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16 September 2022, 04:36
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Old but interesting
Saw this article - a few years old but i wonder if the machines are still there:
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...welsh-11447766 |
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16 September 2022, 06:13
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I was thinking you decided to describe yourself... and managed to post this message here instead of Tinder.
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16 September 2022, 09:18
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Amazingly, the arcade cabs seem to be still there. Guess it's not easy to scavenge them from such location.
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16 September 2022, 12:47
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I've got a new byline
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Interesting story, thanks. Those groups who do covert explorations/filming of creepy abandoned theme parks need to investigate this one. I'd watch that.
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16 September 2022, 14:35
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I read about this many years ago how a group of people did the donkeywork to get the machines out of there. I think most/all of it is cleared out now.
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16 September 2022, 14:55
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"Old but interesting" - that's pretty much what we deal in here
 Seeing the arcade machines brings a tear to the eye. |
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16 September 2022, 20:05
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We are indeed living in a decadent and Gibsonian era where ultramodern hightech live with relics of more prosperous times and over the shoulders of giants
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17 September 2022, 05:55
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The corrosive nature of the sea air probably rendered all those electronics as being on the brink of beyond repair at best.
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17 September 2022, 11:43
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For the record. DUKE OF LANCASTER arcade games.
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17 September 2022, 23:03
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A deal was done with the owner of these machines were all salvaged and removed from the ship on the 4th February 2012.
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17 September 2022, 23:06
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Do you know where they are now?
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17 September 2022, 23:09
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There is this here where i live which i will check out:
https://en-gb.facebook.com/electriccircusarcade Also near here is the retrocomputermuseum in Leicester - i am going next saturday to the legendary gathering |
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17 September 2022, 23:15
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About 12 collectors in the UK and Europe took them and they went into the arcade collectors community. As a collector myself it’s nice to see these being saved and not left to ruin like so many machines from back in the day.
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17 September 2022, 23:32
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I shall hopefully play some here: https://www.revivalretroevents.co.uk/ Glad to see this event slowly coming back - it's a really fab one and i have been twice now, i think it is just a smaller one this time as a post covid test but well worth the visit Also a good museum in Swindon and there was a retro pub in Worcester that had a few machines including ghoulsnghosts |
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25 September 2022, 17:25
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Very interesting article, thanks for this.
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