Abandoned hotel

[Superully]

some of the floor there have indeed collapsed, but the room where most of the cabs are is at ground level, although in a higher section of the hotel. that place is a maze!

 

[Alpha1]

As promised here's some more photos that I just pulled off my desktop PC. These are the photos Superully sent me after his first visit.

Just finding the original Flickr feed now off some archived data.Alpha12014-01-05 22:27:58

 

[Alpha1]

Just for the record, I think a lot of this stuff is more than salvageable. I mean most are just missing a monitor chassis or PCB. Some are complete.

I would have turned up with a huge van and just emptied the entire lot.

 

[Alpha1]

This is the picture that I first saw on Flickr. I was thinking "WTF that looks just like the Pinbot chick????"

Low and behold the graffiti artists and squatters were using the pins and vids as inspiration haha.

The rest of the photos are still in the Flickr stream here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cultphotos/3727583094/in/photostream/

Enjoy!

 

[OTTOTHEMADANDEVIL]

Did we get a location? Ive only just got back from work? Whens the party

 

[Superully]

Just for the record, I think a lot of this stuff is more than salvageable. I mean most are just missing a monitor chassis or PCB. Some are complete.

sprry to shatter your dreams, oll, but almost NONE of the cabs is salvagable, but most of them have been destroyed / vandalized / emptied. there are still parts like power supplies or coin door which one COULD get out, but apart from that, the place is an arcade tomb!

I would have turned up with a huge van and just emptied the entire lot.

no, you wouldn't have

! you would have been stopped by an iron gate with a lock!!! from there, the "game room" is more than 500 meters away, you have to traverse countless stairs and rough terrain which makes getting even a single machine out close to impossible. apart from that, police is patrolling the premises! good luck

 

[stryker]

what happened in the end? would love to know!

 

[Stevros]

i'm an urban explorer.

Rules.

Take nothing but photographs!

Leave nothing but footprints!

Tut tut tut.

 

[Bods]

I'd fail at that then

Can't leave something there rotting away, neither can the GF, while I was asking to help me get the machine from the decaying hotel/hospital, she was digging out arcade pcbs from the rubbish and got some 4, double dragon 3 being one of them combatribes, a Capcom? and a bootleg.

 

[Bensonrad]

Eventually these places get bulldozed, so best to fill you boots when you get a chance. Just take the photo's first

 

[jengineer]

yep, fill your boots and then scarper, it would all get skipped if you didn't, I also don't see the point in taking photographs and then going back after 2 years and saying 'ooooh look some of the items have gone, thats a shame...'

all depends what your hobby is I suppose...
jengineer2014-01-21 21:18:23

 

[Guests]

yep, fill your boots and then scarper, it would all get skipped if you didn't, I also don't see the point in taking photographs and then going back after 2 years and saying 'ooooh look some of the items have gone, thats a shame...'

all depends what your hobby is I suppose...

EXACTLY JENGINEER !!! Thanks for having the power to say that!

IT IS A SHAME

Totally what I think.
We are the watchers, we have to save the stuff....and not only what falls by it self in our hands....and not only vector games are worth getting saved!

Going there and rip the machines....taking PCB´s, monitors and marquees as trophies (as he showed-off at DLF) and than calling others vandals is most arrogant and ignorant thing I have ever seen!!!

Take the machine and restore it, or let them the way they are!

It takes real men of coure to save arcade-machines from the hell.