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Title: Have gone on a warehouse raid...
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on July 13, 2007, 04:08:46 pm
I am going on a warehouse raid this afternoon, just a little bit outside of Corpus Christi, Texas....I was told that there are about 100 games in there, ranging from House of the Dead, Time Crisis 2...to Asteroids Deluxe, and I hear...maybe even a Tac/Scan???

Wish me luck...

I will post some pics as soon as I come back...
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: ChadTower on July 13, 2007, 04:13:03 pm

Nice.  Those are always great, even if the seller is an unreasonable pricer.  Still fun to wander around.
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on July 13, 2007, 04:20:33 pm
The new owner of the amusment company got it handed down from his father who retired...and doesn't really want to keep it open...there fore...I was told everything in there was $150-500, some working, most not working
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: ChadTower on July 13, 2007, 04:21:53 pm

Good luck, man.  Pull all the vectors you can.  Any pins?
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on July 13, 2007, 04:24:01 pm
I don't know of any pins...but we will have to wait and see...
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: Kevin Mullins on July 13, 2007, 04:38:07 pm
You haven't left yet !?!?     :cheers:
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: ChadTower on July 13, 2007, 04:40:08 pm

He's probably posting from the loading dock, doing the pee pee dance waiting for the guy to show up with the keys.
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: shardian on July 13, 2007, 04:42:20 pm
We expect video,photos, detailed accounts of each machine, and of course expect you to buy at least a truck full. :laugh2:
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: ChadTower on July 13, 2007, 04:43:40 pm

Eff that I expect a real time video feed.  I want to see him climb over the crane machines and fall in between them when he spots what might be a DOTE in the back that turns out to be a b/w photo booth.
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: shardian on July 13, 2007, 04:44:29 pm

Eff that I expect a real time video feed.  I want to see him climb over the crane machines and fall in between them when he spots what might be a DOTE in the back that turns out to be a b/w photo booth.

I want a photo booth in my game room...
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: ChadTower on July 13, 2007, 04:45:44 pm

Is your game room big enough to use that much space on something you can do with a tennis ball sized object?
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on July 13, 2007, 04:50:23 pm
I am hoping for some good Vectors and maybe some DMD pins...or at least SS
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: shardian on July 13, 2007, 04:57:34 pm

Is your game room big enough to use that much space on something you can do with a tennis ball sized object?

It's the atmosphere that matters...
Jeez, why don't you just sell all your pin machines and arcade games and play on a pc. Who needs full-size equipment???
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: psychotech on July 13, 2007, 05:13:14 pm
Jeez, why don't you just sell all your pin machines and arcade games and play on a pc. Who needs full-size equipment???

:laugh2:   :cheers:
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: Chris G on July 13, 2007, 05:29:33 pm
Good luck!  Grab me a Robotron if you see one.  ;)   :cheers:
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: ChadTower on July 13, 2007, 06:43:12 pm
It's the atmosphere that matters...
Jeez, why don't you just sell all your pin machines and arcade games and play on a pc. Who needs full-size equipment???

Hrm... a good pin... a cockpit driver... or a dedicated room with a game boy camera in it.  That's a tough one.
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: Justin Z on July 13, 2007, 09:56:16 pm
You have to admit he had a point though.
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: AwesomeAlbert on July 14, 2007, 01:22:05 am
where exactly is this warehouse?? he he, Q*bert_24/7 is the closest person too me (about a two hour drive), he gave me my first cab, now i have 4 !!! only one works !!
i need more though.
Title: Re: Going on a warehouse raid...
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on July 14, 2007, 01:47:06 am
I'm back...

here are the results:

What I heard as Tac/Scan...well...that was really Pac Man (I'll blame that on my phone  :angry:)

There were not to many classics there an Asteroids(extremely water damaged), a broken Galaga (PCB problems), but many gun shooting games, all with gun problems...

Overall, I am going back to pickup a HOTD, a Time Crisis 2, and a SF3strike, and maybe the Galaga...
Title: Re: Have gone on a warehouse raid...
Post by: Angry_Radish on July 14, 2007, 07:40:40 am
Did you manage to get any pics so I can agonize over what I would have wanted?  :cheers:
Title: Re: Have gone on a warehouse raid...
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on July 15, 2007, 12:37:26 am
Did you manage to get any pics so I can agonize over what I would have wanted?  :cheers:

No pics yet, by the time I go there, it was getting too dark for a cell phone camera to work...I am going back though...
Title: Re: Have gone on a warehouse raid...
Post by: digitui on July 15, 2007, 12:40:14 am
geez, nice haul!