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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: testicle187 on February 15, 2009, 09:29:43 pm
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I'm not sure if this has been posted here before or not, but I just saw a link to this site on craiglist. I wonder if this is really necessary...
http://thearcadeboneyard.com/Burn-Pics.html
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I must admit I've done a few that way myself.
They have to be really bad though before that happens.
(usually water damaged like they were out in the rain or something)
Quick and clean way to dispose of them for sure.
Those guys seem to strip more than they fix though. (my opinion)
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Check out the luxury custom home with swimming pool in the background. Classy! :)
"Shoot Cletus, ain't it fun burnin' stuff? Yee haw!"
(http://thearcadeboneyard.com/files/taito_burn_1.JPG)
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That jungle king was totally restorable.
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when i first saw this website i cried
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That jungle king was totally restorable.
Agreed...... that would NOT have gone in the pile here.
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That jungle king was totally restorable.
Doesn't matter. If you check that site's home page, you'll find this:
Welcome to the Arcade Boneyard used arcade parts. My whole games category rarely has listings,we kill em all Tecmo,Mylstar,Konami,Irem,Cinematronics,Namco,Capcom,Williams,SNK,Data East,Bally Midway,Taito,Sega,Merrit,Stern,Atari,Centuri,Exidy,Chicago Coin,Nintendo.If In or close to FL, we are always looking to buy & sell arcade machines & parts. If your looking for something and dont see it listed contact me....
He makes it a point to destroy the cabs, not resurrect, restore or even sell empty cabs.
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The guy's censored by saint. :censored:
ARCADIAC!
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That jungle king was totally restorable.
maybe. i remember there was a furore over a defender (i think) that shared a similar fate. might have even been the same guy. anyway, once you looked closer, it really was a write off. you could see the edges were all swollen from water ingress.
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That jungle king was totally restorable.
maybe. i remember there was a furore over a defender (i think) that shared a similar fate. might have even been the same guy. anyway, once you looked closer, it really was a write off. you could see the edges were all swollen from water ingress.
at the volume at which this guy is destroying them, after stripping them for parts, theres no way hes taking a closer look or even bothering to restore. hes basically bragging about being an arcade chop shop and the pictures show he doesnt care about arcades at all and thinks its "cool" to ignite them.
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What some call arson, I call murder.
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What you call murder, I call marketing.
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Touche`
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What you call marketing I call just wanting to make an easy quick buck.
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What you call marketing I call just wanting to make an easy quick buck.
what you call 'just wanting to make an easy quick buck' i call amway...
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What you call marketing I call just wanting to make an easy quick buck.
what you call 'just wanting to make an easy quick buck' i call amway...
What you call Amway we call Quixtar...
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What you call Amway we call Quixtar...
What you call Quixtar I call Madoff.
Seems you had a typo there. ;)
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What you call Quixtar I call a multi-level marketing scam.
What you call multi-level marketing I call pyramid scheme.
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What you call multi-level marketing I call pyramid scheme.
What you call pyramid scheme I call bailout.
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What you call bailout I call stimulus package.
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What you call stimulus package I call Bankruptcy.
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I know you are but what am I?
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I know he is but what are you?
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What you call stimulus package I call Bankruptcy.
and then we start all over ;D
fin de siecle...
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And what you cal fin de siecle I call something we all
need can use.
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And what you cal fin de siecle I call something we all need.
I don't need it. I'm responsible with my money, thankyouverymuch! :angry:
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And what you cal fin de siecle I call something we all need can use.
I don't need it. I'm responsible with my money, thankyouverymuch! :angry:
Very well then..... please go buy yourself a cookie and enjoy it to it's fullest extent.
BTW - my particular fin de siecle reference had nothing to do with money.
Edited my statement, maybe that will help.
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And what you cal fin de siecle I call something we all need can use.
I don't need it. I'm responsible with my money, thankyouverymuch! :angry:
Very well then..... please go buy yourself a cookie and enjoy it to it's fullest extent.
BTW - my particular fin de siecle reference had nothing to do with money.
Edited my statement, maybe that will help.
