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Brothers and Sisters,
Sold my business last year called Wild Bill's Arcade Amusements. I put ads in local papers asking to pick up old school arcade games, and any coin-operated equipment. Half the time the machines did not work and I got the machines for free. I never learned how to fix the games. It's a lot like the show Pawn Stars, the pawn shop people may not know how much something is worth, but they do know how to pick up the phone to have an expert stop by. I found a reasonable fix it place, told them what I wanted, through trial and error I persivered. So I loaded the arcade games and at the end of the year, sell them all for a killer profit. Super chexx hockey game USA vs USSR was the best deal, I bought that from a neighbor for $100.00, and flipped it for nine hundred dollers, was working perfect when I bought it. The guy who bought it was interviewed in the local paper as a video game seller and the picture is of him playing the game I sold him. I bought a Galaga for fifty bucks and it cost two hundred to fix, sold for one thousand dollars. I used to have about thirty games at one time, most of you may not know this, but in the south there are alot of Washateria's. Every place has a Ms. Pac-man upright arcade game installed, easyist game to play and most popular with the ladies, and the most collectable. On average I would spend 250 to make 750. Until the recession, and the writing on the wall also included a new board coming out that had 49 games in one game cabinet. That devalued all games across the board, pinball machines are still popular, but only one company exists today called Stern Inc. I had owned a vending company called Gumballs & Stuff, so alot of times I could add video games to locations I already had, place the machines until they payed for themselves then brought them home. Tempest was a rare game to play, my first game I bought on Ebay was Spy Hunter. Bought and sold about twenty Ms. Pac-mans, Pac-man worth half as much? Galaga is very collectable, as is Tapper, Gyruss,1943, Burgertime, Pengo,Centipede had great art work. My ex-wife loved Tetris, & Pole Position, my favorite game was Elevator Action. Pinballs are more fun, I like to play The Black Knight, Elvira, Junkyard,The Addams Family,Attack from Mars, South Park,Cirqus Voltaire, Pinbot, Medievil Madness, Cactus Canyon, Twilight Zone. Now I focus my attention on my little boy Apollo. My Dad did the accounting for the developer of the space flights in the 70's and 80's, so he got large original prints of the old Apollo mission's, that was one of many reason's how I chose my son's name.
