Graveyard..

[yuppicide]

Awhile ago (might have been here) I saw a link for a Arcade Game Graveyard. It had a lot of pictures. Anyone have the link?!

[BeerGnome]

ask and ye shall recieve..

coin op warehouse.. I belive is what you were looking for

[Atariboy]

I think he's after a much more unpleasant kind of arcade graveyard.

 

http://www.alsarcade.com/Andy/arc/grose/index.html

 

http://members.tripod.com/arcademachine/barn/barn.htm

[BeerGnome]

I think he's after a much more unpleasant kind of arcade graveyard.

 

http://www.alsarcade.com/Andy/arc/grose/index.html

 

http://members.tripod.com/arcademachine/barn/barn.htm

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I think that covers the whole acceptance of tragedy thing...

[yuppicide]

AtariBoy thanks.. those were the ones I was looking for, although I enjoyed looking at the one Beer sent as well. Old games have always gave me the creeps. They send a chill up my spine. I think this goes back to my childhood when there was a broken Pac-Man machine. If you moved the joystick one direction it went wokka wokka, if you moved in another direction it made another sound. Well, I didn't notice but the wall outlet behind me started to spark and was about to catch fire when my friend said something and I moved out of the way as the owner of the deli came over with a fire extinguisher and pulled out the plug.

 

Ever since then old beat up games give me the creeps lol. Especially in large numbers.

[BeerGnome]

well.. I know it's enivitable that these things happen.. ugh.. its just.. shamefull.. to think its hard as hell to find vector monitors nowadays and to see a shot up omega race in one one of those pics..

I swear.. most of those cabs look like they saw some time on the shewt'n range of that thar farm..

[JimmydelaKopin]

Reminds me of a case I saw recently on "Judge Judy" (a guilty pleasure ).

 

Woman bought what she thought was a Ms. Pac-Man machine off of e-bay...but it was a Ms. Pac-Man board (probably a pcb) installed into another machine.

 

The seller said that he bought thirty machines found in a barn and was selling off 27 of them through e-bay. (He kept 3 for his pizza parlor.) Thing is, all he did was a board swap for the Ms. Pac-Man machine. He painted the sides white and stenciled in the words "Ms. Pac-Man" in yellow, then did the same stenciling in yellow on a piece of white corrugated cardboard--which he then cut to size and put over the actual marquee. He then cling-wrapped the entire machine (with the wrap holding the cardboard over the marquee) and shipped it like that.

 

What some people won't do for money, huh?

 

(Oh yeah, the woman was buying it for her husband; she got her money back. Apparently the seller didn't want the machine back, so the woman is going to give it to a local charity. The machine works...it's simply lacking the appropriate Ms. Pac-Man artwork.)