Neo Geo 6 slot MVS Craigslist find.
So Oldskool and I go to see this bad boy after finding it on Craigslist. We walk in and the cabinet looks great but the monitor looks like shit. We play with it a little bit to see if we can get it cleaned up but there is a big line though the top of the screen that we cant get fixed. With the cost of a monitor I was pretty close to saying I didn't want it. So I tell the guy I would buy it for the $375 he was asking but with the monitor issue it would cost me to much to fix it and I might as well just buy another Neo Geo. He says throw him an offer. I tellem to give me a idea where to start. He says, $300, no less. I pay the man and we are on our way. We get it home, out of my truck and take apart my Power Stone (it doesn't fit out the door in one piece) arcade to make room for the Neo Geo. We get the Power Stone outside and the Neo Geo on the dolly and try to take it up the first step by my front door. Ever seen one of those logging shows where they cut the tree and it falls the wrong way and they run for their lives? Well, that's what happened, TIMBER! It falls over on it's right side and slams on the ground shattering the glass covering the monitor. What's Oldskool do? He laughs while I just stand there in shock. I was just glad neither of us got hurt by the falling beast. We pick it back up and plug it in to see if it even works anymore. It works perfect (aside from the monitor issue mentioned before).
We get it in the house and set up. Not liking the way the monitor looked, we compared the monitor to the monitor in the Power Stone arcade I was now going to be getting rid of. Model numbers were an exact match! Olskool and I both get excited to see if we can do a monitor swap even though neither of us had messed with a monitor replacement before. We swap the monitors and bingo, now its great.
Games it came with:
Baseball Stars Professional
Top Players Golf
Fatal Fury
World Heros 2
Nightmare in the Dark
In the end a little extra scratching on the side and the front glass gone. Here it is.
