German Arcade Junkyard

Woah! That is insane. I kind of like looking at pics like that, though. Even though there are some very, very sad machines there.
 
Even though it is a German website, I don't think those pics are from Germany. I have seen those pictures before. I am 98% sure they were taken somewhere here in the states.
 
Even though it is a German website, I don't think those pics are from Germany. I have seen those pictures before. I am 98% sure they were taken somewhere here in the states.

yeah it was weird for me to see upright cabs in germany,since they werent popular in europe.
thanks for the correct info update

stop those vandals and save the cabs
 
I'll clean out the guy's entire place for free if he'll let me keep his "junk piles". It doesn't even matter where this is, I'll go just to save those games!
 
These pictures have been around for a long, long time. I think I remember seeing them before 2000.

I'm sure all of this stuff is long gone by now. :(
 
I don't understand the point of "storing" wood cabs outside...it's lke a paper company with outside storage!
 
a number of those cabs were saved, stuff that was "safe" inside the barn. some of the cabs outside were scavenged for parts. but a lot if not most of 'em ended up being scrapped.

remember, these probably belonged to an operator who didn't care about them once they stopped producing revenue. proper storage is expensive, and why spend money to store 'em if they ain't gonna make any more money? disposal is also expensive so why take 'me to a landfill if you have a handy old barn?

a lot of operators did not like to sell their games because they were worried that the buyer might end up being the competition. Chuck E. Cheese was famous for that, throwing complete working games in the dumpster to make sure nobody else could use 'em.
 
The thing that I don't get is that in the pics of the inside of the barn there looks to have been room in there to put all of the games that were sitting outside. Am I the only one that sees all the open space? I mean they bothered to stack some onto one another,why not all of them?
 
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