Spotted in the wild

CathalDublin

Just seen a Sega Rally upright and Point blank 2(colours looked off) in apple green at Enfield.
Which got me thinking, I wonder how many cabs/pins are actually still in use in Ireland. Where/What else have you seen out there?

o1s1n

Posted these pics a little while ago, but definitely worth including in this thread

Spotted in Bray Bowl.

Jack burton

There's an old point black in the back of a college in town. must go inquire about that actually

unky chop chop

Those sit down electrocoins are quality.
They used to be in every bowling alley in Dublin.
Where have they all gone...some one must have a stash of them

Jack burton wrote: »

There's an old point black in the back of a college in town. must go inquire about that actually

Haa keeping your cards close to your chest.I've a day off tomorrow and I'm hitting every college in town to whip it from under our grasp.sh1t game though

the groutch

used to love playing Super Pang in Bray Bowl, probably still there, the owner was never one to spend money replacing stuff in a hurry.

Andrew76

unky chop chop wrote: »

Haa keeping your cards close to your chest.I've a day off tomorrow and I'm hitting every college in town to whip it from under our grasp.sh1t game though

DIT Kevin St. used to have a few woodies in the "snackery". Some cabs too. :pac:

Myrddin

DIT Bolton Street used to have some too back yonder, can't even remember what they were...possibly some sit down driving game

TechnoFreek

Andrew76 wrote: »

DIT Kevin St. used to have a few woodies in the "snackery". Some cabs too. :pac:

You a DIT Kevin St alumni too. They had Time Crisus 2 there in my day! Pumped many a coin into the machine.

I went to Kevin St too
I think they had golden tee.
A friend of mine is there at the moment,I'll find out whats there.

LoGiE

Holy crap those cabs have in in Bray the last 18 years easy!

o1s1n

LoGiE wrote: »

Holy crap those cabs have in in Bray the last 18 years easy!

They're the exact cabs I used to play Puzzle Bobble and Metal Slug 1&3 on. They haven't been on floor in years. I reckon they brought them out of storage for the BYOB nights.

CathalDublin

urbanledge wrote: »

I went to Kevin St too
I think they had golden tee.
A friend of mine is there at the moment,I'll find out whats there.

Nothing in there now, not in the Canteen anyway

OwaynOTT

Im in youghal at the moment and they have a sega rally and a bunch of other two seater racers. ****e pool table ate the white ball off the break though!
They have a mushroom that has a little cab for kids inside it also.

Optimus Prime

There are a few cabs in Skerries, Operation Thunderbolt, after burner, twin sega rally sitdown and one or two others.

Also in TGIs in Blanch there is a Batman Pinball table, there was a Tron one in the cinema in liffey valley but that's gone now.

o1s1n

Was the after burner a sit down?

Was in bray bowl last night. The Xenon was running SF2. Duets had Tekken (not sure which one) and Metal Slug 3. Was great playing Mslug 3 as it was the exact mobo and cart I played growing up! Monitor was a bit banjaxed though. Lots of pincushioning, dark and colours were murky.

I'd love to get that mobo and cart from them.

Optimus Prime

o1s1n wrote: »

Was the after burner a sit down?

It was a stand up one, with the handle sticking out of it.

Was in the square yesterday so went to atari expo for a look,
not much left,

Sega rally 3 twin sit down,Super bikes 2 twin sitdown and doodle jump.
couple of crane games.

I waned a shot on sega rally but dint have time or change.

TechnoFreek

urbanledge wrote: »

Was in the square yesterday so went to atari expo for a look,
not much left,

Sega rally 3 twin sit down,Super bikes 2 twin sitdown and doodle jump.
couple of crane games.

I waned a shot on sega rally but dint have time or change.

Was curious to know that ad I used to go there a lot coming up from the sticks as a kid. Is it not mostly a casino now?

Yea theres a few games just inside the door then theres doors into a casino.
I dint go in there,I guess it was full of low lifes!

TechnoFreek

urbanledge wrote: »

Yea theres a few games just inside the door then theres doors into a casino.
I dint go in there,I guess it was full of low lifes!

