Author Topic: Boneyard Arcade Burning (Read 7151 times)

testicle187 · « **on:** February 15, 2009, 09:29:43 pm »

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

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #1 on:** February 15, 2009, 10:04:31 pm »

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)

erictrumpet · « **Reply #2 on:** February 15, 2009, 10:19:47 pm »

Check out the luxury custom home with swimming pool in the background. Classy!

"Shoot Cletus, ain't it fun burnin' stuff? Yee haw!"

Malenko · « **Reply #3 on:** February 15, 2009, 10:48:13 pm »

That jungle king was totally restorable.

calder · « **Reply #4 on:** February 15, 2009, 11:40:56 pm »

when i first saw this website i cried

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #5 on:** February 16, 2009, 01:54:57 am »

Quote from: Malenko on February 15, 2009, 10:48:13 pm

That jungle king was totally restorable.

Agreed...... that would NOT have gone in the pile here.

SavannahLion · « **Reply #6 on:** February 16, 2009, 01:56:42 am »

Quote from: Malenko on February 15, 2009, 10:48:13 pm

That jungle king was totally restorable.

Doesn't matter. If you check that site's home page, you'll find this:

Quote

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.

Arcadiac · « **Reply #7 on:** February 16, 2009, 01:07:52 pm »

The guy's censored by saint.

ARCADIAC!

danny_galaga · « **Reply #8 on:** February 17, 2009, 04:23:55 am »

Quote from: Malenko on February 15, 2009, 10:48:13 pm

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.

Malenko · « **Reply #9 on:** February 17, 2009, 10:51:46 am »

Quote from: danny_galaga on February 17, 2009, 04:23:55 am

Quote from: Malenko on February 15, 2009, 10:48:13 pm
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.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #10 on:** February 17, 2009, 10:58:26 am »

What some call arson, I call murder.

RayB · « **Reply #11 on:** February 17, 2009, 11:51:47 am »

What you call murder, I call marketing.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #12 on:** February 17, 2009, 12:00:45 pm »

Touche`

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #13 on:** February 17, 2009, 12:45:31 pm »

What you call marketing I call just wanting to make an easy quick buck.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #14 on:** February 18, 2009, 02:21:39 am »

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on February 17, 2009, 12:45:31 pm

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...

Mauzy · « **Reply #15 on:** February 18, 2009, 08:39:21 am »

Quote from: danny_galaga on February 18, 2009, 02:21:39 am

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on February 17, 2009, 12:45:31 pm
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...

SavannahLion · « **Reply #16 on:** February 18, 2009, 01:07:27 pm »

Quote from: pinballjim on February 18, 2009, 09:29:55 am

Quote from: Mauzy on February 18, 2009, 08:39:21 am
What you call Amway we call Quixtar...

What you call Quixtar I call Madoff.

Seems you had a typo there.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #17 on:** February 18, 2009, 02:43:34 pm »

Quote from: pinballjim on February 18, 2009, 09:29:55 am

What you call Quixtar I call a multi-level marketing scam.

What you call multi-level marketing I call pyramid scheme.

CheffoJeffo · « **Reply #18 on:** February 18, 2009, 02:59:02 pm »

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on February 18, 2009, 02:43:34 pm

What you call multi-level marketing I call pyramid scheme.

What you call pyramid scheme I call bailout.

RayB · « **Reply #19 on:** February 18, 2009, 04:19:11 pm »

What you call bailout I call stimulus package.

knave · « **Reply #20 on:** February 18, 2009, 04:30:51 pm »

What you call stimulus package I call Bankruptcy.

pinballwizard79 · « **Reply #21 on:** February 18, 2009, 08:51:25 pm »

I know you are but what am I?

Mauzy · « **Reply #22 on:** February 18, 2009, 11:21:25 pm »

I know he is but what are you?

danny_galaga · « **Reply #23 on:** February 19, 2009, 12:19:03 am »

Quote from: knave on February 18, 2009, 04:30:51 pm

What you call stimulus package I call Bankruptcy.

and then we start all over

fin de siecle...

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #24 on:** February 19, 2009, 12:29:14 am »

And what you cal fin de siecle I call something we all ~~need~~ can use.

EDIT:

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #25 on:** February 19, 2009, 11:21:58 am »

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on February 19, 2009, 12:29:14 am

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!

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #26 on:** February 19, 2009, 11:53:54 am »

Quote from: HarumaN on February 19, 2009, 11:21:58 am

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on February 19, 2009, 12:29:14 am
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!

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.

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #27 on:** February 19, 2009, 12:01:51 pm »

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on February 19, 2009, 11:53:54 am

Quote from: HarumaN on February 19, 2009, 11:21:58 am
Quote from: Kevin Mullins on February 19, 2009, 12:29:14 am
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!

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.

knave · « **Reply #28 on:** February 19, 2009, 12:20:56 pm »

I want a cookie but my gov'ment monies ain't here yet.

vidkiller13 · « **Reply #29 on:** February 27, 2009, 08:18:54 pm »

Quote from: erictrumpet on February 15, 2009, 10:19:47 pm

Check out the luxury custom home with swimming pool in the background. Classy!
"Shoot Cletus, ain't it fun burnin' stuff? Yee haw!"

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

Arcadiac · « **Reply #30 on:** February 27, 2009, 08:40:11 pm »

"Intelligent comments?"

He don't know us vewwy well do he? <---E. Fudd voice

Welcome cabinet slayer!

ARCADIAC!

daywane · « **Reply #31 on:** February 28, 2009, 03:15:50 pm »

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

Malenko · « **Reply #32 on:** February 28, 2009, 04:03:06 pm »

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.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #33 on:** February 28, 2009, 05:18:54 pm »

Quote from: Malenko on February 28, 2009, 04:03:06 pm

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.

Ummon · « **Reply #34 on:** March 05, 2009, 06:10:00 pm »

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.

Dartful Dodger · « **Reply #35 on:** March 05, 2009, 08:28:22 pm »

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.

SavannahLion · « **Reply #36 on:** March 06, 2009, 01:33:21 am »

Quote from: Dartful Dodger on March 05, 2009, 08:28:22 pm

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 is a prime example. AFAIK, there are two versions of the cabinet 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 (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?

vidkiller13 · « **Reply #37 on:** March 11, 2009, 11:06:06 pm »

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on February 28, 2009, 05:18:54 pm

Quote from: Malenko on February 28, 2009, 04:03:06 pm
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.

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

vidkiller13 · « **Reply #38 on:** March 11, 2009, 11:09:54 pm »

Quote from: Arcadiac on February 16, 2009, 01:07:52 pm

The guy's censored by saint.

ARCADIAC!

here is the link to the empty cab page
http://www.thearcadeboneyard.com/EmptyCabinets.html

looks like your censored by saint

vidkiller13 · « **Reply #39 on:** March 11, 2009, 11:18:42 pm »

Quote from: Malenko on February 17, 2009, 10:51:46 am

Quote from: danny_galaga on February 17, 2009, 04:23:55 am
Quote from: Malenko on February 15, 2009, 10:48:13 pm
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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