keithsarcade
Well-known member
Found a CL listing today for a garage sale in New Bloomfield (about 15 minutes from my house). It mentioned a "football arcade game" among other random stuff. No price and no description. From previous experience I was expecting this to either be one of those little kiddie "toss the football in the bean bag" type of toy or an overpriced Blitz. But my wife just happened to be in the same town at a horse arena and was getting ready to head home, so I called her and asked her to find out what it was.
She calls me 10 minutes later and tells me it is indeed an arcade game, a High Impact. OK, not a game I really need, but pretty cool to find one at a garage sale. I asked if it was working. "Yep, just really dirty" (of course). Ok, so now how much does the guy want for it? I hear "25 bucks" in the background and my wife shouts out "SOLD!" before I can get another word in. So she comes back home, we hop in the new Ram with blankets in the back seat. We still don't have a bedliner in this truck yet and were already breaking it in for a game haul.
Anyway I get it home and spend a few hours cleaning it, tweaking it and repairing a couple of bad connections. It works great and plays great. The cab it a little rough but not bad, I've definitely seen much worse (like my RoadBlasters, but that's a whole other thread).
Not a bad score, even my old lady is proud.
She calls me 10 minutes later and tells me it is indeed an arcade game, a High Impact. OK, not a game I really need, but pretty cool to find one at a garage sale. I asked if it was working. "Yep, just really dirty" (of course). Ok, so now how much does the guy want for it? I hear "25 bucks" in the background and my wife shouts out "SOLD!" before I can get another word in. So she comes back home, we hop in the new Ram with blankets in the back seat. We still don't have a bedliner in this truck yet and were already breaking it in for a game haul.
Anyway I get it home and spend a few hours cleaning it, tweaking it and repairing a couple of bad connections. It works great and plays great. The cab it a little rough but not bad, I've definitely seen much worse (like my RoadBlasters, but that's a whole other thread).
Not a bad score, even my old lady is proud.


