You've Got Grail! The Valuation Thread
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Re: Got grail?
Might as well ask, what does Espgaluda with everything but the box go for these days?
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Re: Got grail?
Asure wrote:Might as well ask, what does Espgaluda with everything but the box go for these days?
I've seen the last in yahoo ending for 414€
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Truth be told PCB stuff has been undervalued for years, and we've all known this.
If you really wanted a CAVE PCB back around at its release that badly, you would have paid the £1,500 (sometimes less) asking price.
Perhaps many of us expected the £250-£500 kind of prices to carry on, and over the years until recently they have been doing this, but I guess we all put off shelling hundreds on these games on the assumption that we could always pick it up later.
Well that was never going to happen, just so happens that it is now-ish that these games are getting the prices they are really worth.
NEW-----Not doing well at release---Years passed 'old'---WTF deal---Starting to be realistic-What its really worth
£1500 -> £1,000 --------------->£500------------->£250---->£500--------------->£1,000-£1,500+
These games shouldn't be worth £250-£500 They should be worth £1,000+ because they are the original components of a part of gaming history.
These are not copies of games printed off in many thousands, to be owned by and played by a handful of individuals each.
Each one of these games has been played by many many people in gaming centres, but were never intended to be owned by an individual. They are unique, they are special. It is therefore (and rightly so), that they should be very much sought after and valuable.
If you really wanted a CAVE PCB back around at its release that badly, you would have paid the £1,500 (sometimes less) asking price.
Perhaps many of us expected the £250-£500 kind of prices to carry on, and over the years until recently they have been doing this, but I guess we all put off shelling hundreds on these games on the assumption that we could always pick it up later.
Well that was never going to happen, just so happens that it is now-ish that these games are getting the prices they are really worth.
NEW-----Not doing well at release---Years passed 'old'---WTF deal---Starting to be realistic-What its really worth
£1500 -> £1,000 --------------->£500------------->£250---->£500--------------->£1,000-£1,500+
These games shouldn't be worth £250-£500 They should be worth £1,000+ because they are the original components of a part of gaming history.
These are not copies of games printed off in many thousands, to be owned by and played by a handful of individuals each.
Each one of these games has been played by many many people in gaming centres, but were never intended to be owned by an individual. They are unique, they are special. It is therefore (and rightly so), that they should be very much sought after and valuable.
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Re: Got grail?
Got a link to finished auction pls?Rocco wrote:Asure wrote:Might as well ask, what does Espgaluda with everything but the box go for these days?
I've seen the last in yahoo ending for 414€
I'm at a point where i don't want to sell off anything right now, because of this..bloodhokuto wrote:Truth be told PCB stuff has been undervalued for years, and we've all known this.
These games shouldn't be worth £250-£500 They should be worth £1,000+ because they are the original components of a part of gaming history.
These are not copies of games printed off in many thousands, to be owned by and played by a handful of individuals each.
Each one of these games has been played by many many people in gaming centres, but were never intended to be owned by an individual. They are unique, they are special. It is therefore (and rightly so), that they should be very much sought after and valuable.
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Re: You've Got Grail
Nevermind
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Re: Got grail?
bloodhokuto wrote:Truth be told PCB stuff has been undervalued for years, and we've all known this.
If you really wanted a CAVE PCB back around at its release that badly, you would have paid the £1,500 (sometimes less) asking price.
Perhaps many of us expected the £250-£500 kind of prices to carry on, and over the years until recently they have been doing this, but I guess we all put off shelling hundreds on these games on the assumption that we could always pick it up later.
Well that was never going to happen, just so happens that it is now-ish that these games are getting the prices they are really worth.
NEW-----Not doing well at release---Years passed 'old'---WTF deal---Starting to be realistic-What its really worth
£1500 -> £1,000 --------------->£500------------->£250---->£500--------------->£1,000-£1,500+
These games shouldn't be worth £250-£500 They should be worth £1,000+ because they are the original components of a part of gaming history.
These are not copies of games printed off in many thousands, to be owned by and played by a handful of individuals each.
Each one of these games has been played by many many people in gaming centres, but were never intended to be owned by an individual. They are unique, they are special. It is therefore (and rightly so), that they should be very much sought after and valuable.
But not all games were worth £1,000+ at the time of release, well...maybe those Cave games that nowadays everyone seem to fap over, and some Sega boards from back then featuring cutting edge techology, such as Sega Scaler, Model 2 & 3 etc.,
but I have seen old catalogs distributed by importers to arcade ops and most games were worth only a few hundreds at the time of release, cps1 & 2, neogeo, Taito F-3, Data East boards, Technos, Kaneko, Toaplan etc
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Re: Got grail?
Yeah, at it's height even SF II boards were pretty cheap.copados33 wrote:
But not all games were worth £1,000+ at the time of release, well...maybe those Cave games that nowadays everyone seem to fap over, and some Sega boards from back then featuring cutting edge techology, such as Sega Scaler, Model 2 & 3 etc.,
but I have seen old catalogs distributed by importers to arcade ops and most games were worth only a few hundreds at the time of release, cps1 & 2, neogeo, Taito F-3, Data East boards, Technos, Kaneko, Toaplan etc
I was having a laugh, of course but I can't stay in character very long.
Most of the later CAVE games are absolute ****, especially those starting with a Dodon, only reason they are so pricey is because no self respecting game centre wanted to buy those turds, so there is only 10 copies of each in existence.
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Re: You've Got Grail
I remember Mo telling me he paid £600 each for several SF2 pcbs close to release and £400 for boots. According to the Bank of England inflation calculator £600 in 1991 is £1161 in 2016 money.
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Re: You've Got Grail
There's been a few lengthy Grail sentences over the last couple of pages
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Re: You've Got Grail
Since it's hard to find any info:
How much is an original Donpachi PCB (Korea version) worth ? PCB & game are absolutely identical to the JP version. Thanks in advance .
How much is an original Donpachi PCB (Korea version) worth ? PCB & game are absolutely identical to the JP version. Thanks in advance .
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Re: You've Got Grail
In the 1st period of the year it was in the 300-400€ range.
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Re: You've Got Grail
dingsbums wrote:Since it's hard to find any info:
How much is an original Donpachi PCB (Korea version) worth ? PCB & game are absolutely identical to the JP version. Thanks in advance .
Wanna sell it?
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Re: You've Got Grail
...with broken test switch.markedkiller78 wrote: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/332053277465
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Re: You've Got Grail
Dodonpachi = Donpachi x 2 / & 2more letters/ >higher grail
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Re: You've Got Grail
Hi! Can you help me with the value of these pcbs please:
Air buster
Zero wing
gigandes
acrobat mission
1942
Air duel
Super space invaders
Space invaders DX
Hacha mecha fighter
Air buster
Zero wing
gigandes
acrobat mission
1942
Air duel
Super space invaders
Space invaders DX
Hacha mecha fighter
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Re: You've Got Grail
Naomi 1
Net Dimm 512mb
Capcom I/O
Sega I/O
Net Dimm 512mb
Capcom I/O
Sega I/O
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Re: You've Got Grail
Burn free MS8-26 monitor?
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Re: You've Got Grail
Around £150 - £175
HTH
Cheers,
Ralph.
HTH
Cheers,
Ralph.
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Re: You've Got Grail
Thanks Ralph I'll be listing it soon.AeroCityMayor wrote:Around £150 - £175
HTH
Cheers,
Ralph.