Value of a 1989 TMNT Arcade Machine

[Ninja Turtles 25 Years]

Originally Posted by Archon_Turtle

but that's what I'm saying. Intelligent collectors would never pay that much for a game; unless it was something exceptionally rare. Just because someone is selling something for $2500, doesn't mean anyone is buying it.

Probably. There's a suck born every minute.

[jasonorme666]

To be fair its one of the better condition US cabinets i've seen.
I still think the price is abit much.

I got my mint condition 4 player Hero Cabinet for £450 ($730), that was about 10 years ago.

[I Crave Pizza No More]

Originally Posted by discordiatookie

Just outta curiosity, do you get a special 'key' or pass code or something to play the games for free (y'know, being the owner) or do you have to pay? Because if you have to pay, that is one frickin' amazing piggy bank!

I simply open the front door on the machine and flip the switch that the quarter would normally flip. You can do that a bunch of times, or to have some more fun, you can get a heap of quarters and blast through the game. When you're done, you can simply remove the quarters.

Originally Posted by Ninja Turtles 25 Years

Seriously cabinet or not, why do people spend terrific money just to get only 1 game? I myself is interested in investing in arcade games and pinball games from my childhood I enjoyed every Wednesday when I went with my dad to the bowling alley. But when I see prices like the ones I've seen on eBay, I say forget it. Where did you guys who brought it for like $200 - $700 buy it; a brick and morter place?

I bought mine sometime around 1999 for $400. The sticker on one side is pretty beat and I've been looking for a replacement. Anyone who knows where to get replacement decals for the control panel or the sides of the cabinet--PLEASE PM me.

As for the 1 game thing, I agree. I have some other PCBs like TMNT in Time, the Simpsons, and Wrestlefest that I switch out, but I think in the future I'm just going to modify a cabinet that has a hard drive full of emulators in it. That way, I can play thousands of games from the same cabinet.