Games in back of truck > games in an arcade ?

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Funny how people react to games in the back of a truck but those same games on location get ignored. Ever pay attention to people around you on the street or highway when you are moving games. I get thumbs up, people honking, huge smiles. I feel like rolling down my window and telling them to put some damn quarters in a machine next time they see one somewhere if they think it's that exciting.

Strange phenomenon....
 
Maybe you are on to something. Just park your truck in a parking lot, get a long extension cord and profit. :D
 
In the midwest you wouldn't dare drive something very far without being covered.
No one on the road took a second glance at this item.
A few hours after I got off the interstate a flat line wind storm came through and devastated some areas.

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I've noticed that my neighbors light up like a Christmas tree when they see me unloading a new game. They come up, offer a hand (without actually doing anything but watch me unload), and then look longingly at the game and others I have there. I always let them play, of course, but it's funny how those exact games could be on Free Play at a gas station and they'd get passed right on by.
 
I always move my games in really quickly. I live in the city, but I bet only 2 people (houses) on my block know I have arcade games. And most of what I have was moved in during nights rather than days... because that's when I could get a buddy over to help me out!
 
I was that way too...my first realization was when i went to a buddy's house...and in the basement he had a data east star wars pin. I was AMAZED!! "You can have your own arcade game!?" I asked in astonishment. It never crossed my mind that I could own these machines and have them in my house. I just always assumed that they all belonged to businesses and were untouchable. Within a month I had my own star wars pin in my house...and within a year I had 5 arcades and my pin.
 
The best is when people see them while you are filling up and offer to buy them right off of the truck from you. And trust me when I say this, where I've been approached these are backwards hillbilly mofos asking to buy them so you know for a fact they'd pass them by in any other location.

Hell, I almost scored an elevator action from one guy who approached me. To be fair, when I do a haul it's in a 1993 Ford F-150 filled up with games, all of them standing up. So when I'm hauling games people see me coming lol.
 
Pretty funny phenomenon. I thought a guy was going to side swipe me as he kept trying to get a better glimpse of my MK4 I had placed on it's back. But yeah, anywhere else and no one seems to care.
 
I'm restoring my DK at my parents house while I'm house hunting, and most of the work gets done in the driveway in the evenings.

I've had at least 5 people stop by when they were out walking their dogs or whatever and ask my what I'm working on. When I say it's a Donkey Kong I'm restoring most of them have gone into long-winded descriptions of playing as a kid.

My Dad's neighbor Kevin told me that he always held the high score in his local arcade, and he wanted to be the second quarter once she was up and running.
 
You get the same reaction with classic cars on the road. It's just not something people see in their daily routine.
 
I think alot of people forgot about these games so when they see them they get excited. That is the response I get when they are seen in my garage or when I am unloading them.
 
Call me crazy but myself and a few other collectors in the Missouri midwest haul games uncovered all the time. And yes, the looks we get going down the road are priceless.

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Reminds me of driving home from Oklahoma City with a sweet Armor Attack in the back of my truck a few months back. I passed two guys pulling a solid looking railroad crossing gate disassembled on a trailer. I thought what they had was so cool. I've always wanted one. Each truck gave the other a simultaneous smile and thumbs-up. A couple of collectors collecting cool old stuff. I hadn't in years paid much attention to any railroad crossing gate until then (except for those few times my thoughts regarded wanting one). Since then I've been seeing them a bit differently (and thinking more often about getting one). So maybe seeing us with our games in the backs of our trucks does influence others to drop a quarter or two into one, at least once in a while.
 
Call me crazy but myself and a few other collectors in the Missouri midwest haul games uncovered all the time. And yes, the looks we get going down the road are priceless.

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Yep! I seem to recall recently transporting a certain stun runner uncovered in the back of my Ford F-150. ;)


I've even hit some rain transporting machines but luckily that was always on the highway where as long as you're constantly moving you're fine!
 
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