No, no, no.  Get Pop 'n Fever.

THEN I'll never go back to GW$.

hey kevin we can party like rock stars with the GF/DM XDDDD

Yes! Thanks, Bill, for saving us from the tyranny of Gameworks. The techs there are incompetent (read: DM is already broken, after being there for 4 days), and they're also pretty mean, too. As soon as Acme gets GFDM, there's no way I'm ever going back to GW.

DM and GF kits are on the way.  Still no luck with PopN but still working at it.

BM3 a possibility if cheap.  But BM3 is not doing crap, but neither was 2DX for that matter.  But still worth looking at if something comes along on the cheap.

Agreed with Davyn.  Pop 'n is generally good at keeping songs.

nooo go for the fever!

guilty gear!

Now that Gameworks has PnM14, I think it'll be great to have Pop'n 8.  I don't believe that licenses carry over to the new mixes, so we'll have the best of both worlds.

Also, If I could ever locate a BMIII the final kit, would you be interested in it Bill?

get alpha 3

omfg nice. and i'm going there today too. thanks bill  

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thanks bill

DID THE ITG2 machine sell? if so how much? was it even there

Oooh, DM7th...

Bill, I'm not sure if you've already purchased the DM 10th kit, but some guy on BEMANISTYLE is selling a kit with session hub.  I don't know much about the going rate of these kits, but heres a link to it if you wan tot check it out.

http://www.bemanistyle.com/forum/f48/fs-drummania-7th-10th-arcade-13544/

Also, I believe Pop'n 14 kits are pretty common right now in Japan...

http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f59616247

The new Pop'n 15 Adventure uses new hardware, so all these arcades are dumping off the viper hardware.  I'll try and look around for a cheap kit.  Might be able to find some thing for like 3-4 grand.

GF11? I'd like to get into that Guiter Freak stuff. I hope you take out most of the ghey gamez. <3 masterman vending

Cool to see new Bemani stuff otw for ACME - thanks Bill for always doing your best to keep the Bemani fans up here in the area happy.  Just curious - so the DM8 that's currently at ACME is going to be replaced by a new DM10 and a GF11 machine added  (to be like setup at Narrows) ?   Any idea when we'll see the new machines in place?  

thanks again.

Hmm, interesting, I'd completely forgotten about this.
Well, it will be nice to have the option of going to ACME for GF11/DM10, that's for sure =D  I have to say I agree with Laura in that having a different GF/DM mix between ACME and Narrows would be cool/allow for more musical variety (and GF6/DM5 is an excellent complement to GF11/DM10 I feel), but then I've proclaimed that since forever.  In either case I wouldn't complain.
Well Bill, it's a wonderful surprise!  Much thanks.

The popn5 went for $1250 I believe (plus 10% buyers fee, plus tax). The Popn3 was with a large lot with three pins that went for just under 8k before all the fees. It's very likely that the person bidding has zero interest in the popn, however, this was a phone bidder so we'll never know for sure :(

How much was the Pop'n? I couldn't see it going for too much.  I also thought Illusionz once had a Pop'n Music 3 machine as well.  This is good news.

Ah, Super Session. Gotta love playing VITALIZE! over and over and over and over and over and over again!

Seriously, that song is so fun!

It was tounge-in-cheek to begin with, so no use in further fanning the flames, no pun intended.

The auctions were there and gone in under a minute for each machine. Stuff went pretty damn quickly. Of course, the stuff I wanted, Bill wanted as well, and you can see how that turned out. :) Better him than me for you guys though, because this would have gone directly into my house for SUPER SESSION. I do still want a popn' though. Ah well, some day!

pop'n for the win.

I went to the auction at about 2, after finding out about it through Seattle Weekly.

It was cool seeing all the old machines again, even if I didn't get anything.

Thanks, Bill, for all you do for the PNW community. It's really great to have such machines in great condition all the time.

also @matt
Nice catching the edit. I didn't want to start any more drama, and realized that you probably didn't want to with your comment either.

I figured that it'd be pretty cheap-- almost glad that I didn't end up with it given the condition you described, though. In either case, it's neat that you and Bill got to go to the auction.


As a sidenote, even if the machines weren't upgraded at ALL, having all of the old machines would be awesome in and of itself... I don't know about the rest of the players in the area, but I think that Pop'n 5 and GF/DM 6/5 are actually a lot of fun.

Which went for damn near free, btw. (Granted, it had a busted marquee with no artwork, which had been forcibly torn from the cabinet, might not even turn on and the actual stage was with another lot in the kitchen with some other junk that you would have to get along with it)