Dear Atari

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Dear Atari,

Why are your cabinets so fucking heavy? All my other games say you're fat. Even the pinball machine is amazed at how much weight you're carrying.

Your heavy ass has broken two of my front wooden steps, and my wife will no longer help move your portly mass. I now have to sneak you in the back door, alone, under the cover of night, and my back can't take much more of the pushing and pulling.

Sincerely,

The idiot who's moved a system 2 cabinet four times in the last 8 days.
 
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I used to think the Atari cabs were obnoxiously heavy, but then I had to move a Time Crisis 4. Atari cabs seem so much lighter now.
 
It seems Atari went out and asked what is the heaviest wood material you have that will also soak up the most water if it comes in contact with it making it twice as heavy.
 
My Super Sprint and Sprint 2 are by far the heaviest cabs I have so I feel ya. The Taitos are a little better, at least smaller and easier to handle. Nintendos are great, I had forgotten until Matt and I unloaded the raffle DK tonight. - Barry
 
atari's are heavy but spy hunter is much heavier and akward than any atari I've ever moved. And for it's size qbert is pretty damn heavy.
 
That is because they send you flying through the air half of the time when you try to set them back down. :)

There is truth to that statement. A 350lb arcade game one one end of the dolly, and a 145lb college student on the business end. Funny things happen.
 
This may be why I only own one Atari game. Its also why I rarely move my killer instinct.
Pacmania cab was made by Atari. Its also pretty heavy and shaped in such a way that you have to dolly it from the side.
 
I had to gain 20lbs to have enough weight/leverage
to tip my PP cab backwards ;-)

I sold the game so now I have to go on diet !

Steph
 
The 4 slots red NeogeoMVS weights something insane like 750 pounds; yet the cab looks smaller than regular games. It's just taller.
 
Let's not forget about TRON. Not only is it heavy, but the cabinet comes out in the middle, placing your dolly away from the bottom/back of the machine. My "Big Blue" Qsound is also a monster. I'm pretty sure that is is the tallest cabinet that I have. When I bought it at the auction, one of the movers that worked for the auction company saw me rolling it through the building on a dolly by myself and said "Did you get that thing on the dolly WITHOUT HELP??". He was obviously surprised. I told him that I was used to moving heavy things...
 
System II games really should have wheels.

Dedicated Golden Tee FORE! cabs suck, too. Ugh.
 
Of all the cabinets I have moved I thought that Terminator 2 was the heaviest vs its size, I think it is made from depleted uranium. My Propcycle is the heaviest, but it looks heavier than it is. Still the bike base is 1200 pounds by itself which I had to dead lift past the threshold at the bottom of my bilco door. I didn't know how heavy it was until I looked in the manual. Had I known I wouldn't have even tried it! Good thing I didn't :D
 
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