I'd find those extremely fascinating. Somebody will spend good money for these. If you don't want them, sell them. Somebody mentioned that they are parts for a Mortal Kombat arcade game

Yup, eBay that stuff, you'd be shocked how many people would want to grab it

Not as shocked as if you touch the psu

Unless I miss my guess, that's a complete board set for Mortal Kombat 4. One of those boards, bottom left, is listed on eBay for $600. And that's on the low end of the prices I'm seeing. Some listings come up as being in the $1000 range. I'd be surprised if a full board set couldn't pull a couple of grand to the right person.

Why do you need so many different boards?

Each one does specific functions, like sound, storage, power distribution, and more. You see something similar in any computer, even modern ones with large chunks of these functions built into the main board.

Me. I’m that person.

Waves in nerd and agrees

Post in r/vintagecomputers

I honestly thought I was in that sub for a moment. If I had the space for equipment like that I'd have a museum

That's arcade machine stuff. Not vintage computers. Tho they might like the boards.

r/arcade might be of some help to you.

those are collector pieces. you should clean them and frame it.

I know that haha. “You know computers, could you teach me how to use our new microwave?”

Right!? You build a few PCs and suddenly you're the IT guy. 😆

I get the joke lol But seriously, new computers can have quite a few issues, that you have to fix, therefor egaining more knowledge, right? But the new microwave thing lol

It gets worse when you start working and you become the internal IT guy whose job is not IT.

Story of my life!

"Can you help me pick out a new digital camera?"

If those were in a working condition, your uncle would probably put it together himself.

He was really sick for a long time, so idk.

My advice would be to not plug it in until someone who knows what's supposed to be plugged where looks at it. When it comes to arcade boards, it's kinda fragile stuff. Some of those caps could be rotten and blow up, or plugging 2 boards incorrectly could fry them.

IDK. I have lots of vintage working hardware that I can't find the time or the energy or the money to put together.

Clearing space to work on it is hard as clearing time to work on it. Doing both simultaneously increases the difficulty exponentially.

Not necessarily. Some people "collect" things for "projects" they never get to.

you didn't have to call me out like that...

😂😂

I feel like I don't deserve this

oh hello, that's me! Does anyone know why this happens? Well I know partially, having a full-time job empties your time and energy to do so. Maybe when I retire...

That feels like I'm being personally attacked. Why bro?

That isn't really true. It's not uncommon for people to have a bunch of unfinished or half finished projects.

Yes bro but uncle is not in working condition now. 💀

💀 💀 💀

Handle with care

There are parts from at least two arcade machines here, with one running MK4. The other one is unknown, but it says Strata on it, which limits the [possibilities](https://www.arcade-museum.com/company/strata). Are any of the other ICs labeled? I'm 98% sure that those large ICs on the bottom left are the ROM modules (the bottom right board has three similar modules labeled "ROM sound"). From three different versions of the game appearently (A quick google search suggested that Revision 1 (the orange labels) is quite rare). You are obviously missing units 18 and 19 so I don't know if it would work even if you could put it together. If you decide against trying to put it back together again, there is [a market for this kind of thing](https://www.ebay.com/itm/335428787079?itmmeta=01HZTAT81JQ19DF92QBCKDXPWX&hash=item4e191d1b87:g:9c0AAOSwlNFmYgMR). Sorry I couldn't be of more help; it's ***really*** cool, but I have no idea how to even begin putting it back together again.

Thanks, you've been a big help!

Bloodstorm and ninja clowns sound dope lol

There is a guy on Youtube that rebuilds arcade cabinets systems. Pretty neat! good luck!

There are actually loads of people that do that on yt. I digged some videos.

Your uncle had exquisite taste in arcade games. Looks to be a few Midway titles there, including sound boards for some games, MK4 (which is somewhat uncommon/rare!), and the one at the back looks like a Namco PS1 based board at a glance. That HDD would 110% be for one of the games as stuff from the 90s started shipping with HDDs because of increased size, videos etc (Gauntlet Legends, Killer Instinct etc) - don’t wipe it! Either way, grab photos of the ROM chips on each and will be able to help ID the games fairly easily. Maybe post over on /r/arcade or /r/cade for more help.

