drive went bad after about a year, no biggie, namco sent us an advance replacement. Then a while later the Mobo went bad. The game security ties the software to the hardware, so it's not as simple as replacing the motherboard. Namco wanted $700 to even look at it, I'm not the numbers guy but I don't think the game had even made that in the few years it was on route. It sat in back for a while, and I'm pretty sure we eventually junked it. also the really nice kit stickers they sent with it looked like hell after a few moves.