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I find this very sad...
paigeoliver:
I am just a backyard shed game dealer and I have torched or dumpstered probably 8 cabinets this year because I couldn't even give them away. You can sell the right empty cabinet for $150 even if it is nothing but the wood, but you can't even give away a lot of cabinets.
thefox:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on July 31, 2013, 04:22:52 pm ---there is a profound excess of supply over demand for cabinets and many used parts
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Reading through both sides of the argument on this thread, I think folks in the U.S. need to bear in mind that from a UK perspective, it may be seen as more upsetting. There are literally NO classic cabs left in public use in the UK, and there is certainly no excess supply of anything arcade related. I suspect this is because most places leased cabs from companies that then promptly trashed them years ago. In a country proud of its contribution to the gaming industry, it hits hard to see items that are considered a rare piece of cultural heritage being trashed. But that's the perspective from this side of the pond. If any of you guys found a way to export such cabs cheaply to the UK, you'd have a good business !
Haze:
--- Quote from: thefox on August 02, 2013, 09:15:22 am ---
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on July 31, 2013, 04:22:52 pm ---there is a profound excess of supply over demand for cabinets and many used parts
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Reading through both sides of the argument on this thread, I think folks in the U.S. need to bear in mind that from a UK perspective, it may be seen as more upsetting. There are literally NO classic cabs left in public use in the UK, and there is certainly no excess supply of anything arcade related. I suspect this is because most places leased cabs from companies that then promptly trashed them years ago. In a country proud of its contribution to the gaming industry, it hits hard to see items that are considered a rare piece of cultural heritage being trashed. But that's the perspective from this side of the pond. If any of you guys found a way to export such cabs cheaply to the UK, you'd have a good business !
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Yeah, finding UK specific stuff is very difficult these days, the number of UK pub quiz games there were which simply aren't dumped (and have come and gone over the last 10 years with no traces of anybody dumping them at all) is staggering, even for a lot of the ones that are dumped the question roms etc. are missing.
Those (and many of the less popular UK fruit machines) are simply nowhere anymore, sometimes people don't even have photos of them! You're very lucky if you find a classic arcade with the games.
Unlike say Italy where we end up finding rare prototypes and other such things that have been sitting in warehouses since the 80s it does seem that here games were more likely to be recalled then trashed or recycled rather than stored somewhere forever.
Of course that doesn't help this situation because the shipping costs of such massive units is going to be more than anybody would be able to sell them for over here, even if there are probably hundreds of people who would happily take them for free.
Minwah:
Even in the mid-late 80's I didn't see that many original machines in the UK. 90% were generic jamma type cabinets (most of them awful).
McHale:
It is upsetting to see this but I will say, if they were offered for free for the taking I have to give them credit. There's an amusement place out by me that WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES LET ANYONE HAVE STUFF FROM THEIR GARBAGE. I put that all in caps because it's been yelled at me so many times it's the only way I can remember it. When I used to work near there, I snagged 2 complete Tron cabs, Carnival, Choplifter, a couple random empty cabs and a ton of parts. When they found out, they started destroying them with a sledge before they put them outside.
So yes, it happens but at least they offered them (and still offer them) for free before doing so. I'll give them props for that.