Re: Opinions on bidding on a Hook
- From: goatdan <loosen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:44:29 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 11, 12:37 pm, Retropins <clpeff...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Everybody,
I love resurrecting a project machine but am just not sure on this
Hook that is up for auction. It is missing boards, the display, the
skull, coindoor, translite. It looks like it is also missing the lamp
sockets on the right side of the playfield plastics. Can you all see
anything else missing?
If I decide to bid, I want to have a clear idea of what I'm getting
myself into. Is there supposed to be a ramp under the playfield to
carry the ball (like on DE Star Trek) to another position?
It is probably pretty difficult to find the skull isn't it?
I find myself so tempted when a game is cheap and needs work.... Chris
(DH) took one look and laughed, thinking that I wasn't serious.
Although I wasn't planning to buy any games before xmas (4 kids) I am
tempted, so advice is appreciated or feel free to try to talk some
common sense into me.
Anyway, item number is 110203523416 and below is the link.
http://cgi.ebay.com/DATA-EAST-HOOK-PROJECT-PINBALL-MACHINE-WITH-TOPPE...
Thanks,
Laura
Laura,
What do you want to do with it? If you want an easy project that you
can fix up and start playing pretty quickly, avoid this one at all
costs.
If you want a project that you can do a little here and there and
eventually get a working game, go for it.
The skull will be hard to get. The boardset is missing the power
supply (Rottendog can replace for about $70), the MPU and something
else -- driver board maybe? I forget. The mini-DMD will run
somewhere between $200-350 I believe. The translite will be a little
tough to get. The skull will be tough to get.
Also, whenever I see a game like this, I wonder why it got so much
parted out of it if it was working to begin with. Some games (Judge
Dredd comes to mind) I'm not as concerned about because operators
pulled them early since they weren't making a ton of money and used
the parts to replace parts on money making machines. In Hook's case,
while stuff does switch over, I'm not certain that it would have been
a candidate to have that much missing, especially the translite which
tells me that this was a parts machine for another Hook.
What would I do -- Personally, for $100 I'd definitely buy it but I
wouldn't expect to ever get it working again. I'd switch over some
common parts from another game that I have from that era and see if I
get lucky, and if not I'd use it for parts for the next Hook that I
find. You can get a Hook for around $800-$1000 working usually, so
factor that in (the boardset alone w/ DMD would probably cost $600-
$800)
In my opinion, Hook is actually quite a fun game. The big circular
ramp thing in the middle takes up a lot of real estate to not really
do much and kind of obscures the top part of the playfield, but other
than that I found the game to be really fun. There was one on
location around here just last year that I would play.
.
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