how many times have u seen games out for trash?

I was hauling a load of trash to the DC transfer station just before I moved away in 2002. I looked up while unloading, and wouldn't you know it, a guy in the truck right in front of me was pushing a nice looking Super Cobra right out the back. There was no way I could take the cabinet (no space, since I was moving), but I stripped that mother right there in the dump :). Boardset worked great, too!
 
Not necessarily out for the trash, but I saw a recently (at the time) smashed up centipede on the side of the I 70. It was on a 25mph circular onramp with absolutley no place to stop, and under the overpass on the non road side of the divider. Now that Im trying to convert a 'pede back from jamma, im kicking myself for not trying harder to stop!
 
We found a Dig Dug sitting in back of a dentist office. Had some water damage and needed a new flyback but in otherwise perfect condition. The dentist said the screen was wavy and he didn't know how to fix it so he bought a new one and that one was trash.
 
Yeah, I found a Dig Dug converted to Tri Sports on the sidewalk one night...Fortunately I always drive my station wagon, and I had a buddy, so we laid the machine down on it's side, threw it in the car, and drove it home.
 
Before I started collecting I saw a Phoenix. Had no way to get it home, even tried to put it in the trunk of my Hyundai. :eek:

Next time I would either gut it right there or run home and get the hand truck and wheel it 6 blocks home! :D
 
I saw a cocktail table of an older game that had two joysticks on each side (like tank) out by the road here in Kettering not even a mile from my house. But it was covered in snow/rain by the time I saw it and someone had already gutted it.
 
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/Remember when RGVAC was the only game in town?
 
Zud said:
Before I started collecting I saw a Phoenix. Had no way to get it home, even tried to put it in the trunk of my Hyundai. :eek:

Next time I would either gut it right there or run home and get the hand truck and wheel it 6 blocks home! :D
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The Double Dragon 2 cab went onto the roof of my Elantra. Only had to transport it about 3 blocks in a residential area.

Held onto it through the window.

I was on my way to work when I saw it and it was starting to rain so I knew if I didn't snag it up it would have been a lost cause in the morning. Didn't have time to do anything but put it up on the roof.
 
SeanMcL said:
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/Remember when RGVAC was the only game in town?
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Please tell me that this is photoshop and not real. I remember when RGVAC was the only game, but I don't remember that story.
 
i thin im gonna tkae pics of my games on the curb jsut to mess with u guys :p
 
I got a Space Invaders Deluxe out of the trash at an apartment... a co-worker who knew I liked games saw it on his way to work, so I rushed over there (~5 mins from work) and stripped all the good stuff out of it (so nobody would take the game), then went back for the rest of the cab later when I could get my hauling vehicle.

DogP
 
A Spy Hunter. Which the owner said I could have. That is a game from hell! Works on and off. Someday it will work for morer than 5 min.
Bill
 
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