This hobby and basements. Share your pain.

I've started taking out monitors, power bricks and any other easily removable weight in the garage before going downstairs. It helps a little, but not much. I really am starting to believe that the wood used in Atari cabinets is injected with concrete.
 
I've started taking out monitors, power bricks and any other easily removable weight in the garage before going downstairs. It helps a little, but not much. I really am starting to believe that the wood used in Atari cabinets is injected with concrete.

Do that in a Nintendo cab and you can almost pick up the cab and walk it down.
 
Winch + hand cart + planks is the way

 

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When we got the house I was granted full authority to have the garage for my 2nd garcade. 2 years later, I inherited a car that I did not know for sure if it was coming to me. I'm happy to have gotten the car, but it jacked up the garcade.

Who the hell uses a garage for cars, anyway? XD
 
Damn this hobby to Hell.

My last house backed up to wetlands and the basement would flood out. That meant no games in the basement.

My current home's basement is drier than one of Phet's jokes (kidding, love ya bro), but the person who built this place was CLEARLY a non arcade collector. That said, no exterior access to the basement, and the "stairs" may as well be a water slide.

I'm going to try to move my 2 Taito cabs down there and we'll see how it goes. The initial garcade plan is not panning out. At. All.View attachment 824865
All of my games are in 2 rooms in my basement. I'm planning to buy a stair climber when I'm ready to start selling them off in the not too distant future.
 
No pain where all of my stuff is stored, but hauling games out of basements will always be a thing on pickups.

I ran across a deal where a dude that just retired from a GM factory in MI was downsizing his life and had a basement full of games he bought from Alladin's Castle when they all were 2-3 years old, so everything was basically perfect (other than the Journey he unfortunately scrapped), but the stair had an annoyingly tight landing a couple steps up that wouldn't fit a hand truck holding a game.

I wasn't looking forward to the pulling the stuff out, but I get there and he had already pulled everything out by himself except for the Baby Pac. He just sandwiched 2-2x8s across the top of the door frame and bolted a winch to it, then used a heavy tow strap around the games. Worked great.

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That's actually quite brilliant.
 
It's a place under the house where mid-westerners hide from tornados and get cancer from the radon gas.........:)

oh, and for the record, I have a walkout and it has saved my life.

What we do to have games in our houses, just wow.
What does a Hurricane in Florida, a Tornado in Kansas and a Divorce in Alabama have in common?

Someone is losing a trailer.
 
What does a Hurricane in Florida, a Tornado in Kansas and a Divorce in Alabama have in common?

Someone is losing a trailer.

Or "All begin with a lot of blowing, but in the end you just lose your house."
 
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