Yes! Time for another road trip. This one is going to be very special. Ronald Reagan and I are going to pick up 3 (ultimate) classic cabinets from Paul 50's.
The games are: ms pac man (for my brother), donkey kong jr (for Ronald) and donkey kong for me!
we took a look around at paul's place because he had some other costumers.
after some talk we load the cabs inside the van and hit the road again.
Very nice cabs, thanks for sharing the roadtrip with us!
Nice roadtrip! Are the machines working?
Nope, only the jr is working at the moment (with some missing characters onscreen).
I think a new pcb will fix the pac man, mine dk needs a lot of work, i'll open a restoration topic soon.
Aouch, looks like there is a nest of classic cabs at Paul's!
Yes, i know. maybe you would like to tell them?
DK and DK jr , good choices !
Did you buy the DK3 next to mine dk? It looks great, the cpo is in excellent condition.
Yes, I am very happy with my cab. I will upload pictures of it later. It is in pretty good condition.
Paul told us some interesting stories about importing the cabs to Europe. He stated, that what Nuno with the ninty's and Ckong with the PacMan deal, pulled off is quite unique. As a music box and pinball seller, he stated that in those communities, bulkdeals like that could have never happened. He also said the MK and Terminator etc. were part of the bulkdeal he had to made. Besides that, his second shipment container was full and he said some 6 to 8 cabinets where still waiting for him in the US to be shipped the next time. Don't know about any titles of cabs.
When we started uploading the cabs in the van, I think it was Paul's dad who coordinated the whole stuff. Very nice man, and he made sure all the cabs were safe and sound for our roadtrip back.
On our way back, we passed 2 Burger Kings, but we missed the exits!! F*CK, we were so hungry.
When we got home, we were just half an our late to return the van to the rental company. Which costs us another day rent. CRAP!
Anyhow, we were really happy with our cabs. Never even thought about owning one someday.
Great story guys. Love the pics, and why is McDonalds a lesser company. I happen to like them a lot.
Gyruss, is this your brother's first cab? Did you give him the FEVER!
I wish you a lot of fun with restoring your cab, it's always great to make something pretty special looking pretty nice.
And I think that our little community has built up quite some credit with Paul, I sure hope that he has gotten the taste of it and that we will see more classics in the future.
yes I think you are right about the credit part.
We instructed and adviced him with several titles from cabs that he would certainly sell, like: Q-bert, Tapper, BurgerTime, Donkey Kong etc. But he also stated that he doesn't want to end up with too much stock. I think he has over 30 cabs right now, and he wants to sell them first I guess, before he starts importing new containers again.
I think ill go to the local McD now!!!!