Nothing out of the ordinary, really. Standard run of the mill auction with only a few oddities. Lots of PacMan/Ms Pacs like always that go for rediculously high amounts ($800-1000) regardless of condition.
And of course you have the bootleg multi game cabs with classics that go for ungodly amounts. There was a cocktail table with 30 or so games like Sinistar, Pac, Dig dug, etc that went for over $1300. I honestly don't believe what these people are thinking. Do they not realize that it's just a hacked POS? Why not just go all out and mame a cab for a fraction of that.
I should just bring a junk PC running mame and set it on a coffee table with a sign that says "1400+ games!! R@R3" and watch the cash flow in.
There are also the Multicade cabs that go for similar high amounts. While these are official cabs and not boots, I still don't see why people feel the need to spend $1100+ on them.
There was a Star Wars ep 1 pod racer game (sit down) there. Very rare that you see a racing game that new at an auction. Went for $1325.
A Xmen vs Street Fighter conversion went for $275. It was convertered from a 4 player simpsons so it was a nice big cab. Nice shape too. Funny thing was that you could see Bart's hair where the cover up paint had flaked off. Probably would have been easy to convert back to a 4P simpsons and I'm willing to bet had nice side art underneath the paint.
Two identical Pokemon Catch machines (made by sammy). It's a huge cab about 7 feet tall and it's like a giant pachinko machine. You move a Pickachu thing back and forth to catch ping pong balls as they fall. Apparently it gives out prizes if you do well. Kind of a neat machine, I've never seen one before.
Oh there was this great Asteroids cab that had been converted to a Street Fighter II WW. Looked halarious as they didn't bother to cover up the side art from 'roids.
Some nice coctail tables. The best of which was a Q Bert in very nice shape. Went for about $450
3 or 4 space invaders tables ranging from the $40 dollar one that couldn't be plugged in because it "smoked" to the 350 one in perfect order.
A Donkey Kong that was in excellent shape went for about $450 as well.
There wasn't much for super nice stuff this time. It was a great auction if you were looking for a project cab though. Prices were on the low side for most things. Lots of potential in the cabs there.
That's all I can remember off the top of my head as far as interesting items. SGG might think of a few more and post em. He walked away with "two" cabs. Kind of a funny story so I'll let him tell it
