I stopped and visited Mike today (Friday) and he had people in and out of there checking out his vids and pins. He has a lot less games than he used to. I think he had about 18 uprights and about 4 cocktails left. The Gorf was in pretty good shape, needs a new PCB. He had 3 games in there that actually were working, the others are projects. I bought some misc parts from him and on the way out I was checking boxes and I scored a brand new (still in oem wrapper) Vision Pro MTG-2901 (thanks for selling it to me Mike)
I hate seeing these places go out as it's a reminder that the "Video Arcade" era is over. It's a collector/enthusiast hobby now. Mike is a great person and I'm glad to hear that he's going to stay in it as a hobby at home. He was telling me that he had over 400 machines when he had his route. Man, I can't even imagine where I would be able to place 400 machines TODAY.
Mike, good luck tomorrow..see you at CAX!
Guys, go an help Mike gid rid of his games. He has to be outta there by Monday.
Oh yea, PICs (on the monitor) or it didn't happen...