Dear Atari

[LyonsArcade]

Anybody ever moved a 3 gun 'revolution x' ? OR, that crazy ass Street Fighter 1 Capcom cabinet?

 

[compyislife]

Anybody ever moved a 3 gun 'revolution x' ? OR, that crazy ass Street Fighter 1 Capcom cabinet?

I used to have a 2-Gun model, and it made me HATE stairs.

 

[JoshBrown80]

for some reason out of all my cabs my outrun upright is the one that seems the heaviest and has also injured me both times i have tried to move it....kinda surprising to me.. and no it doesnt have a cashbox full of quarters adding weight...

 

[SuperGunGuru]

for some reason out of all my cabs my outrun upright is the one that seems the heaviest and has also injured me both times i have tried to move it....kinda surprising to me.. and no it doesnt have a cashbox full of quarters adding weight...

Ah yes I remember moving the Out Run.

 

[jawhn]

I'm shocked I'm the first to bring up the Nintendo Vs. Dual upright.

I *almost* completely unloaded it from my truck. I would have, but my neighbor demanded that her college student son help me.

He stole my glory. I had that cab on its back and ready to slide / pivot to the ground when he showed up. Ah well.

 

[gutsman004]

I remember moving the Dig Dug game I had.Big time pain in the ass. The only cabs I really don't mind moving are the Nintendo cabs. Nintendo cabs are awesome.

 

[LeeB99]

Williams cabs were favorites for conversions back in the late 80's and early 90's due to the fact that they are made from lightweight plywood and are MUCH easier to move than the Atari cabs. This is one of the reasons why Robotrons are harder to find than most "regular" production classics. I had to re-convert mine from a "World Series Baseball" because I had to give up finding an original unit that hadn't been converted...

 

[LyonsArcade]

I used to have a 2-Gun model, and it made me HATE stairs.

Yeah, right! They had this neat little feature though, the marquee area folded backwards, behind the machine... so if you did that, it shifted the weight a little bit and made it easier to move. Still heavy as hell, though.

The Capcom "Street Fighter" cabinet wasn't necessarily the heaviest, but with that crazy control panel and the way the cabinet was shaped, you couldn't pick it up! The only place to grab it was from the back, but you couldn't tilt it back because the 100 pound control panel hanging off the front of it.

 

[Quazimoto]

Zaxxon,congo bongo cabs are like draging a 400lb 5 year old up the stairs when they dont want to go to bed. A dedicated Golden tee cabinet is so friggin heavy you cant even tilt it back without the chance of shooting your right nut across the room. I have takin notes on the games that you all say are super heavy and with refrain from purchasing them.

 

[modessitt]

Environmental discs of TRON...

Tru dat. Took five of us to put one on the truck using a lift gate. One to guide it in, one to operate the gate, and 3 to lift the other end up as it went up.

But this is the heaviest game I've ever had to move upstairs:

 

[MadocOwain]

Notes from my "Oregon Deal", moving some 50-60 vids, pinballs and a couple of jukeboxes.. http://www.madocowain.com/Arcade/TheDeal/deal_3.html

The truck ramps arrived, and we successfully moved everything up them and into the truck. As you could see from the slideshow pictures, Bobo and I did the majority of the heavy moving. Here's the order of pain:

Jukebox: "Oh dear god this thing is GRUUUUUUNNNNNNNTTTTTTT *gasping* heavy!"
Sprint 2: "What's a hernia feel like?"
Atari cabs: "I *GRUNT* F*CKING *GRUNT* HATE *GRUNT* ATARI!"
Stern cabs: "F*cking STERN cabinet"
Bally: "Hey, I think this used to be a Pac-Man!"
Nintendo: "I've got this one!" "No, I've got it" "No, it's my turn" *SCUFFLE*
Pinball: "Let's not use the dolly, I looked at it cross-eyed and it almost collapsed."