30 year old Cigarette burns...confessions anyone?

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As I was restoring another Space Invaders this afternoon, it pained me to throw away a near perfect original cp with an unsightly a row of yellow cigarette burns.

It got me to thinking,
have I ever seen a Pole Position dash board that was not riddled by burns?
no, not yet.

So here is my first stupid poll;

Who here is guilty of setting a lit cigarette down to smolder and disfigure a classic?

cmon.. ya know it has been weighing on your conscience
 
I never smoked back then Ritchie; I waited until I was 19...my Pole Position is littered with burns, too. Most of my games are. Jeez there's even one on the periscope of my Sea Wolf. Yeah that's pretty smart, let it burn right next to where your eyes are! There's even a FULL length cigarette burn on top of the game; must've forgot it when they quit playing. Oh by the way I quit smoking in 1996, bad freekin' habit
 
I smoked back in the day (for 13 years and gave it up due to a severe sickness) and yes i am guilty of laying my cig down to play games....thats why i dont get to mad when i have cig burns on games, i just go well she has had a rough life and not its up to me to fix her up...Its my own personal hell, i messed stuff up back in the day only to repair that stuff for the rest of my life..
 
Never did but find cleaning the old burns such as a little yellowed, slightly melted spot on a DK plex always warrant the same thing.....the smell. Amazing after so many years, a little scrub session with some steel wool and cleaner and BAM...instant cigarette stench. Crazy.
 
putting my hand up too , albeit they were not classics back then and owned by some fat bastard OP ;) . we never got shit for it so we just kept on doing it
 
hey if all arcades would have invested in the 2$ ashtray that mounted on the cab then there would be far less burn's + i think the burns kinda add to the nostilga
rember the days when you could smoke around 50 under age kids rember when you could smoke in the car with your new born baby sititng upo frnt not in a car seat
oh i miss the good ol days screw this world we are living in now we are all going to end up giant pusssies the way things are going
 
actually, out of all the games i've ever owned, only one, combatribes, ever had burns on it. had a piece of plexi over the cp that was all burned though, so it wasn't that big a deal.
 
Ya know it seems crazy, but the days of the arcade were REALLY a different era. It sucks that there are cigarette burns on the machines, but it's crazy to think that in most arcades, you could smoke and play a game. I remember people smoking in the mall, but most stores prohibited it inside their area. Long gone are the days of the smoke filled arcades!
-Mark

I can't imagine the ass kicking someone would get if they laid a lit cigarette on one of Richie's restored games in his arcade!
 
i just want to know who the hell puts out there cigs on the JOYSTICK BALLTOP???!!?!?!?!? I picked up 2 cocktails and had to order 4 new balltops/shafts cause of cig burns :(
 
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