arcade hallucinations...

vintagegamer

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Every day when driving to work, I pass by a small apartment complex. Parked one of the roads is this guy's old beat up pickup truck, and every single day he's got a new load of stuff to take to either the recycler or the dump. In the almost 2 years that I've been seeing the truck, I wondered if the day would come when I ever saw an old arcade game lying in the back..

This morning, as always, I could see the truck from a block away from the turn that I make. Today I could see something in the back of the truck, lying on the side, about the size of an arcade game!! I thought maybe today was the day, and during that short distance of road between me and the truck, I quickly figured out how I could whip out a piece of paper, write my name and contact info on it, and leave it on the windshield of his truck. I might, just might, have a shot at saving another game from near death!

I made the turn, which always puts the guy's truck on my left side view- with excitement I pulled up to see what it was…


It was an old refrigerator.



Anyone else ever have these arcade hallucinations?
 
lol yeah... all the time sadly.

Was cruising by a bowling alley that closed recently and had to flip a quick u-turn cause I swore I saw a couple of cabs out back just sitting there. It was a dumpster. doh.

Then one night I had a dream that I scored a bunch of early 80s machines from a guy working out of a storage unit. I woke up the next day and was pissed when I walked into my garage and noticed the spot where I put my new games in my dream was empty. In fact i'm starting to look at that dream as nightmare the more I run it around in my mind.
 
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