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I’m working order? Maybe as much as 10-12k. The emergence of barcodes has inflated the price of games like this.

A DoT environmental is widely considered an arcade grail and is rare. It’s extremely sought after and the logistics of the size of the cabinet resulted in lots of them being trashed over the year or chopped up.

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Confused until I realized "barcodes" was probably an autocorrect of "barcodes".

Autocorrect got you too. Barcades.

Now I don't know whether that's a sly joke, or I'm too dumb to spot the difference, or simply if autocorrect bested you in that joust?

Haha I'm sure you mean "barcades", but that was amusing.

Confused that you wrote barcodes again (autocorrect? hah!) - i guess it was meant to read "barcades"?

Argh. I undid the first auto-correct from "barcafes" and it still got me!

I feel better though!

I really wonder if the market will soon be (or already is) flooded with similar cabinets but in bad condition. Barcades put a lot of stress on the machines -- high playtime, by adults with more strength than children, who are drinking, on machines that are often decades beyond their designed service life. And they don't have high enough maintenance budgets to keep them in good condition, or often in working condition at all.

Or perhaps they just get thrown out when the barcade replaces the machines or goes out of business.

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