What Happens When an Arcade Collector Passes Away?!?!

Give it to the International Arcade Museum. I hear they might be open to the public for a day in the next decade or two, for realsies this time :D

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I'll make the same joke I do every time this comes up:

Be interred in a full size Sinistar cabinet.
During the wake it will scream "BEWARE! I LIVE!"
 
BUT... I have had discussions with my wife on the real value of the machines, who to contact after I pass, and the best way to get rid of them if so inclined. I should probably have the same conversation about the rest of my stuff, but I always expect her to out-live me anyway. ;)
Me too. She knows how much all the games are worth and will not sell them for cheap...then again I won't give two shits when I'm dead.

Great story BTW. RIP Pete.
 
Great article, thanks for the link. Its very interesting to me that he was on the upper edge of age for collectors I've read about. I know there are some older guys into pinball, but thought the large percentage of video game collectors were in mid-50's or younger -the guys that were roughly teenagers or maybe slightly older when the Golden Age hit.
 
Wow. Really nice article.

Any of us over 40 have probably wondered at some point what will happen to our collections when we're gone. If only they could all be treated like this one.

I want to leave my Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man to my kids. I don't know about the rest.
 
I don't have anything in place at all ether... It would be crazy for everybody to sort threw my shit
 
I don't have anything in place at all ether... It would be crazy for everybody to sort threw my shit

It's a nightmare scenario and a heavy burden for your family, in my line of work(apt maintenance manager) I've seen families of deceased show up at a loved ones units that's full of their stuff and not have a clue what to do with it all. I had one resident that collected anything coca cola and had stuffed his unit completely full of coke stuff even reach in coolers, he died and willed all his coke stuff to his grand daughter. when his son showed up(father of the GD) with a uhaul and was loading up he was bitching about having to rent a storage locker for it all for his 14 year old daughter and said she didn't even want it. some come and take valuable's and then leave us to trash the rest or donate it to goodwill, leaving a bunch of stuff behind isn't always ideal.

Glad everything worked out in this story though and that some good folks stepped up to help.
 
Why is that pic familiar?
Is that the former supposed digs of RAM Controls?

That building looks a lot like one I used to drive past in Pasadena, CA.

Then again, in SoCal there are a million buildings that look exactly like that one, so I could be wrong.
 
Make a will people, you can do it online for almost nothing. At least you can have your stuff dedicated to someone or an entity (museum, local arcade, etc) so it won't go to the trash.

This thread inspired me to make my intentions known. After reading it, I told my wife that I want my Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man to go to my son and daughter. I told her that she may sell the rest of them. They are of no real value to her but I know that she would not treat them disrespectfully because of what they mean to me. Though I would not want her living without me but being stuck with a bunch of my stuff.

P.S. I do not want to be buried in one of my games. Let's not ruin any perfectly good games when I could just have Pac-Man characters painted on a coffin instead.
 
Really great story there. So cool to see everyone rally to help out the family and the hobby. I really need to get a will in place as well, not that I have a massive collection of games (yet) but volumes of other stuff and definite wishes for what should happen to it. It's also a great idea to record a walkthrough video of the collection(s) and narrate their history and your wishes for it as well.

And, uh, holy crap what a collection! Those Universal cabs...never get tired of ogling them.
 
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