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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: rchadd on May 20, 2005, 06:04:30 pm

Title: coinop graveyard
Post by: rchadd on May 20, 2005, 06:04:30 pm
http://www.coinopwarehouse.com/pictures.html#vids

does such a place exist in the UK?

restore heaven!
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: ChadTower on May 20, 2005, 07:05:16 pm
Yep, the guy that runs it has a good rep, too... if you show up with a van and cash you can get some good deals.
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: 2600 on May 20, 2005, 07:51:29 pm
I wouldn't exactly call it a graveyard either.  Sometimes when I go there it seems more like wonderland, there's just so many games, pins, and what not.  You can even go up there just looking for parts or what not.  Last time all I picked up were a couple of 4" wico handles.

Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: Rocky on May 20, 2005, 10:54:29 pm
Graveyard isn't too far off for some of the stuff
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Post by: tommy on May 21, 2005, 01:01:06 am
 :o thats alot of games  :o  wish i was near there  :'(
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Post by: SuperGunGuru on May 21, 2005, 02:12:31 am
This would be a coinop graveyard.  :'( I was there and these are the pics I took. DarkKobold was there the same day and I'm sure he remembers how crazy that place was.

www.msu.edu/~miekkawi/kzoo
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: Chris on May 21, 2005, 02:37:16 am
 :'(

(http://webpages.charter.net/celamantia/mamecab/images/dump1.jpg)
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: GGKoul on May 22, 2005, 12:43:54 am
This would be a coinop graveyard.  :'( I was there and these are the pics I took. DarkKobold was there the same day and I'm sure he remembers how crazy that place was.

www.msu.edu/~miekkawi/kzoo

Was that a free for all?? 
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: SuperGunGuru on May 22, 2005, 12:47:50 am
Sorta. It was a legally run sale of the games, but it was a situation where you had to claim something before someone else did. I missed out on a good marquee for my Frogger because I thought I could just grab it after I went to get lunch. It was gone when I got back. Someone there was taking a bunch of marquees of games and I'm guessing he may have got it.
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: Redseven80 on May 23, 2005, 02:09:33 am
Heres a cool site with other graveyards


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

anyone got any more? I like the warehouse job. is that a pong in the background in one of those shots?
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: paigeoliver on May 23, 2005, 04:11:26 am
How come I saw all those nice looking Solar Quests in the warehouse, but none in the backs of the trucks afterwards?
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: Stingray on May 23, 2005, 10:46:13 am
Wow, that's so sad seeing all those great games just sitting there collecting dust. It's probably for the best that it's nowhere near me. I could easilly blow a few paychecks in there!

I'd sure love to have one of those Omega Races that are sitting there.

-S
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: ChadTower on May 23, 2005, 10:49:41 am
Anyone ever see one of that cab on the left?

http://www.coinopwarehouse.com/images/warehouse/imgp4762.jpg

What is that in the Space Duel cab?

http://www.coinopwarehouse.com/images/warehouse/imgp4784.jpg
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: Chris on May 23, 2005, 10:55:09 am
Anyone ever see one of that cab on the left?

http://www.coinopwarehouse.com/images/warehouse/imgp4762.jpg
No, but it looks like a multi-Pong clone of some sort.
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: ChadTower on May 23, 2005, 10:56:01 am
It's a very pretty fiberglass cab.
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Post by: Dire Radiant on May 23, 2005, 01:49:34 pm
Dear Lord, what on earth happened to that one Pac? Looks like someone attacked it with a lawnmower!
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: ChadTower on May 23, 2005, 01:56:21 pm
Water.
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Post by: DreamWeb on May 24, 2005, 02:03:12 pm
Water did -THAT- to a cab?!  Yikes...  I was unaware of the dangers of the H2O.

That's it...  No more water for me.  Only beer from here on in.

d.
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: ChadTower on May 24, 2005, 02:30:11 pm
Dude, clearly those things have been sitting there for 20 years.  If you had backstory, too, you'd know that even the floor was rotted out and unsafe in much of the building.  It was an abandoned warehouse.
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: SuperGunGuru on May 24, 2005, 10:29:51 pm
Dude, clearly those things have been sitting there for 20 years.
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: NY_in_TX on May 25, 2005, 11:03:09 am
http://www.alsarcade.com/Andy/arc/grose/pics/conv46.jpg


 :'(
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Post by: PacMon on May 26, 2005, 01:02:06 pm
I'm showing that website to my wife just to show her I don't have too many cabinets... ;D
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Post by: ethous on May 27, 2005, 08:25:33 am
God there is allot of cabs there that pain me to see them like that.
Thats when you wish you could operators like that and would give them to you.
Some would be a good project.
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: ChadTower on May 27, 2005, 09:13:31 am
God there is allot of cabs there that pain me to see them like that.
Thats when you wish you could operators like that and would give them to you.
Some would be a good project.

So, would you buy them all?  There are two alternatives to you showing up and buying the building:  they stay there where they are safe and sound until someone restores them, or they burn the building down and take the insurance money. 
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on June 04, 2005, 01:55:24 pm
http://homepage.mac.com/copocamaro1/PhotoAlbum6.html  (http://homepage.mac.com/copocamaro1/PhotoAlbum6.html)
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: ChadTower on June 04, 2005, 02:08:39 pm
There's a Star Wars cockpit hidden in there.
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on June 04, 2005, 09:32:39 pm
Did you notice the "warped Ms. Pac"?

Was that damaged by water? wind? fire?
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: Gootfu on June 05, 2005, 05:13:57 am
I think thats where I want to be when I die!
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: quarterback on June 07, 2005, 02:47:04 pm
Did you notice the "warped Ms. Pac"?

Was that damaged by earth? wind? fire?

I always knew those guys (http://www.earthwindandfire.com/) were up to no good!

Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: Nalski on June 08, 2005, 07:39:41 pm
http://www.coinopwarehouse.com/pictures.html#vids

does such a place exist in the UK?

restore heaven!

If it does, I'm first in the queue for a Mad Planets joystick!  ;D
Title: Re: coinop graveyard
Post by: bossyman15 on June 13, 2005, 08:31:13 pm
DAMN! it sadness me to see all those doomed arcades!!!! and that old warehouse in the forest... why would someone just leave it there?

why didn't they just take them all with them or sell them all for cheap to save their lives!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh woes is me!!!