Arcade destruction

**retroshaun** · 01-31-2011, 09:17 AM

This is hard to watch... hope its not been posted before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PlGhKuE1Rc

**miner2049er** · 01-31-2011, 11:05 AM

It would be a shame if one of them got their shirt snagged on a falling machine.

**Gordon Bennett** · 01-31-2011, 12:59 PM

They say that it is to show that some games are not good enough for them to sell. Which to me (and no doubt to many of you) completely backfired. It looks like people with a complete and callous disregard for classic games to me. Why people who sell them would want to publicise themselves in this way baffles me.

**JoeJet** · 01-31-2011, 02:33 PM

If you want to read more about both ends of the argument... you can read up here:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g...5a839d0a160cdf

**SubaruBrat** · 01-31-2011, 02:38 PM

This shop is know for premium prices. If you look at the games as they come down you see Marquees, glass, monitors, side rails, etc that were all useful parts until they hit. I think it was more of a case of they couldn't sell them for what they wanted to. I don't know about the "couldn't give them away" idea. I bet we could find enough people on our forum that would have picked up project games. As for the no longer repairable idea, I have restored games that were FAR rougher than those.

**Leathco** · 01-31-2011, 03:41 PM

Perfectly usable parts, in some cases machines that were definately repairable, destroyed for no good reason. What a douche. He coulda sold these at 100 bucks a pop easy. Or, heaven forbid, GIVE them away as units in need of repair.

**retroshaun** · 01-31-2011, 04:04 PM

Yep the Tempest looked pretty decent to me, if for nothing other than a very nice looking mame cab - whatever you think of mame'ing a classic cab, its better then smashing it up.

**wongojack** · 01-31-2011, 08:53 PM

I bet they think - "we've had these forever and nobody wants them."

It takes a lot of effort to pull useable parts, test them and then try to gauge their value. I've tried to do that for tons of old PC equipment and eventually you realize that the stuff only has value if you think that your time is worthless. They've got a lot working against them if they think junk farming is going to be profitable in the first place . . . Too bad this equipment is so big that you can't ship it around the world or they would have easily found a home somewhere. It would be nice if someone would hurry up and invent the teleporter so we can all get the arcade machines we want instantly.

All that being said - what arcade afficianado is going to be able to watch this without their anus twitching? Somone on those comments pointed out that if they are trying to get more customers with this stunt, how could their target market possibly be impressed?