Thus far about 75% of the machines I've acquired here resemble that commentary-
It is easy to reject? Water logged, termite infested, rat and mouse crap filled arcade cabs?
If the cabs are plentiful and you have a lot of time to search and find for that cab.
Dad's with kids understand that there comes a point in time when it going to be the last time your kid will be on your shoulders. A time wheb your kids will want to hang out with thier friends and not you.
When you get older time seems to move faster. If you spend a decade looking for an arcade machine, you might find it but the opportunity to catch that window where the kids are interested in them has come and gone.
You end up with a dad in a garage playing with himself and the kids avoiding the arcades like a plague.
The window of opportunity to make these wonderful arcade memories is not always there.
If you lent out arcade machines to friends and family. You tend to learn these types of life lesson.
Wait too long, restoration that take too long, you miss the window to create a foundness of arcade machines in the younger generation..
Do you wanted your children memories to be we have a great arcade in our house/ garage or look at the pile of crap in garage that took dad away from family time..