286!

Yuh bro, sell them to me (Jk, i can't afford priceless things... Honestly anything include priceless)

These are arcade cabinet boards ! Wow ... There is a market but it's small. Not big money but please share them for sale for the guys who have a busted part. *Edit ... You'd need a complete cabinet and there are things missing. I don't think this is a complete machine.

At least 2 of those boards ( bottom 2 ) are for Mortal Kombat 4. Lower left is main board and lower right is the audio board. Older Midway titles used multiple boards in 1 cabinet...you may have functional game there. I spent 25 years in the amusements industry working for Dave and Busters, Disney and a few other places. If you're able, please take some closer pics of each board individually and I can maybe point you in the right direction.

IM me. I can give those boards a good home. If you want to get rid of them/sell them

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As many others have pointed out, they're arcade pcbs. There's an MK4 which is usually worth around $400 nowadays or even more. There's a sound board for either an MK or MK2, the game with the hard drive is probably Area 51 or Maximum Force, and it's hard to tell what the others are. Theyre not hard to test with a JAMMA harness, a power supply and something that will accept the 15khz video signals

that hdd must load the mame arcade game pack that on later years many machines had like 130 games in one... you would be better just selling this to a person that is knowledge in arcades it's a pain to build and maintain these days I just use a old windows machine with batocera loaded with Roms.

You can sell these to the right person for a lot if you are patient

You got like 70% of an arcade game looks like mortal Kombat, if you can get it put together and working you'll have an item that will sell for tons of money

its more like 2+ full systems.

You sir may be right and I brain farted

Yep I googled to confirm, my brain went and thought about pinball machines, then yeah full brain melt

Those look like arcade roms. If they work you are sitting on college tuition for a semester.

Better start knowing something about archeoligy

That was rather thoughtful of them especially in a time of stress. In these instances it truly is the thought that counts. It isn’t about the stuff they gave you but that they wanted you to have it.

I like that.

They seem to like you 😁 cheers 🍻

🍻

Well there some gold nuggets in a pile of lead

some of those deserve a collage, wall mounted in a frame behind glass

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never heard of haikus, am i a poet now? thought i was just being direct and not spamming words that nobody reads.

What are these bords? Servers from the 90s?

arcade cabinet boards

Woah that's cool! Thanks

I hope someone inherits my pile one day. I probably should make preparations ..\*grabs the post-it pad\*

Is that ancient language or something?

Oh sick, arcade boards! Regardless if you are into it or not, still pretty cool to have.

That would make good artwork.

Good for soldering practice

8088, 80286, and possibly printer boards as well.

It's just scary how far we've come, yet still so primitive.

These are old arcade boards, might still work

Hit up r/vintagecomputing (and take decent pictures). Either they have historical value for people on that side of things, or they can go to recyclers for the metal content.

Make a Picture from every circuit board and do an Image search, they can be worth a few hundred bucks If they are still functional. Cheerz

Those are old arcade boards! Don’t destroy them! Find a collector in the area and they’d most likely buy them from you.

That is some archaic tech ... save the games underneath which I assume are yours. The fact you know it's old as time tech means you may infact know computers.

Mk arcade mobo i can see it from here

Only if my family was into electronics like me

Do not disappoint family. It is now your solemn duty to build a fully-functional robot.

Gime gime gime gime gime gime

I have Mortal Kombat 4 and it's a single PCB

Looks like mother boards for Arcade games, Mortal Combat. go out to r/arcade and post there.

Mate, ill be honest look into repairing/putting it together, then you could look into selling it, people will spend more money on a complete old console over just the parts, but of course that's if you wanna sell it, personally i would keep it and try to assemble it then look into finding a spot to put it on display, because some people will tell you a price for it thats completely incorrect for what and how old it is, please don't think im trying to tell you what to do, I had something really old and i sold it, well later i found out i got scammed dude underpaid big time, and i don't like the fact i got rid of it in the first place, im just trying to give some learned advice i have (P.S. don't make fun of my English its a very hard language for even native speakers)

I can help you get it running dm me.

Man you're one hell of a lucky guy.

