How close to the ocean can you safely keep games?

[LyonsArcade]

I'm about 750 miles and so far, so good.

LOL post of the week

 

[caligirl]

I have 5 pins and one video game a block from the ocean, and dont have alot of issues related to my location. Also, my neighborhood is a hotspot for privately owned pinball machines, heck one is clearly visable through the sliding doors of an ocean front house.
Yes, the wet salt air can cause corrosion and mold/mildew issues to about anything left outside, but I have yet to have it cause significant damage or maintenence issues to my games. I maintain comfortable living temperatures in my dwelling and keep good airflow to keep down the mold that is an inevitable battle of living at the ocean, on the edge of the world. All my games are inside, if you are thinking 'garagecade' you will probably want to invest in sealing/venting/temp control/dehumidfying.

 

[LyonsArcade]

I'd say 1,564 miles from the coast is a comfortable setting place.

Someone mentioned California seems to be the safest place for games, due to the amount of collectors & machines there. What if, because a lot of those games were taken there, it is the very reason that so few survive today? j/k

That's all bullshit. Everybody knows California is going to slide into the ocean one day. BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID.

 

[donkeykong81]

I'm pretty sure some cruise ships have arcades....

The cruise I went on this summer on NCL cruise lines had a GREAT arcade! Dual Time Crisis 2, Deluxe Star Wars Trilogy, Deluxe Manx TT Superbike, Cruisn series, Sega Rally Dual, a newer Namco motorcycle game, and a bunch of others. I could have spent a longgg time in there if I wasn't busy with the girls at the bar haha. I couldn't believe how many games they fit in that room and the overall good condition of them. Come to think of it how did they get 5+ deluxe games to the 13th floor and in the door. Crazy!

Wow...off topic but I had to rant/rave

 

[ENDOFLINE]

Hb arcade

wow, i used to frequent that arcade quite often back in the 80's....

loved that old cade under the pier! alot of strange and random people at that place.

were you working those days during the OP PRO riots??

any old pics of that cade would be killer if you have some too.

i def miss the old' school feel that HB used to have now it feels like a mini dowtown disney area. no bueno! chris

I worked as a tech for an arcade under the Huntington Beach Pier in the early '80s. That was too close. It got flooded once. I hated the Sea Wolf game. It kept freezing from corrosion and it smelled like sea weed.
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