Tut tut urban! Stereotyping at its finest!

deathrider

Found this Ridge Racer machine in Shannon Airport about a month ago. I may have been quite happy about it. They also had a Virtua Cop (number 3, I think) and a Sega racer called Scud Racer. Feckin' pound per credit though!

o1s1n

Wow! Amazing seeing a stand up Ridge Racer still on site somewhere. I thought they'd all be long gone at this point.

A quid a go is crazy. They'd probably make more money in the long run if it was 50c.

deathrider

o1s1n wrote: »

Wow! Amazing seeing a stand up Ridge Racer still on site somewhere. I thought they'd all be long gone at this point.

A quid a go is crazy. They'd probably make more money in the long run if it was 50c.

Possibly. I was just stunned that the place had a tiny little arcade corner! I would have blown all my cash there if I had of had enough time.
Also, there are a few machines in Funstastia in Drogheda. Nothing old, but they've got After Burner: Climax and 18 Wheeler, which are always worth a go... again a pound a pop though.

Myrddin

Kinda cool seeing the Ridge Racer cab in the wild, knowing I own one! Also cool seeing another one of its ilk, as I never seen them in the wild back in the days of yonder

CathalDublin

Friend of mine just posted this on facebook
It's going into Fibbers:eek:

Dr Bob

Andrew76 wrote: »

DIT Kevin St. used to have a few woodies in the "snackery". Some cabs too. :pac:

From memory ( cos I went there in the early nineties) .. in the mini arcade room off at the side of the snackery there was ..pacland . Pang. A dodgy hk street fighter II bootleg (rainbow? ) a 1000 miles rally..and I think there was a lethal enforcers and a black tiger. Out in the snackery there was a mk cab and ...I think a f1 twin...
Good times:)

KeRbDoG

CathalDublin wrote: »

Friend of mine just posted this on facebook
It's going into Fibbers:eek:

That right there is about €5~6k of pinball table - the newer stern pinball tables be expensive!

Shapey Fiend

deathrider wrote: »

Found this Ridge Racer machine in Shannon Airport about a month ago. I may have been quite happy about it. They also had a Virtua Cop (number 3, I think) and a Sega racer called Scud Racer. Feckin' pound per credit though!

Scud Racer is the best arcade racer of all time. That precise machine has been in various places in Clare since the 90's and there's always something broken on it.

They've got a GTI Club (original) in the main lobby after security. Think there might be an upright Sega Rally upstairs as well but I don't know if it's still there.

zilog_jones

There was an upright 18 Wheeler in Shannon airport too, upstairs by the canteen. It wasn't there the last time I was there though, so maybe moved somewhere else or gone completely?

Fun World in Limerick (Ennis Road, next to Supermac's) still had Virtua Tennis, a large sit-down 18 Wheeler (rear projector screen), Time Crisis 2 and a few other semi-classics. Looking quite run-down these days...

RichyX

Cork airport had a stand up Sega Touring Car Championship cab just inside the terminal a few years ago.
They had another machine too, possibly Sega Rally 1 or 2, can't remember.

Hardly seems worth listing what Century City has.

sparkthatbled

What happens to all of the old arcade machines? Given that most of the arcades in this country are just full of slot machines now, did they sell their old games or (worst fear) did they dump them? I used to spend a fortune in Atari Expo in the square playing Sega Rally, House Of The Dead, Point Blank etc, but my favourite one was tucked away in the corner and nobody else seemed to give it a second look. It was called Vapor TRX, anyone remember it? It was a Wipeout type futuristic hover racer with weapons, but rather than random weapons to pick up each racer had it's own weapon and you picked up upgrades.

Mitch bought them all
we get the dregs

o1s1n

Here's what happens to the majority of arcade machines which are no longer bringing in money.

Jack burton

Yeah first hand from talking to people, when they arnt making money anymore they get shipped off.

A fella I know was telling me about a pinball machine he broke up for dumping...All he said was it was really old and had a rotary scoreboard

I almost bled from my eye

o1s1n

I'm sure you'll do the same with your Egret II when you don't need it anymore, right?

