Author Topic: Cabinet Genocide (Read 6969 times)

RayB · « **on:** July 20, 2007, 12:16:59 pm »

http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1645260_1412424,00.html

(I don't get why they need to physically destroy those machines. Why not rip out the circuit boards and anything else that makes them a "gambling device"

?) Crushing candy cabs with their monitors?

? WHY?!

Chris G · « **Reply #1 on:** July 20, 2007, 12:38:57 pm »

Damn, what a waste...

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #2 on:** July 20, 2007, 12:45:42 pm »

omfg

Malenko · « **Reply #3 on:** July 20, 2007, 12:49:19 pm »

sad. they could grab some boot leg pacman boards and toss those machines into orphanages or something more useful. poor candy cabs

Q*Bert_OP · « **Reply #4 on:** July 20, 2007, 12:51:30 pm »

All I will say is that where ever you live, it is good to get to know the gaming commissioner

11 CGA/VGA monitors...free...'nuff said

Havok · « **Reply #5 on:** July 20, 2007, 01:14:59 pm »

Who cares? That's in China - there's probably not one actual original licensed cab there, most likely all pirate bootlegged generic crap...

shardian · « **Reply #6 on:** July 20, 2007, 01:18:31 pm »

I just thought this one was funny from that link. Who's the authority figure there?

ChadTower · « **Reply #7 on:** July 20, 2007, 01:23:10 pm »

US and British forces on patrol in Iraq. You tell me which is which.

RandyT · « **Reply #8 on:** July 20, 2007, 06:44:13 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on July 20, 2007, 01:23:10 pm

US and British forces on patrol in Iraq. You tell me which is which.

The British are the ones with the funny hats

RE: Cabs...

torez · « **Reply #9 on:** July 20, 2007, 08:49:43 pm »

That's alot of matches.

Looks like they were all bootlegs with no sideart, etc.

4Aaron GE · « **Reply #10 on:** July 21, 2007, 12:07:30 am »

They do this because it makes for a better video/sound bite or photo. Just like when the provincial government here crushed a few 'street racing' vehicles up here. It doesn't matter that there are scads more going unnoticed, or that a metric buttload of material is going to waste. The pols look like they're being effective.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #11 on:** July 21, 2007, 12:12:00 am »

Here is the fun part, look closer at the pictures, the valuable bits have already been salvaged out of most of those machines. All of wooden machines appear to have been stripped, as have about half of those Candy cabinets.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #12 on:** July 21, 2007, 02:48:41 am »

Quote from: paigeoliver on July 21, 2007, 12:12:00 am

Here is the fun part, look closer at the pictures, the valuable bits have already been salvaged out of most of those machines. All of wooden machines appear to have been stripped, as have about half of those Candy cabinets.

well spotted. i would say the only reason any parts have been stripped out is for recycling. its doubtful that any pcbs are going to make their way back into circulation since it needs a cab to be in. i cant see anyone doing that, except one or two filched pcbs by individuals. the reason the monitors havent been pulled out is just ignorance or laziness id say. if youve confiscated stuff, it didnt cost you anything so it hardly matters what is wasted. there is a large market for recycled metals from electronics in china and it cost cents per hour to do. the monitors need someone savvy enough to sell them in a secondary market (it probably does happen or will soon enough). the metals etc from recycling already have a well established market.

probably once the cabs have been crushed they will be sorted into other recyclables like wood and plastic. again for cents an hour.

TOK · « **Reply #13 on:** July 21, 2007, 06:02:54 am »

Don't worry, those cabs may be smashed and ground up, but they'll go to good use as pet food filler or stuffing for kids toys from Wal Mart.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #14 on:** July 21, 2007, 07:41:10 am »

Quote from: TOK on July 21, 2007, 06:02:54 am

Don't worry, those cabs may be smashed and ground up, but they'll go to good use as pet food filler or stuffing for kids toys from Wal Mart.

torez · « **Reply #15 on:** July 21, 2007, 12:01:01 pm »

Quote from: RayB on July 20, 2007, 12:16:59 pm

http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1645260_1412424,00.html

(I don't get why they need to physically destroy those machines. Why not rip out the circuit boards and anything else that makes them a "gambling device"?) Crushing candy cabs with their monitors?? WHY?!

Hey, I see Waldo!!!

Kangum · « **Reply #16 on:** July 21, 2007, 01:10:00 pm »

for some reason i thought candy cabs were never bootleg. wood cabs with no graphics and stuff i can understand its quick and fast and cheap. it seems like more trouble to bootleg a candy cab. obviously im wrong since there is a huge pile there.

RayB · « **Reply #17 on:** July 21, 2007, 04:29:32 pm »

Doesn't anyone else look at that photo and think "those could have been MAME'd!" ?

WunderCade · « **Reply #18 on:** July 21, 2007, 05:12:41 pm »

What I notice in that photo is that 'blue' is a universally over-used color for arcade machines and not just in the BYOAC community.

