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csa3d:

--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 05, 2008, 07:22:44 am ---
--- Quote from: yalborap on February 04, 2008, 11:21:02 pm ---You know what matters to me? The internals and artwork. And if you can strip the artwork off and gut the parts, you know what you're left with? A worthless, damn, plywood box.
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You know what.... You're absolutely right! It's a worthless damned plywood box.

But it's only a worthless damned plywood box because it's had all of that stripped out of it. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Lets take a faberge egg remove the jewels, remove the gold hardware, sand the translucent enamel off the surface and give it a nice coat of white paint to freshen it up. What have you got now... A nice bright white paste egg, completely worthless and unrestorable but still nice and bright.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear) 

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Well, then put the jewels back on it, a bit of touch up, and it no longer smells like a rotten egg.
-csa
shardian:

--- Quote from: stan2323 on February 04, 2008, 06:09:11 pm ---Let me put my 2 cent in here.  All you that want to preserve “history” here is one for you to think about.  In my town a guy had an old house and the windows were real lead stained glass.  They were making his daughter sick.  He replaced them with new windows.  Well the town historical society sued him to make him put the original windows back in AND WON.  He owned the house out right and it was not on any historical registry or anything like that.  I am sick to death of people that care more about preserving history, animals, or any other thing at the expense of someone else’s health or finances but not there own.


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You have a link or something for that story? Is it recent or old? That is absolutely crazy, and I would think it could make national attention.
MadGamer:
This has been a very interesting read and all seem to have one or two good points. So I figured I would throw my two cents in. I'm all for preservation of most things and so are most that's why antiques and museums are so popular. But what determines something to be worth preserving. We have a local museum and a friend and I on a whim decided to stop one day. We paid to get in not very much maybe $2.00. As we entered the first room it was completely filled with bowls. We went back to the curator and said what's with all the bowls. He replied its soup tureen month here at the museum. The whole museum display was soup tureens, big small colorful bowls. I felt so ripped off I mean who really gives a rats *ss about soup bowls not me. So it's something you care about that's worth preserving to you. And the best place to do that is in your memories and that's why we care about these games. We want to relive our childhoods going to the arcade where all it cost was a quarter and you can go far away where there were no cares or worries even if it was only temporary you knew you were always just one quarter away. So you want to preserve something preserve the game rooms we all remember. That what's worth preserving? Not some collector who has the means to restore a machine that they can keep it in there own collection. But for the kid who only has a quarter.
ChadTower:

--- Quote from: brandon on February 04, 2008, 06:48:17 pm ---The Atari version of ET comes to mind... :D

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The Atari version of ET was not commercial equipment costing thousands of dollars per unit.   :)
FrizzleFried:
Well,  I am tired of defending the MAME community over at KLOV.  They point to Galaxians being gutted,  Dig Dugs,  being killed,  etc as a reason why MAME is the anti-christ and I try to point out that RESPONSIBLE MAMEers don't kill classic dedicated cabs.   Hard to do that when so many ARE.

I got in to arcade collecting through MAME.  My first cabinet was a beat to hell Robocop that had been converted to a Street Fighter II that had been gutted.  I have a soft spot for MAME and even though I have 11 dedicated arcade cabinets,  I still have 3 MAMEd cabinets among them.   I get defensive when arcade collectors go on a tirade about MAME and how it's killing cabs... but damn,  it's hard to be defensive when (it seems) so many people don't give two shits whether they destroy a classic arcade cabinet or not.

It seems that the arcade collecting community is right...

---fudgesicle--- it...it's your cab...do what you want...doesn't mean I'm not going to call you a --cream-filled twinkie-- for doing so.  If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck,  for some strange reason I highly doubt it's a Humming Bird.

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