Things you hate finding when you get a new game

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Things you hate finding when you get a new game. (can be un noticed repair, damage, bonus adult toys, ect..)

Lets here what you really hate

Recent personal new game bonus gifts:

Marquee light destroyed/swapped out with some other form of lighting (recent machine had a back door light that had some dirt caked all over the back somehow (from a previous life))

Fixing the marquee light only to find that one or more speakers are blown (or losing their surround)

Electrical tape/Twist on electrical nuts/scotch tape/masking tape
 
Finding rat nesting. Noticing the faint pee smell AFTER getting a game in the house. Missing coin buckets. Missing DIP sheets. Mystery holes on games with very colorful sideart (thought I had a minty Millipede only to find that the front piece looked like Swiss cheese lol).

Don't get me started on pins... you're almost always going to have a ton of unwelcome surprises with those. :/
 
Finding rat nesting.

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I wish I could find the pics of my Star Wars rat's nest. That thing was packed front to back and up to the monitor! And it was in someone's house like that!! Just nasty to the extreme.
 
cabinet crud...

Good:
Loose change!

Bad:
Rats/mouse nests/turds suck and the fear of henta virus
mummified mice are nasty too as well as dried out dead bugs

worst:
live roaches leaving you with fear of them getting in your home and multiplying!
 
I second the animal nesting and would like to add animal droppings to the list.

I picked up a game I shouldn't have that had been sitting in a dilapidated pole barn since the 80s. It was not only full of rat nestings but rat shit as well. Oh and the board was covered in rat piss!
 
The worst I've heard is a dead momma cat and all of her dead kittens at the bottom of a Timber.

Anyone who owns a Timber: check the inside bottom of your cabinet for multi-colored stains...
 
Oh come to think of it this thread brings to mind the time gotya lured me out to Columbus to buy a Warlords cocktail and he conveniently "forgot" to mention that it was filled about 2" deep in the bottom with rancid mouse turds and the harness was chewed to shit. The cabinet was in great shape, but I couldn't stomach the thought of trying to save it and ended up just stripping all the cabinet parts to powder coat and install on a newly fabricated cab.
 
Apparently i was being very closed minded with my marquee/speaker hate. (tho i haven't really had the joy of a machine w/ mice or rats or bugs for that fact yet, I'll consider myself very lucky lol).


Phet is it just the picture or does that nest look juicy?
 
The worst I've heard is a dead momma cat and all of her dead kittens at the bottom of a Timber.

Anyone who owns a Timber: check the inside bottom of your cabinet for multi-colored stains...

Ow. That kinda stung a lil, poor cats...

Anywho I guess I'm lucky? All I've found was a G07 manual in the Centipede I dumpster dove for and a Tron instruction card stapled inside of my Space Invaders (that one still confuses me)

I'd have to second cockroaches and dead cats though. I'd hate to find those in a cab
 
I was restoring a Lady Bug many years ago and "made it rain". When started removing the marquee and brackets, mouse dropping started pouring out of there like a waterfall. What's worse is I was doing this over carpet. Wahh wahhhh
 
Creepiest spiders in the world. 'Nuff said.
Other than that, worst thing I've found were leaves. :eek:
 
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