Games Abandoned House
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We didnt have much to go on, but the few pictures she was able to send through gave us enough reasons to decide that we needed to rescue these games as soon as possible the house was literally falling apart. The new owner had intentions to gut and renovate the place, so we had to get there quickly. To rescue old arcade cabinets Hell yes We were hesitant, as we only had a few pictures to go by, but after a bit of debate, we felt we simply had to go for it. If theres one thing the UK arcade collector scene is good at, its getting organised with logistics and manpower for these sorts of things. Within 2. 4 hours, we had commitments from 1. Luton vans down to the place to get these cabinets out. And so, on 8th September, we set off in convoy for our 6. Western France. First stop was the Eurotunnel. Our Raid convoy. Loading up onto the Eurotunnel. And then a further five hundred mile drive to our location. We arrived at 3. 0. Three hours later, we were up, showered well some of us were and ready for the final push on to the destination to get cracking. We covered over 1,0. We arrived at 8. 0. France. Local life seemed relaxed Is there anything finer than warm fresh French baguettes in the morning I think not. Strangely, the locals seemed to know we were coming, and we were able to get directions through the winding lanes to the building in question We waited for the owner to arrive so we could be let in. Peering through the windows, we got an idea of what we were up against. It was a mess in there. But we had been assured that the building had been made stable stable enough for us to get in, and remove whatever we wanted. Games Abandoned House' title='Games Abandoned House' />EnaGames Ena The Dark Fence 30 Pumpkin House In Hamool Escape is another point and click escape game developed by Ena Games. Now we are in the end of the level here. The reality was this building was far from safe, and it was clear that we would be putting ourselves at a great deal of risk just to access much of what was there. I have a ton of pictures, so Ill try to break this down to the main areas, and give you an idea of what we found. Check the descriptions under the photos for more info This was the ground floor This is what greeted us when we walked in. Notice the doors hanging in mid air above, and the bow in the ceiling. From this vantage point, you could look up right through three floors and see daylight through holes in the roof. It was immediately clear that safety was going to be an issue. Those Acro Props were supposed to be holding the ceiling up, but you can see that they had been placed on beer crates. Purple30/v4/3a/79/11/3a79117a-0f1e-9a9d-2de0-41d7e31fef78/source/520x293bb.jpg' alt='Games Abandoned House' title='Games Abandoned House' />They were completely ineffective. More on the individual cabs later, but you can get a sense of the age of everything. Games Abandoned House' title='Games Abandoned House' />Demolition Derby, Super Road Champions and Steeplechase all Midlate 7. Speak Rescue, Grand Crash and Playtime. Nothing had been moved for 2. The pile of rubble on the right is the remains of what was the ceiling above. The cab at the back there is a Demolition Derby. We got it out. Heres the view down from the floor above. There should have been a floorceiling here but it was long gone. Practical Programming For Strength Training Mark Rippetoe Pdf there. The ground floor extended to other areas a loading bay of sorts, and an outbuilding A view down towards part of the loading bay area. Some gems here. Two pinball machines. Nothing to be saved here. Casa Galbena Resita Program there. And out the back, we were able to get into an outbuilding The rest of the ceiling had been removed and dumped here. A moments silence pleaseHeres the outbuilding. A few pinball boxes, a jukebox and a couple of uprights. More pinball boxes and headers. A better view of the loading bay. Nice Gunfight there and several cocktail tables stacked up. More pin boxes and a wrecked Gee. Bee. It wasnt pretty in this room, but that Galaxian was worth grabbing. A set of stairs in the corner of the building allowed us up to the second floor. Its impossible to describe how unsafe it was up there. In places, the floor moved as you walked on it, and rubble would fall from the ceiling under our feet onto the ground floor below. There was one area that we just couldnt walk on at all A beautiful Wurlitzer Statesman jukebox. The floor could not be walked on. I didnt tilt the camera here thats the angle of the floor. The waiting room. Another cool looking jukebox. There was something very sad about this room. A few pins in here and a sorry looking Crazy Kong bootleg at the back there. Gottlieb Volcano pinball. I think the playfield might need some work. Probably the find of the day was this amazing Sega Jet Rocket. More on this later. This pile of monitor PCB chassis was in one room. Nothing here was worth saving sadly. From there, another set of stairs took you up to the loft area. Again, it is hard to get a sense for the dangers up here. But check out what we found For a loft, theres a lot of daylight up here More cabs in the gloom. Walking over there would be risky. A lovely Atari Gran Trak. I pushed the top, to see if it was moveable the bottom stayed put. It was waterlogged. What you cant see from this picture are the holes in the floor. A Head On this was surprisingly solid. An original Nutting Ricochet. It was beautiful and very rare. But check out the floor it was completely rotten and very weak. No one was prepared to walk on it to pull the thing out. Things were more stable on this side of the loft. Thats a Breakout table. Note the old CRTPinball boxes. I think that coloured glass was from a jukebox. It wasnt all bad news. Heres the upright Battlezone we managed to rescue from the loft. Note the caved in roof to the left if nothing else, you got a nice view across the town. Straight ahead there was a Taito Safari upright, and you can just make out an original Atari Lunar Lander upright. Theres more pictures but Ill be here all day if I keep going. Heres a brief walk through video that I put together on arrival. This will give you an idea of the conditions we were dealing with I do want to share some of the great stuff we did manage to pull from the building. We had to work quickly as we were under time pressures to get back to our booked crossing on the Eurotunnel. We quickly identified what we wanted to grab some took more than others, but heres a few highlights Heres that Battlezone as we found it. Getting it down was a challenge, as we didnt have much safe floor underfoot to move things around, but we got there. Heres a great shot of the guys getting the Battlezone down. Just steps away from potential disaster you get a real feel for what the conditions were like. It is a very weird cab. Note the Asteroids buttons on the control panel. Inside is what appeared to be an original Battlezone PCB further investigation required on this one, but it looks to be a conversion of some sort.