Must have been 10 years ago. Me and a buddy picked up 4 Candy cabs from Matsu over at the Shmups Forums. They were probably the first ones that were ever imported into San Jose. I remember them only costing $350 + shipping then. We struck out on getting an Egret II, so we ended up with on Astro City, one New Astro City, an Astro City 2, and a Windy City. Along the way, my buddy sold the others and I was left with a New Astro City. I ended up selling that when I needed some cash about 3 years back. Been kicking myself ever since.
Two days ago, I saw a 1-hour old ad on Craigslist listing a Astro City for $300 w/a dead monitor. I jumped on it. Took until the evening until the seller got back to me. But we were able to make arrangements to meet the next day. Decided to work from home on Thursday to make the transaction easier since he was only 30 minutes from my home in Manteca. When I got to his house, it was sitting in his foyer. She was a thing of beauty. Clean as a whistle. Only bad thing was the CP.
While I was at this guy's place, turns out he was quite the game connoisseur. He goes by lord_sega_ on Instagram. His collection was stunning and he let me take some pictures:
As fate would have it, I picked up a repro CP from @Derick2k and it arrived the same day! I had designs on using that CP to convert the Sega Die Hard arcade cabinet into a Candy Cab, but now I have a better purpose for it and can use this plain CP for that purpose anyway. Also, on Monday of this week, a friend I made in my arcade travels through Craigslist traded my CPS3 case/cage for his dead CPS3 board. That came complete with enough SIMM's to play 3rd Strike!
Today, I have been taking apart the Astro City. The fuse is definitely blown on it. I am hoping that is the only problem. If so, I really struck gold. Been really lucky in my arcade travels thus far. Made some friends along the way.
Two days ago, I saw a 1-hour old ad on Craigslist listing a Astro City for $300 w/a dead monitor. I jumped on it. Took until the evening until the seller got back to me. But we were able to make arrangements to meet the next day. Decided to work from home on Thursday to make the transaction easier since he was only 30 minutes from my home in Manteca. When I got to his house, it was sitting in his foyer. She was a thing of beauty. Clean as a whistle. Only bad thing was the CP.
While I was at this guy's place, turns out he was quite the game connoisseur. He goes by lord_sega_ on Instagram. His collection was stunning and he let me take some pictures:
As fate would have it, I picked up a repro CP from @Derick2k and it arrived the same day! I had designs on using that CP to convert the Sega Die Hard arcade cabinet into a Candy Cab, but now I have a better purpose for it and can use this plain CP for that purpose anyway. Also, on Monday of this week, a friend I made in my arcade travels through Craigslist traded my CPS3 case/cage for his dead CPS3 board. That came complete with enough SIMM's to play 3rd Strike!
Today, I have been taking apart the Astro City. The fuse is definitely blown on it. I am hoping that is the only problem. If so, I really struck gold. Been really lucky in my arcade travels thus far. Made some friends along the way.
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