FullThrottle
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One of my coolest arcade hauls, super dope free CL game and 3x nasty surprises!!
Last week I see an oddball listed Craigslist ad for a free Donkey Kong machine, very vague, and its over a day old... I don't think too much of it and expect it to be gone anyways, but I send an email off and offer him a case of beer. The next day he emails me back and gives me a call, he's really cool and says that he'll hold it until a better day to do it, but reassures me that its mine if I come out to get it and he'll consider it gone.
A few days later I head out, starting by getting gas and haulin' an 18 pack of Budweiser... expecting a trashed old blue Donkey Kong. But what I find soon turns into a cool oddball place to find and pickup a game... I see the two cooling towers of the old Satsop Power Station off in the distance as I'm getting closer... but mapquest keeps me going towards them... Finally I arrive at the house after getting lost on some country roads for a few minutes... it was located in the shadow of two nuclear reactor cooling towers, just like in the Simpsons show! The sun was going down and it was really a cool sight. I'm fascinated by Nuclear... anyways... I was wondering if it was an omen that he also had a Reactor or Missile Command machine!
I get to the house... hoping for something I maybe do a custom Nintendo cabinet up... but its not blue... its a trashed RED Donkey Kong! Serial number 01301... Its mostly complete but is beatup and dirty as hell! She needs a full resto, but is such a cool cabinet its worth the blood sweat and tears. I was very excited, at least the cabinet was solid even after sitting in his garage for nearly 10 years! But... it had a funny smell, and there was alot of shit in the bottom of it so I decided to take it to work and douche the cabinet and see if I could get it working for us to play on breaktime.
Last week I see an oddball listed Craigslist ad for a free Donkey Kong machine, very vague, and its over a day old... I don't think too much of it and expect it to be gone anyways, but I send an email off and offer him a case of beer. The next day he emails me back and gives me a call, he's really cool and says that he'll hold it until a better day to do it, but reassures me that its mine if I come out to get it and he'll consider it gone.
A few days later I head out, starting by getting gas and haulin' an 18 pack of Budweiser... expecting a trashed old blue Donkey Kong. But what I find soon turns into a cool oddball place to find and pickup a game... I see the two cooling towers of the old Satsop Power Station off in the distance as I'm getting closer... but mapquest keeps me going towards them... Finally I arrive at the house after getting lost on some country roads for a few minutes... it was located in the shadow of two nuclear reactor cooling towers, just like in the Simpsons show! The sun was going down and it was really a cool sight. I'm fascinated by Nuclear... anyways... I was wondering if it was an omen that he also had a Reactor or Missile Command machine!
I get to the house... hoping for something I maybe do a custom Nintendo cabinet up... but its not blue... its a trashed RED Donkey Kong! Serial number 01301... Its mostly complete but is beatup and dirty as hell! She needs a full resto, but is such a cool cabinet its worth the blood sweat and tears. I was very excited, at least the cabinet was solid even after sitting in his garage for nearly 10 years! But... it had a funny smell, and there was alot of shit in the bottom of it so I decided to take it to work and douche the cabinet and see if I could get it working for us to play on breaktime.