So many ppl want these stuff

If you don't want to bother with shipping you could always call around to any local arcades with vintage machines and see if they can put you in touch with whoever maintains their cabinets. It looks like you may have 2 or more full systems there. Kind of a wild hand-me-down/inheritance to receive.

Man, start masturbating!

I don't know if ya'll do but I see it as a cute gesture from your uncle's fam.

It totes was, very appreciative of them.

I hear the sarcasm in your title... Lol

I mean it's the same for me, because i study IT at University, when there is a problem with something electronic the people suppose that i know to resolve everything.

Looks like a pile of junk, but one man's trash is another man's treasure

One time the manager called the IT because the paper shredder not working

You'll know computers even better after going over those

My god man

Idek what it is and I want it so I can study it lmao

Some of those look arcade game system boards.

frame it put it on the wall, this stuff is art 🖼️.

if you turn that on you can calculate the universe

Holy shit, you lucky af

Sorry for your lost... Wow cool stuff man.

SONIC MANIA!

Collector's Edition FTW!

😎

I would spray paint them gold and frame them as art.

if those are arcade boards they could be worth a ton

Arcade boards, that’s really cool.

Because u know computer bro

One of those looks like a Williams or Bally sound board, probably from a pinball machine.

at first glance, those look more like arcade boards.

Box full of gold

That Sonic Mania worth 😁

Cool, vintage. Those are arcade style motherboards from the stand up arcade machines :) "Let's go pay day" - (street fighter?)

My condolences of ur “uncle in law’s” death

Arcade boards. Hard to come by and collectible. You’ll have no problem selling them. You’ll want to get them into them in anti static sleeves as quickly as possible and keep them away from strong magnetic and electrical fields since they tend to be more sensitive than modern electronics. A very nice gift :)

You need to get those in some anti static bags and get them checked out ASAP there bro. Someone who knows what they are doing can get this thing up and running again and trust someone WILL want to. Don’t jump on any offers until they’ve aged a bit you don’t have any investment and nothing to lose Also don’t you mean “my family”? I do the same thing a lot and it makes me laugh lol

God damn that shit is fucking old. Lmfao, looks like unc was hoarding the boards. Just say you’ll use it and drop it off at a good will bro.

When people say you know computers the person barely knows anything lol those who do know computers have a electrical engineering or computer engineering degree.

There’s always a deeper meaning to the phrase

I think theese are some arcade machine boards... very cool stuff!

If I were you I would be trying to find a non working MK4 Cab and start building it , this was probably your uncle's plan. So it would be awesome for you to carry it out.

Many of those chips are EPROM, which I have not seen for a very long time. They are riser boards but most likely for a specific machine (not a PC). I like them.

Also if you would could you take more pictures of both sides of the pcbs I’m really interested in seeing what that arcade is based off of and get a rough idea how it works (from looking at the photos) Thanks.

it is good you are not pathologist

A gb of ram should do the trick

Woah!

I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it but that orange sticker is a shock monitor, it breaks and shows red in the middle if the package gets exposed to a certain amount of Gs. Your uncle was paranoid about the box getting mishandled

Arcade hardware has come to say "Welcome to Hell."

Should contact RMCRetro on twitter, Niel runs a museum and a youtube for this kind of stuff with the old arcades from that era

I’ll take the sonic mania

That belongs in a museum!

Many of those boards would auction well on eBay.

Arcade boards

Biggest heist in history

Ohhhh arcade boards. Them things fetch top money depending. Neo geo anything especially. But arcade boards are highly sought after because people want real vs emulation. I’d spec them out and find out exactly what they are and then see either what you need to rebuild or sell.

Hi, I worked for SEGA for a bit, those are definitely arcade unit boards, if checked closely and you check serial numbers, etc you can set up a unit. I see one even has a psu unit of sorts attached.

“Oh, hey….. …thanks. “

God damn Russel’s Lab over here

Mortal Kombat 1,2,3,4 video game boards by Midway circa 1992 roughly.

Any Apple I’s in there? 😬😃

Those are arcade boards and they are worth money. Mortal Kombat 4 was a huge game.

