Most difficult/challenging machines to move…

My vote goes to the Gauntlet 4-player. This beyotch almost gives me a hernia every time I move it. Not only is it heavy, it's awkward.

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Any of the Mortal Kombat series, if you have to climb any stairs.

Even with the monitor removed, it's a heavy-ass cab. I can hump most bare cabs up a couple of flights by myself if I remove all the heavy bits. But not an MK. It's still a 2-man job.
Absolutely. Also. Terminator 2 and Target terror. Heavy damn cabs. Not the heaviest cabs, but like the Mks', they are deceptively heavy. I also have to add my Time Crisis 2. Not the easiest at all. Its tall and the front pedestal needs to be removed. Kind of top heavy...just blah.
 
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Any cockpit.

Extra credit for the Star Trek SOS Cockpit. How do you move that and NOT crack it?

I stripped everything out of my Tail Gunner 2, and got the weight down to around 150 lbs, but that thing is SO ungainly to move. I brought it down my stairs on my strap dolly sideways until I got it to the bottom, then had to rotate the dolly to the bottom, re-attach the strap, and then lean it into the doorway low enough to clear and get into the house.

And by everything, I mean everything but the coin door and the diamond plate floor (since the cab had been split at some point in the past (like Red Baron), and I was worried about it going to pieces.)
 
720.. just an awkward, top-heavy Cabinet to maneuver with the pedestal base

Spy hunter. this upright is almost too tall for its own good …hard to get it to lean back by yourself to wheel it on a dolly.
M.A.C.H 3 upright is one heavy SOB. Made from MDF.

These, based on my personal experiences. Had to have help leaning each one of these back onto the dolly. Sure I'm lightweight and shorter than most, but I can get pretty much any other game in my collection hefted back onto my dolly and out the front door without any help.

It definitely gives you a solid appreciation for cabs that aren't hard to move. Nintendo deserves an award or 5 for how easy their machines are to get from point A to point B.
 
I collect a lot of large, dedicated machines and have had some moving experiences that have been pretty traumatic.

The most difficult machine I have ever had to move is a Namco Victory Lap deluxe. The picture below isn't of my machine, but it gives you an idea of the scale of these cabinets. From memory the total weight of the machine is in excess of 2400 pounds. Although the machine splits into three main sections, it is the seat bases which are the worst. They are about 900-1000 pounds each and it is impossible to split them into smaller sections to get the weight down.

The last time I move one of these, I had to use a car trailer with an eclectic winch, and even then it was an absolute nightmare due to the weight and caster wheels not wanting to go up the ramps. There were several occasions where the cab rolled off the ramps and 'beached' itself on the ramps. At that, only a forklift can move them.

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I tried moving a Jurassic a park Lost Worlds standup with two people and almost killed myself.
 
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Out Run upright yet. The wide base plus the curved back make it a bitch to get a grip on when moving it up a flight of stairs. There are no handle cutouts on the back either. In my space, a hand truck won't fit at the base of the stairs due to the extra wide base. So, you need to muscle it up the stairs, step by step. Took 3 of us to get my last one up. And the guys on the top could not grip it correctly and looked like they were going to have a stroke trying to lift it step by step. Good times. AND it's made of MDF. Very fun to play, but a PITA to move.

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Six. Player. X-Men.

How has that not been brought up yet?
If you want to move it anywhere, you need to take the thing apart, into three pieces. The main piece is near 7' tall, so you definitely can't tilt in on its side or you may hit a ceiling. It also *barely* fits through a standard doorway. Forget about stairs. If someone offered me one of these for free in a basement with no walk out I would pass. If you do want to move it somewhere, you'll want to take the mirror out too and keep it separate, making moving it a full on production.

I love ours.

I never want to move it again.
 
Six. Player. X-Men.

How has that not been brought up yet?
If you want to move it anywhere, you need to take the thing apart, into three pieces. The main piece is near 7' tall, so you definitely can't tilt in on its side or you may hit a ceiling. It also *barely* fits through a standard doorway. Forget about stairs. If someone offered me one of these for free in a basement with no walk out I would pass. If you do want to move it somewhere, you'll want to take the mirror out too and keep it separate, making moving it a full on production.

I love ours.

I never want to move it again.
I've owned one and I found that WAY easier to move since it comes apart in chunks.
 
agreed on whoever said 720, its the only game i almost dropped trying to lean into my minivan when picking up without asking the seller for help, i think you helped me recover Mike so thanks

my hardest move was probably Video Pinball even with my wife and the two small ladies selling it helping, it was the only time i thought i might seriously hurt someone as we pulled it up two and a half floors worth of outdoor deck stairs… long and heavy despite being on the smaller side
 
Going to break the forum thread rules here and say: the Sega USA variant of Daytona 2 (see photo). Even with quality casters, the body is so wide and yet the position of the casters is so narrow, if you push too hard or too high up from the side, it will tip over easily! You cannot push from the side. Doesn't help that all of the yellow plastic is very brittle and cracks and shatters easily too.

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I think anything with 25-27" crt mid-mounted with mirror. RevX, Thunderbolt etc.

Not fun to try and rip up out of van alone.
 
People can't possibly think 720 is harder to move than Top Skater...or Air Trix. The latter two used those huge 50" projection monitor setups.
 
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