Pick Axe straight through the monitor? :pac:

Kidchameleon

o1s1n, its that pic real? If so I have to say it makes me kind of sad, genuinely. Those machines are really more than machines if you know what I mean.

Jack burton

o1s1n wrote: »

I'm sure you'll do the same with your Egret II when you don't need it anymore, right?

Pick Axe straight through the monitor? :pac:

The blast city is getting a brick through it and thrown up on the bonfire next halloween

CathalDublin

Most them machines were illegal gambling machines

Steve X2

I know a few European and US resellers of candy cabs get some of their stock (candies and parts)from the dumping areas in Asia. Or at least that's what I've been told over a few drinks while in Japan during the years I've been going over there looking for retro gold.

sparkthatbled

o1s1n wrote: »

Here's what happens to the majority of arcade machines which are no longer bringing in money.

http://whatareyouplayingnow.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/graveyard.jpg

This was pretty much my reaction to that...

Jack burton

Steve SI wrote: »

I know a few European and US resellers of candy cabs get some of their stock (candies and parts)from the dumping areas in Asia. Or at least that's what I've been told over a few drinks while in Japan during the years I've been going over there looking for retro gold.

Yeah I've heard that aswell

They'd go in and get the best of whats there and fill up a container and shi it off. Sure the ammount of cabs in Japan and the likes is beyond our comprehension over here really isnt it

1. Go to Japan
2. Go to a dump
3?
4. Profit!!!

CiDeRmAn

sparkthatbled wrote: »

This was pretty much my reaction to that...

If that had been Dr Crusher in the background he'd have manned up, in case there was a chance of getting jiggy with it later.
Seeing as it was the old crone Pulaski, he might as well let it out.

o1s1n

Check out this arcade graveyard. Look at all those pins, they're stacked like coffins!

http://www.invaded.fr/2009/02/26/roadtrip-nouvelle-caverne-dali-baba/

Edit - probably best not to run a translation on that page, you'll end up reading things like this;

During the first roadtrip, the seller had cleared one of several pinball warehouse for burn .... and after discussion had finally decided to wait a bit. So, it's pinball Stocka outside his home not far from the ground, so we present ...

Myrddin

Christ, the cave of wonders!

o1s1n

It's really an amazing find. I was reading through some of it and it looks to be over several warehouses. Even one of the warehouses was disguised behind a load of undergrowth.

It was back in 2009 - so they've all either been rehomed or burned by now I'd say

Steve X2

This is what I see when people post pictures of arcade machines and pins getting burned or destroyed




And how i feel:

OwaynOTT

Why burn them? Surely these people should realise there is no such thing as trash as someone somehwere will always nearly find a use for it.
Well unless of course its

Jack burton

Always a use for something

Optimus Prime

I was in Waterford the weekend with the wife, we went down to Tramore on Saturday to see if i could spot any Arcade machines. No such luck, its full of Slot Machines, Pokers, and Fancy Modern Gizzery Doos. Only think I spotted was what look like House of the Dead 2 and Point Blank 2 through a window of a closed off Arcade. Other than that closest i came where these two which arent exactly old...

Shapey Fiend

I was in Tramore a couple of years ago and they still had loads of good stuff. Crisis Zone was the highlight I must have spent 15 euro on it. There are about 5 arcades there (and a couple of them are beautiful buildings) but they're probably mostly closed at this time of year.

Optimus Prime

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

I was in Tramore a couple of years ago and they still had loads of good stuff. Crisis Zone was the highlight I must have spent 15 euro on it. There are about 5 arcades there (and a couple of them are beautiful buildings) but they're probably mostly closed at this time of year.

They where all open dude, i was in about 5 of them up that stretch of road off the beach, but they had nothing except the modern games and a LOAD of gambling machines. One part of one arcade was closed, but i could see everything in it including the House of the dead and point blank. there was nothing else there. Spotted a Terminator Salvation game, those outruns, one or two other driving games that was about it. Hundreds of slot machines though!