aaronmjr

That's a great story! And a really uncommon sign, you don't see them often that's for sure. Have any pictures of the back? Thanks for sharing!

I've heard of the stands alone going for $1000. I sold a kiosk with no stand and no monitor for around (edit) $950 this time last year. Those Zenith monitors are notorious for not working and being hard to repair. A kiosk in good shape, with the stand and a good functioning Zenith monitor should approach $3k. Or if you have the M81C which is even less common with a bigger screen (consumer JVC) It could eclipse $3k.

Thanks! Gotta keep your eyes peeled, I'll let you know if I hear of anything!

I have fun playing the games, but almost instantaneously decided that collecting for it wasn't for me. I did however want to play it via RGB on original hardware. So at one point in time arcadeworks offered the OMEGA as a kit which essentially came with the case, power supply and controller ports. I bought an MV1C single slot MVS board and threw it in, no other mods. It's served me well with a multicart. It will probably be blasphemy to people in this thread but I actually am not a huge fan of the Neo Geo Arcade Stick. I bought this adapter to use Sega Genesis controllers about a year later and almost exclusively play like that now!

Cool idea for a club! I thought I'd share the story on how I picked up three NEC XM29 presentation monitors with a friend a while back. If you aren't familiar, the XM29 is a 29" RGB CRT that would have been used in conference rooms, or video wall displays among other things. What makes them unique and desirable is that most RGB capable CRTs have a 20" or smaller screen size, while the XM29 is much larger (27" viewable). But wait, there's more. Similar to a PVM-20L5, the XM29 is actually a Multisync monitor meaning it can handle resolutions of 480p and above as well making it an excellent choice for VGA sources like the Dreamcast, or playing PS2 games in progressive mode. All sources look fantastic, and 240p games display correctly complete with scanlines. They also have a fairly high "TV Line" (or TVL) count which also lends itself to a sharper and better looking picture. Some people say they have 600TVL, some people say they have 800TVL. The spec sheet is a little ambiguous with it's wording, but I believe it to be 600TVL. Anyways! Through a series of Google searches back in 2016, I found an artist who had used XM29s in a gallery display years prior and with a little digging I found his contact information. I emailed him and eventually we talked on the phone about him selling me the monitors. We made a deal, and a friend and I were going to drive from Minneapolis, MN all the way to Michigan to pickup three XM29s for $50/each. My friend wanted to hit every game store we could on the way there and back, so we each had something to be excited about! I believe he bought somewhere around 50 games during our trip, and was disappointed that he didn't find more . A winter storm had plagued most of our trip, and we were in an early 2000s Chevy Impala with old tires and bad wipers. Also, my friend is like 6'2 and his driver's seat was broken and stuck in the position he drives in.. I'm 5'10 so this created a little extra stress while driving in white-out conditions in someone else's car. But in any case, lots of great memories were made, we visited TONS of stores and encountered interesting people and situations the entire way there and back. I could go into more detail about some of the shenanigans we got into, but I'll let it at this for now! Here are some pictures of our adventure. First pic is with the seller, very nice guy.

Back in October of 2017 I found an ad on craigslist for a Funcoland sign. I had seen these signs before, but as far as game related signage goes, they're really uncommon and don't come up for sale very often. As far as I understand, there are two versions of the neon signs, one that is around 30" long, and the one I have which is around 46" long. Anyways, I contacted the seller and she agreed to meet. Her name was Holly, and she worked in the Funcoland warehouse which was located in Eagan MN (Funcoland was founded and based in MN). When Funcoland was in the process of being acquired by Gamestop and operations moved to Texas, her manager at the time said she could keep this particular sign. It was new, and was never actually hung in a Funcoland store. Holly had plans of putting together a gameroom one day and hanging the sign, but never got around to it. She said she was open to offers, so while I was there I made her an offer and we had a deal! I think it's probably my favorite display piece, and the one that I would be the most reluctant to sell. Here are some pics of when I picked it up, and where it ended up in my room.

First topic! I was told by a friend that there was a derelict World of Nintendo (WON) display case sitting in the back of a local store. I was acquaintances with the store owner, so I hit him up and struck a deal! It was pretty beat up, and missing some pieces but I was thrilled. I went to work carefully taking it apart, and cleaning it. Looking pretty good, but no lights, shelves, and missing the marquee! A month or so later I made a deal with a friend and got my hands on an original marquee! I picked up a fluorescent light fixture that was the same size as the original and wired that up. I picked up some brackets for the glass shelves, installed everything and it was more or less finished, so I loaded it with crap! Yes, there are non-Nintendo items inside as I don't have the largest collection. And one more after I decorated the top with some more display items.

Another basement player here. I need to find a picture to show you guys, it was so cool. We had a pool table downstairs, and on one side of it against a wall was a set of dark, nearly black built-in cabinets a little over waist high. One of the cabinets off to the side had an outlet inside of it, so we had an old Sony Trinitron with RF only inside, and a shelf above it with our NES and SNES inside along with all of our games. So we plopped our butts down next to the pool table, opened up the cabinet and played tons of games. Lots of great memories playing new games right after a holiday, and wrapping up with a blanket and digging into a rental for the weekend!

Wouldn't the true video game sage look more like this?

Very cool! There's a rubber mat/rug that I think some of them had to put in front of it as well. They come up for sale from time to time!