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Ramtek's Trivia promoter
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Reged: 09/21/03
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Loc: southern CA, US
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Re: I can kind of understand why so many beautiful classic arcade cabinets were smashed and trashed.
10/21/16 07:47 PM
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>Imagine in the day after the arcade collapse, and you had all these giant heavy-ass
>cabinets nobody wanted. When the resale value is less than the cost of shipping them, it
>makes selling them difficult if not impossible. If you were a pure business man without
>the nostalgia and love for the game, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to just throw that old
>Computer Space in the dumpster than it is to store it waiting for a buyer who can pick
>it up.
Unfortunately true. I give credit to those [including rental vendors] that have been willing to hold on to various 1970s era cabs and also to older generations that enjoyed playing those specific 1970s era games and were willing to keep the cabs in working condition as long as possible.
>Its the love of the games that keeps them alive now,
Same can be said regarding various computer software / console software as well since various emulators are emulating computers, consoles, and handheld games. Truckloads of software still in need of being found and preserved [from fragile diskettes] if even possible.
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