Lol... I will buy myself a cookie. A biggun.
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I want a cookie but my gov'ment monies ain't here yet.
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Check out the luxury custom home with swimming pool in the background. Classy! :)
"Shoot Cletus, ain't it fun burnin' stuff? Yee haw!"
(http://thearcadeboneyard.com/files/taito_burn_1.JPG)
that house in the back is not mine classy isn't it tail lights and all you should check out the giant concrete chicken they have in the front
as far as the cabs i burn they are beyond repair if you can tell from a pic or not
i do offer empty cabs for sale $20 & $25 each plenty of them 40 ft trailer about 3/4 full of empty cabs
pics of games i have repaired are on the pics page
any other intelligent comment i will gladly answer
http://TheArcadeBoneyard.com
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"Intelligent comments?"
He don't know us vewwy well do he? <---E. Fudd voice
Welcome cabinet slayer!
ARCADIAC!
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vidkiller13.
just a thought. get a roll of large paper.
make a cut out of sides of cabs.
roll them in a mailer.
sell them here in buy sell trade
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vid killer, heres a thought, stop taking so much pride in destroying what we try to preserve.
Arcade Bone Yard, Vid Killer, skulls, grim reapers.....we get it, your a goth turd.
The jungle king on this page is TOTALLY restore-able, you just think its cool to burn em, much like that other ---uvula--- who was taking a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- in the asteroids cabinet.
I'll never buy a single thing from you and I will deter any and everyone I know from dealing with you. Hopefully your business will die very soon because you're destroying what cant be replaced.
The worst part is you think that converting an operation thunderbolt into an MKII and having a gauntlet converted into X-Men are good things. They aren't. Your Tekken 2 Space Ace makes my head hurt. And using the age old excuse of "it was converted to something else first" doesn't cut the mustard around here, not once you've seen the Trivia game converted back to Pac-Man
Speckle paint, generic marquee, and multigame board < (is less then) Gauntlet
Your Ninja Turtles "conversion" is laughable at best. How can 4 people stand in front of that machine at once?
I digress, looking at your geocities-esque site for examples is just pissing me off.
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I digress, looking at your geocities-esque site for examples is just pissing me off.
I agree..... about five minutes of scrolling left and right constantly and I was done looking. :P
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While I agree the cabs appear quite structurally sound, and that their fate is unfortunate, it's possible his region doesn't allow much interest in them.
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The last auction I went to they had the back room filled with gutted cabs. They wouldn't be able to give them all away, so I assumed they were going to call one of those traveling dumpsters to pick them up.
These aren't irreplaceable works of art. They're flimsily nailed together pieces of plywood. Anyone with the skills needed to restore those cabinets could build new one 10x better at half the cost and energy it takes to restore it.
The irreplaceable parts have been saved, heck, they may have even been put into a new cabinet that’ll last years longer than the one they were removed from.
the people you should be mad at are the ones who are holding onto an original cabinet that they can't fix so it's being used as a condo for mice in their shed.
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These aren't irreplaceable works of art. They're flimsily nailed together pieces of plywood. Anyone with the skills needed to restore those cabinets could build new one 10x better at half the cost and energy it takes to restore it.
The irreplaceable parts have been saved, heck, they may have even been put into a new cabinet that’ll last years longer than the one they were removed from.
I see your point. However, it's not entirely true. Until many of these cabinets are archived in some manner, they are indeed irreplaceable. The death of a Death Race (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=65774.0) is a prime example. AFAIK, there are two versions of the cabinet (http://klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7541) and archiving the complete artwork is still not done. Much less any record of the actual construction of the cabinet itself.
I understand that not every cabinet can be saved. This is a fact that holds true for every archiving project. Something I had to deal with on a daily basis at my last job.
People have to keep in mind that one should save as much as feasibly possible, especially when there's a historical context. No matter how well we may record and reproduce the cabinets, I'll bet that in the next twenty years, techniques, or concepts, or new technologies or whatever will come within our grasp and our reproductions will be even better. Take for example the Hellomat (http://www.localarcade.com/arcade_art/details.php?image_id=1431) (yes, I know it's not exactly an arcade game, that's not the point) marquee with the reflective surface. Would you rather someone who is looking to reproduce a marquee like that look at a scanned (and incorrect) image or look at the real thing?
