Feb 08, 2020 20:00:00

The story of men who burn their souls to rescue abandoned retro arcade games

An arcade game that sleeps deep inside a ruined leisure facility or warehouse Housing ( Today ) Is just a junk for the owner, but a treasure trove for retro arcade game enthusiasts.

The Arcade Blogger, a site specializing in arcade games in the UK, summarizes ' Arcade Raid ' where such manias discover arcade games.

The Arcade Blogger By Tony Temple
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◆ Remains of an old arcade gamer
Former oil mining engineer Pete Davis of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was one of the first members of UKVAC , a forum dedicated to arcade games, working on the forum under the alias of Invadar. Mr. Davis, who has a deep knowledge of the technical aspects of arcade games, said that he was respected as a living figure.

As a result, UKVAC members were deeply saddened by the news that Davis died in 2015. And at the same time came the question of what would happen to Davis' collection. A member of the forum who noticed that Davis's son was selling an arcade game at an auction, immediately contacted Davis's family and said, 'How can I maximize respect for the deceased's will?' Was discussed.

As a result, Mr. Davis's collection has been talked about in the direction that 'The arcade game community that Mr. Davis has been socializing for many years will pick up at a fair price'. So the two advance squads visited Mr. Davis's house to list the collection. Later, 10 members drove vans and trucks to collect the collection.

Universal cosmic aliens and ...

Excavated Taito's

dunson block .

Although part of the case was severely degraded ...

He was in excellent condition overall.

In this way, the collection loved by old arcade gamers was successfully returned to the arcade game community. Members who returned were reported to have had inexhaustible tea and a large amount of fish and chips from Mr. Davis's family.

A total of 63 cases and parts were discovered during the arcade raid. Click to see the list in a large image.

◆ Rescue from the luxury liner Duke of Lancaster
The luxury liner

Duke of Lancaster was built in Belfast , Northern Ireland, in 1955. The Duke of Lancaster was retired in August 1979, with many owners switching and serving as passenger ships and car carriers. After that, it was fixed on land and enjoyed people as a leisure facility 'The Fun Ship'.

The Duke of Lancaster was abandoned without dismantling when the facility was closed due to legal issues. The photo of the ship, which was uploaded to the

28DaysLater , a community of enthusiast enthusiasts in 2009, reminded the old ship of its renewed interest.

Oliver Moazzezi of UKVAC, who noticed that the arcade game brought in during the leisure era was left untouched, said the post office in Llanerch-Y-Mor, the port city where the Duke of Lancaster sleeps, and the local I contacted the local council and looked for the owner. However, the owner was contacted by John Lowry in January 2011, eight months after the search began.

Moazzezi, who visited the Duke of Lancaster with two friends in February 2011, said at that time, `` I can not believe that such a game has existed for 30 years without being seen. The games there were ignorant of their fate, asking themselves when to play again, and staying here every day. '

Moazzezi, who had just entered a business talk, was abandoned after eight months of negotiations, as other stakeholders were sniffing on the valuable collection and the seller offered an outrageous price. However, apparently no buyers were found, and four months after the negotiations broke down, Moazzezi was notified that 'sellers are looking for buyers in the market.' Moazzezi called the seller in the mid spinal reflex and settled the deal. Moazzezi was not contacted directly because the seller has lost contact with Moazzezi.

The seller has given Moazzezi only 10 days, as the Duke of Lancaster was ahead of maintenance work. Moazzezi rushed to arrange a transport van and a crane for unloading work, and gathered on the Duke of Lancaster with 15 friends.

Someone was stealing the window frame of the ship, and some of the enclosures were flooded.

The unloading work went smoothly.

Thus, an arcade game that had been dusting on a derelict ship for nearly 30 years could see the light of day again.

More than 50 units have been rescued in this arcade raid.

An arcade raid that has traveled 1000km one way across the sea
It was in September 2017 that Tony Temple, an arcade game collector living in the UK, described it as 'a memorable arcade raid, good or bad.' The motivation was that she was consulted by a British woman saying, 'I purchased a former commercial facility in western France ...' A woman who went to France and toured the property witnessed that the arcade game housing was tightly stored there, and asked Temple to retrieve it.

As expected, Temple shrugged over the Dover Strait, but when she saw a picture of an arcade game from a woman, she decided that she had to go.

Temple and 10 other collectors and five trucks travel through the Channel Channel tunnel to France.

Upon arriving at the site, the building there was in much worse condition than I had heard at first, and was on the verge of collapse. When I looked up, I could see the sky through the hole in the roof.

The floor on the second floor has collapsed and is in a stairwell.

Next to Sun Electronics'

Speak & Rescue , which has been abandoned for more than 25 years, was a French-only rare enclosure called Grand Crash from French game company Jeutel. The red pillar in the foreground is attached instead of the collapsed pillar, but it is not used because it is set on the beer box.

Therefore, we carefully carried out unloading work so that only one person could enter the second floor at a time.

One of the enclosures that Temple has focused on is Atari's

Battlezone . The control panel has buttons that seem to be from another arcade game Asteroids , and it seems that some modifications have been made.

Video Pinball , a beautiful product that you can't imagine 30 years ago ...

Midway Games

M-4

Sega of

Spaceship also get.

However, Sega's

jet rocket was the one that delighted Temple the most on the day. It seemed to Mr. Temple that it was a game of thought, and the pleasure of confirming that it actually worked later was all over.

Due to lack of time and security, some could not be transported out, but overall it became a fruitful arcade raid.

◆ Arcade Raid in Japan
Most foreign arcade game enclosures are made of wood, but plastic enclosures that became popular in Japan in the 1980s are called 'candy' by overseas collectors.

Alex Myers, an American, played the arcade raid in Japan. Myers, whose girlfriend's grandmother runs a property in Taiwan, is told by her girlfriend about an old amusement facility in Chiba Prefecture. Immediately was waiting for Mr. Myers, who visited the local is, Sega of general purpose enclosure

Aero City 49 units and Astro City six, housing six of Namco, of Jaleco pony mark 2 is one, for a total of 62 units did.

There are only amusement facilities in the center of the red-light district, mahjong games and ...

Many adult games have been discovered.

There were also ordinary fighting games such as

Street Fighter ZERO2 .

Mrs. Myers, who took over the entire casing inside the facility, said that he divided the money he sold with his girlfriend and his family.

◆ Arcade raid in Czech Republic
Jan Orna, director of the

Arcade Museum in Unhost, a town 20 km west of Prague, reported on the arcade raid in the Czech Republic, far from the UK. Orna said, old silver mining town of Pushiburamu and heard the information that is sleeping retro arcade game, we went to local along with four companions.

It was discovered in Gyrus of Konami, Donkey Kong 3 in Nintendo, and Dig Dag in Namco.