Anyone here from Youngstown/NE Ohio?

steveovig · Post by **steveovig** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:00 am

Subject. Just looking for some folks to play some games with in the area.

rancor · Post by **rancor** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:49 pm

Too bad Tonk fell off the map - He's from Youngstown.

steveovig · Post by **steveovig** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:55 am

Yea, I tried contacting him but no go. Any idea what happened with him or is he just not logging in lately?

trap15 · Post by **trap15** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:30 am

He scammed a ton of money out of a bunch of people on neo-geo.com

moh · Post by **moh** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:10 pm

trap15 wrote:He scammed a ton of money out of a bunch of people on neo-geo.com

woah.

rancor · Post by **rancor** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:05 am

Allegedly. What was it, about ~$90,000 total from 3 people? I'm not so sure he knew what he was doing (the carts being fake), but as far as I know no refunds were given and his disappearance from the internet doesn't makes things look good on his side. I tried to contact him after I saw the news, but he's literally disappeared. I'm reserving judgement until we hear his side of the story, or at least a bit more from the people who "lost" their money.
I've dealt with Tonk for about 12 years, and while he can a bit pushy and assertive, I've never considered him a scammer.

moh · Post by **moh** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:10 am

WOW, WHAT THE FUCK.

I thought it was on the order of maybe a couple thousand dollars...

thats almost 6 figures..

thats a criminal offence.

steveovig · Post by **steveovig** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:50 am

Wow, I'm not holding my breath on getting a hold of him now.

njiska · Post by **njiska** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:42 pm

Yeah moh, he was the guy who made news for 3 Aero Fighters 3 carts.

http://www.substance-tv.com/30000-aerof ... a-forgery/

moh · Post by **moh** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:06 pm

I can't believe what I'm reading D:

robivy64 · Post by **robivy64** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 1:34 am

I remember someone posting his wife's twitter account on Neo Geo.

She was ranting on about the Yankees.

A few hours after it was posted, the twitter account was made private.

mrsmiley381 · Post by **mrsmiley381** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:58 am

Oh, shit. I remember when the cart sold, but not all the stuff that happened afterwards. I need to browse around here more often.

I'm from Elyria, which is west of Cleveland. I've got some faulty Sega consoles (that I can repair!), a Genesis flash cart, and a 19XX board hooked up to a supergun. I have a Smash TV board too, but that's an entirely different set of projects that need to be handled.

I also have more than enough non-shmup stuff. Beat 'em ups, platformers, and some other good multiplayer stuff. I'm sure we can bust out some stuff sometime.

MmSadda · Post by **MmSadda** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:37 am

If any of you NE Ohio guys are interested, a few of us from the Neo forums meet up in the North end of Columbus once in a while (usually at my place and/or Terry330's.) Most of us that meet here are into shooters as much as Neo, anyhow, and it'd make sense to have kind of an all-in-one Neo/shmup/general arcade and gaming meet here.

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