More Cowbell · « **Reply #19 on:** July 21, 2007, 05:33:33 pm »

75 brazillion Chinese people can't be wrong.

torez · « **Reply #20 on:** July 21, 2007, 09:38:56 pm »

More cowbell?

stuckpixel · « **Reply #21 on:** July 22, 2007, 09:46:12 am »

Ship those candy cabs over here! Americans will buy your garbage china!

TOK · « **Reply #22 on:** July 22, 2007, 12:51:13 pm »

Quote from: stuckpixel on July 22, 2007, 09:46:12 am

Ship those candy cabs over here! Americans will buy your garbage china!

Ain't that the truth!

Apollo · « **Reply #23 on:** July 22, 2007, 05:26:27 pm »

The Chinese are weird man, why on earth destroy a card table?
I'm betting that all those candy cabs will be removed and reused as I don't see a single one destroyed and the ones I do see are all nicely stacked upright even the one on its own in the top left corner.

bfauska · « **Reply #24 on:** July 23, 2007, 02:30:19 am »

I bet if you look in the right part of a landfill in any country you can find plenty of reasons to call everybody weird. So much stuff gets tossed out every day that somebody else would find perfectly useful it is disgusting. I do it myself but that's different I can't use the stuff I toss out, what drives me crazy is knowing that somebody else is tossing out stuff I CAN use. What the hell are they thinking? Don't they know I want that crap?

Level42 · « **Reply #25 on:** July 23, 2007, 03:42:54 pm »

Looks like the monitors and all important stuff have been removed already

Knowing Chinese mentality and corruption, probably most of the monitors, PCB's and other parts have been ripped out of the cabs and sold to other builders of pirate cabs

The only thing I feel sorry for are the candy's, but notice that these are the furthest away from the machine wracking them.....They could get good money from it.

Malenko · « **Reply #26 on:** July 23, 2007, 04:09:23 pm »

Quote from: WunderCade on July 21, 2007, 05:12:41 pm

What I notice in that photo is that 'blue' is a universally over-used color for arcade machines and not just in the BYOAC community.

if it makes you feel better, I painted my Pengo Cabinet Black

stuckpixel · « **Reply #27 on:** July 23, 2007, 09:29:06 pm »

Eh, anything remotely usable I throw up on craigslist for free or dirt cheap.

Though, it is true, so much stuff gets thrown away it's amazing. I've never been a dumpster diver myself but I have a few friends who have been _very_ successful with it.

Havok · « **Reply #28 on:** July 23, 2007, 11:52:40 pm »

Quote from: stuckpixel on July 22, 2007, 09:46:12 am

Americans will buy your garbage china!

Sadly, we already do this way too much...

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #29 on:** August 02, 2007, 07:50:48 am »

Thing is i imagine there is no market for those cabs over there. Shipping costs to the U.S. probably make it not worth while hence it's easier to scrap them. It's like when the arcade boom time was over in the U.K. machines were just skipped because there was no market for old cabs as there were so many being disposed of daily to make way for newer cabs. It was cheaper to skip them than store them to try and sell on...I got offered an original working space invaders cab for £25 around 1992 but i had no trasport so the guy just skipped it, no one wanted it. The majority of chinese don't have many luxuries and i can't see a mame cab being on the list. It is sad but thats the way it is.

SavannahLion · « **Reply #30 on:** August 02, 2007, 09:38:13 pm »

Quote from: stuckpixel on July 23, 2007, 09:29:06 pm

Though, it is true, so much stuff gets thrown away it's amazing. I've never been a dumpster diver myself but I have a few friends who have been _very_ successful with it.

http://freegan.info/

Green Giant · « **Reply #31 on:** August 03, 2007, 01:51:33 am »

Quote from: SavannahLion on August 02, 2007, 09:38:13 pm

http://freegan.info/

I am really confused. How did they get a computer, get online, and produce their own website?

I wonder if they understand the word hypocritical.

Also, the pics above aren't as depressing as the vids from the 20's during prohibition. All that Jack just dumped out.

Teebor · « **Reply #32 on:** August 03, 2007, 02:51:23 am »

Quote from: SavannahLion on August 02, 2007, 09:38:13 pm

http://freegan.info/

Freegan = Hippie with a computer

Q*Bert_OP · « **Reply #33 on:** August 03, 2007, 02:56:50 pm »

Quote from: Green Giant on August 03, 2007, 01:51:33 am

Quote from: SavannahLion on August 02, 2007, 09:38:13 pm
http://freegan.info/

I am really confused. How did they get a computer, get online, and produce their own website?

From a dumpster...

ChadTower · « **Reply #34 on:** August 03, 2007, 03:05:00 pm »

http://www.freecycle.org

MrMojoZ · « **Reply #35 on:** August 03, 2007, 03:17:51 pm »

The computer shop I work for gets dumpster divers all the time. Not sure why since anything I'd consider useful goes straight to a recycler but oh well.

ahofle · « **Reply #36 on:** August 03, 2007, 05:55:48 pm »

Am I the only one who thinks it would be fun as hell to be in the driver's seat of that excavator?

psychotech · « **Reply #37 on:** August 03, 2007, 06:36:51 pm »

NOT...


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