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I digress, looking at your geocities-esque site for examples is just pissing me off.
I agree..... about five minutes of scrolling left and right constantly and I was done looking. :P
i offer cabs for sale all the time at the highest $25
as far as taking pride in killing off games you reading into things the wrong way im figuring if not worth anything at least get a couple pics out of them and really do you think im getting these games for free these are items i have pruchased to do with what i feel like and if i choose to burn junk instead of hauling to the dump its my choice . im sure most arcade ppl have scrapped out games unless brand new to this
if what im doing bothers you so much dont ever go by a vending company thats closing,relocating downsizing who would you complain too when you see 30 yard dumpsters full of the same kind of junk
If these are so worth saving im having a sale on empty cabs for $10 on 3- 20 to 3 -23
lets see if you even attempt to save just one
as far as comment on some of the games i put back together i know 4 people cant fit in front of that turtles it has 4 sticks to choose each of the 4 characters when was the last time you actually saw 4 people in front a game playing it who paid to play it
again a comment on that taito water swelled cab if that looked restorable to you i have a great deal for ya
and no im not a goth guy
its a theme the boneyard dont strain yourself trying to figure it out
http://TheArcadeboneyard.com
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The guy's censored by saint. :censored:
ARCADIAC!
here is the link to the empty cab page
http://www.thearcadeboneyard.com/EmptyCabinets.html
looks like your censored by saint
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That jungle king was totally restorable.
maybe. i remember there was a furore over a defender (i think) that shared a similar fate. might have even been the same guy. anyway, once you looked closer, it really was a write off. you could see the edges were all swollen from water ingress.
at the volume at which this guy is destroying them, after stripping them for parts, theres no way hes taking a closer look or even bothering to restore. hes basically bragging about being an arcade chop shop and the pictures show he doesnt care about arcades at all and thinks its "cool" to ignite them.
the volume is currently at 10 not quite a devastating blow to the arcade hobby
in the years ive been into arcade games ive restored or repaired more games than the average hobbiest by far
used to sell games retail and would get out about 1 to 5 a week back years ago in the north east
as far as that defender cab it is still available so is the dig dug gorf tempest come buy them and restore them
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The guy's censored by saint. :censored:
ARCADIAC!
here is the link to the empty cab page
http://www.thearcadeboneyard.com/EmptyCabinets.html
looks like your the dck
:blah: :blah: :blah: ::)
Go censored by saint
Man you sure are gonna drum up some business here with that attitude!
Boycott this censored by saint, y'all, he's only here to rattle the cage.
Don't feed the Troll!
ARCADIAC!
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I'll restore as many cabs as your willing to send to me at no cost. I cant support a your business for what you do, and Im not gonna pay shipping on an empty cab from Florida to Maryland.
Sugar coat and spin it all you want, arcade machines are fading very fast, and you arent exactly part of the solution.
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Drama queens, the lot of ya!
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Am I the only one who is reading that guy's posts in Boomhauer's voice?
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My biggest problem with ---meecrob--- is that he spams up craigslist with his crap. He's even posted in the Boise CL. Of course I flag that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- immediately but come on man... give it a rest.
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the volume is currently at 10 not quite a devastating blow to the arcade hobby
Yeah, you and the rest of the so called "old timers" from back in the day that have been in the biz for X number of years, yada, yada, yada, are all doing the same thing ........
Now do the math.
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I'm not taking sides here but I have been over to this fellows place and have made some purchases from him and he is really nice fellow.
His storage trailers have fans to control humidity and keep things cooler and prices are reasonable.
Some of the cabs may look ok in a pic but in person there is pretty bad damage the humidity in Florida is killer on particle board and alot of these units are placed near beaches and the likes with salt air that corrodes badly the boards.
In north Florida there is hardly any place to get anything arcade related he fills a niche.