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SeaMonkey:

When I was in Indiana and PA I couldn't throw a rock without hitting an old arcade cabinet.

Now that I live in Phoenix, it is dry. Check the net. There ARE no auctions in this state.

Back east is a cake walk compared to here.

I am debating going to the Indy auction in January and driving a truck back full of relief supplies for my desert dwelling brethern....

Tritoch84:


--- Quote from: Bloinkxp on December 15, 2004, 09:46:28 pm ---Good luck finding a cab. in LA.  My buddy lives in Monroe...well Ruston really.... and he is S.O.L so far.  Most arcades cabinets he finds are in very poor shape.
Louisiana is not exactly the "Arcade Capital".  :-\ Having lived in La and gone to school in Shreveport I can feel his pain.  I recommend going to a Dallas Auction or calling the arcade refurbishers in the area.  Heck try getting hold of Bob Roberts (he is in Louisiana).

Oh well.  Good luck.

-d

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At least someone knows our pain! In ruston, they used to have a good arcade. But this was some time ago. Monroe still has one in the mall, but it's gone downhill like crazy. Good thing I know the manager, he's walking to the back, sees me fixing to put money in some lame carnevil machine and says "no no no no!!!, don't do that. it don't shoot" even though it was running.

Shreveport used to have some, before I moved here (used to live in Farmervile, a town between Ruston and Monroe) but it closed down due to the owner not paying taxes on the place for 4 years. All we have now is the lamest family fun center with a DDR-like machine.

This state is HELL as far as arcades go, and Shreveport is like the, 9th level of hell.

But thanks to that, I opted to just freaking BUILD my own little arcade so I don't go insane.

Thats why I said I might try flyers, arcade machines are rare, and are mostly in pizza places that don't get rid of them.

Oh well, I'll keep trying.

Arcadiac:

I used a not-rare mostly empty arcade cab for my project, I like it a lot.

Keep posting here and don't give up.

Tailgunner:

Are you willing to drive over to Dallas? There's a Superauction there listed for the 22th of January.

http://www.superauctions.com/dates.html

Stingray:

I originally thought Oklahoma was totally dry as far as arcade cabinets go. The first few months of making cold calls to operators and so forth produced exactly zilch. Hang around this board and other vintage gaming boards. The more local contacts you make the better your chances are for being there when the deals come along. I've actually turned down a few decent empty cabs, an have picked up a couple of fully functional classic machines through the folks I've met online.

-S

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