Op Raid: March 2014

[VaderGB]

I had been watching this progress even before joining great stuff. Olly looked like a kid in a sweet shop.

 

[theory]

What a score of cabs, great work! The £1 a play Hang on caught my eye. The reason for the death of arcades right there

10p per play Lethal Enforcers is much better price

 

[Milky]

Great haul guys! I'd love to get to one of these sometime if it's a bit closer to the Midlands... 

Don't let distance put you off. I lived miles away but I had coffee, cruise control and Billy Ocean to pass the hours away. Perfick!

I hadn't been to [location] for nearly 30 years either, has changed a lot!

 

[Retroruss]

Looks like you all had a good day, some nice machines and some nice parts found.

 

[Milky]

I took about 50 pix. Will post them over the weekend.

 

[ben76]

I took about 50 pix. Will post them over the weekend.

- Ben

 

[Belike]

Well done guys.

A pic from the Super Loco flyer would be great.

 

[stryker]

Stryker waited all weekend for the pictures....

 

[Alpha1]

I'll do it today. I have downloaded them, just need to convert to <1Mb pngs and then upload. Stay tuned.

 

[vib_ribbon]

so what was the single best thing to come out of this rescue?

 

[Milky]

so what was the single best thing to come out of this rescue?

Without wanting to sound too "touchy/feely"; I would say primarily it was hanging out with Dan/Olly/Olly and the Ops for a day. Some good stories and loads of knowledge sharing

over a cuppa or two.

A very close second was everytime we found another box/corner/cabinet and the expectation of what it might contain. Seriously; we were like kids at Christmas!

 

[Milky]

...or, from a cab/parts/paperwork perspective: the rarez flyers and the monitor bezels.

 

[vib_ribbon]

i thought that might be the answer.

any stories you can pass on about this op then? like how long he was in the business for and how long has these machines been sitting there until you reached out to him?

 

[muddymusic]

so what was the single best thing to come out of this rescue?

Without wanting to sound too "touchy/feely"; I would say primarily it was hanging out with Dan/Olly/Olly and the Ops for a day. Some good stories and loads of knowledge sharing

over a cuppa or two.

A very close second was everytime we found another box/corner/cabinet and the expectation of what it might contain. Seriously; we were like kids at Christmas!

I'm with you there (massive gayerz the lot of us

) it was just great to hang out with everyone (Martin/Martin/Dan/Olly/Olly weird huh?) and hear the tales from the op and his wife how things were back in the day, and how exciting it all was when they first saw Space Invaders etc. right through all the boom years of the arcade.

The bezels box was very exciting, I just kept pulling out one cool thing after the next and looking through all the flyers was awesome.

 

[Milky]

massive gayerz the lot of us

Bromance

 

[Alpha1]

Pix as promised.

This is the order I took them in. Some of them are a little disturbing, especially the one of muddymusic and that Namco marquee.

Alpha12014-03-31 15:22:56

 

[Alpha1]

Infact he's pointing a pink gun at me in one of them too

 

[muddymusic]

Yeah check my big pink gun

 

[Milky]

Aaah. A rare picture of a heavily over-coffee'd Milky.

Crazy man says what?

Milky2014-03-31 15:53:02

 

[Alpha1]