{"id":594,"date":"2008-09-23T19:22:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T03:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=594"},"modified":"2008-09-24T14:07:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T22:07:33","slug":"arcade-trailer-raid-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/09\/arcade-trailer-raid-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcade Trailer Raid, Day 1."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I decided to focus most of my game-playing time on classics, great games of previous generations that for one reason or another I&#8217;d missed.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I took that to its extreme.<\/p>\n<p>There are two things every arcade game nerd should do: attend an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superauctions.com\/pages\/home.htm\">auction<\/a>, and participate in a <a href=\"http:\/\/arcadeheroes.com\/2007\/10\/01\/video-arcade-warehouse-raid-2001\/\">warehouse raid<\/a>, the finding of an old stash of arcade cabinets, usually belonging to a former operator, and the retrieval adventure that follows. Visiting an auction is something one can plan, but warehouse raids requires luck, timing, and persistence. Fortunately, I stumbled across someone who had all three, and I got to ride along.<\/p>\n<p>It begins.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3200\/2873426844_8996f1dcdb.jpg\" title=\"Ray, with the empty truck\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cabinets were split up between two places, which made for a bit of a logistics puzzle. The smaller lot was a group of about a 10-15 cabinets in storage units, so we took care of those during the evening and night of the first day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3056\/2872453171_1b0cb906eb.jpg\" title=\"Storage unit one.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3218\/2884276074_288158fe2d.jpg\" title=\"Storage unit 2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3112\/2883437995_6a85808c24.jpg\" title=\"More storage unit 2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Out of this group, Ray (the one who got this whole thing rolling) took home a Star Wars cockpit, Q-bert, Ms Pac-Man, Mappy, Track n Field cocktail, Make Trax, the Pole Position cockpit, and a handful of others. There was also a Road Riot 2-player cockpit that a former coworker came by to pick up the next day.<\/p>\n<p>I took home a Xevious, the Neo MVS-2-13, and a Choplifter-in-an-I, Robot (missing the hall effect stick and boards, unfortunately). A Zombie Raid, Paperboy, Nintendo VS (Super Mario and Dr Mario), and Super Monaco GP are also in my garage waiting to be cleaned up and sold.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3006\/2872454147_d2dd342c98.jpg\" title=\"This thrilled my wife.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a bit of cleaning and rebuilding the guns, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcade-history.com\/?n=zombie-raid&#038;page=detail&#038;id=3257\">Zombie Raid<\/a> turned out to be in beautiful shape. A few cosmetic blemishes, but the guns work great and the monitor is bright and clear:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3079\/2873287804_4928a3dd8f.jpg\" title=\"Zombie Raid!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve ever mentioned it, but I am a very tall person.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3044\/2873302998_0116c02856.jpg\" title=\"I'm HUGE.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day two tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I decided to focus most of my game-playing time on classics, great games of previous generations that for one reason or another I&#8217;d missed. Last weekend I took that to its extreme. There are two things every arcade game nerd should do: attend an auction, and participate in a warehouse raid, the finding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,38,35,54,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcade","category-crap-i-buy","category-las-vegas","category-nostalgia","category-restoration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}