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SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: abzman2000 on May 15, 2008, 12:01:07 am ---    This may seem like an exaggeration but it broke my heart to see the master copy of "death race" get destroyed, and all that remains is the coin door.  I disagree with some people that seem to think all that matters is the software, and that without the electronics and side art a cab is just a box, many of those "boxes" have serial numbers stamped into them, so when 472 is destroyed it does not exist anymore, and we are one step closer to them all being gone.  I may be a purist but unlike animals with several hundred left arcade games cannot be bred to produce a healthy thriving population again, no matter how hard you try.

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That was my post. I regret two things about that auction, that I couldn't grab the coin door from the auction and that I didn't think to keep track of who the ---smurf--- was that destroyed the cab.

patrickl:
Isn't it just because we love these things that it is so important to us. What if the generation that played in the arcades dies out? In 50 years or so, who will care about old arcade games still?

Jack Burton:
The number of people in the hobby will slowly dwindle, but I don't think the games will ever stop being fun.  As long as MAME and emulation is around for people to play for free there will always be the notion of building  a cab or restoring one.

At some point people will have to reconstruct the components from scatch.

Who's with me building a vector monitor in 2020? 



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