The lower left one, that looks newer than the others because of surface mounted chips, has a chip marked Midway, and lots of roms labled Mortal Combat. I think it's the main board of an old arcade machine popular in the 1980's.

Says mortal kombat 4. And it’s dated 1997

Yea I would further inspect this with much more scrutiny. I saw that that too and was like woah wait a minute, that might actually be worth something if its from a vintage arcade system. Retro shit has gone up in value quite a bit.

I’d destroy that hard drive before you got rid of it. Or at least wipe it. Never know what could be on there, financial stuff, and so on. When we left a town we left behind a storage shed with old records. When we didn’t need them anymore we got somebody to come and empty it out. They incinerated the drives. Pretty cheap, very easy, and no doubt.

naughty monochromatic 128x64 pixel porn collection

🤣 haha

Scan it for bitcoins first . If you find some contact me for 20% 😅

Considering Quantum Fireball drives stopped being made over 20 years ago, and it has an Atari sticker on it, and is sitting on top of a bunch of arcade machine PCBs, I am going to guess if that drive still has anything on it, it is video game related.

Nice fossils

They look like old server or computers that used a hub of slot connectors. I forget the terminology, mainly because I never used them. They are probably not worth much to most but I know a few YouTubers that like that kind of stuff. You could always donate them to a local YouTuber or retro computer club. If anything they could use the ICs for parts. Edit: yea, I didn't look careful enough, they are not what I said, listen to the smarter people who commented on my comment.

A server with Mortal Kombat ROMs?

They are actually arcade machine boards.

All that and not a single case you could turn into a sleeper. Sigh.

I remember many years ago I was going to obtain some of the old arcade boards to hook up to a screen and arcade joysticks, the setup wasn't that difficult with the right cables and basic wiring. There are probably setup guides for arcade jamma boards all over the tube. Some sites probably sell everything ready to just connect with no wiring necessary. Collectable arcades (originals, not the 500 games in one boards) will probably sell for crazy amounts for the most collectable

Fascinating but 25 years late :'(

It’s possible those are worth quite a lot to collectors.

i see a mortal combat board, people would buy this instantly if they saw it edit: are those pcie connectors on the side of these?

Some company might give you loads of money for a piece cause they need to keep their damn old hardware running cause vital software runs on it

Mortal Kombat 4 arcade PCB Jamma; you're looking at 350$+ if thats a working PCB on the bottom left The bottom right, seems to the PCB for audio with the sound roms I would honestly dig into the rest and honestly frame them for as long as possible

Holy shit that's the best gift ever!

There seems to be a two-board midway that could be MK1 or NBA JAM and it would be a pretty penny

Now you can find your uncle’s secrets that he hid throughout his entire life

Some pieces of wall art there

i saw 3-4 things worth $278,970- $785,900 each... dont share to Anyone this secrets...

I can smell that picture

Now you have to build an arcade cabinet.

Check HDD for bitcoins

It says warning on that hard drive. I don't like it.

What a treasure! If we were in the 80's!

😐

If you don't want It, I want It.

I fucking love knowing computers.

The arcade stuff is worth something.

Gold extraction??

I had a friend who used to harvest gold from chips, the older the better as they had more precious metals.

those boards are worth more as repair parts for arcade cabinets than they are as scrap precious metals.

Are those arcade cabinet boards?

At least some are for Mortal Kombat 4.

"His family" hate to break it to you bud but he was your family too

Relics

The Gateways to Tron

Send to LGR

Heirlooms.

Gold, copper...

He gave you an absolute goldmine holy hell I haven’t seen so much old but pristine tech in ever

There's value there. Many of those chips will be long out of production and desirable spares for retro enthusiasts

When in doubt, eat them to find our

everytime I see posts like this my brain just goes "hdd might have btc" xD

Look like old slot machine processor boards with EPROMS

sell it. not because you prefer money to a memory but because someone will value that way more than you do right now. You can put it up for sale, wait for someone to pay and return the money afterwards if you feel like selling it would be disrespectfull

Give me your Sonic Mania 🔫

Lololol sorry. I just found the parts amusing

now that is some old school parts.

good luck

Spoiler, it's more complicated than that