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UER Forum > US: Great Lakes > Arcade Graveyard (Viewed 2029 times)
JennyUE 


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Arcade Graveyard
< on 7/6/2020 4:48 PM >
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Flickr Album https://flic.kr/s/aHsmPfX9pt

This place had hundreds of abandoned electronics. Arcades, washers, dryer, computers, TVs, refrigerators, stereos, forklifts, snow blowers (the push ones), Coke machines, ice machines, freezers, etc. There were also a few hundred boxes of cheap arcade prizes like the little basketballs, those squishy rubber balls that look like sea urchins, Martin the Martian wind chimes, and a shitload of Harley bears. The bears were dated 2003 which I would guess is when they were left here. This place was really cool and interesting but not super photogenic so I never pulled out the "real" camera and just used my phone. Enjoy!
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Re: Arcade Graveyard
< Reply # 1 on 7/6/2020 5:23 PM >
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That is a really really great find!




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Re: Arcade Graveyard
< Reply # 2 on 7/7/2020 2:19 AM >
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If that's the place I think it is I've been meaning to go up there for months now. That's really cool!




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Re: Arcade Graveyard
< Reply # 3 on 7/9/2020 7:10 AM >
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Those Coke machines are pretty recent, maybe 10 years old or so. Interesting to see them in a place like this.




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Re: Arcade Graveyard
< Reply # 4 on 7/13/2020 2:10 AM >
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Can't believe the arcade machine are just there going to pot. There's money in them- collectors.




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Re: Arcade Graveyard
< Reply # 5 on 7/13/2020 4:30 PM >
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Wow, great find! I wonder how much it'd cost to restore the arcade games.




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Re: Arcade Graveyard
< Reply # 6 on 7/13/2020 6:14 PM >
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Super cool find! It's a bummer to see those old arcade cabs left to decay. Usually I follow the golden rule of exploring(take only pictures, leave only footsteps), but I can't deny that it'd be tempting to take one of these babies home and give restoration a shot.




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Re: Arcade Graveyard
< Reply # 7 on 7/13/2020 7:02 PM >
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that's incredibly neat. It would be fun to go to that place with a battery pack and inverter, see if any of those machines can still power up. (a friend and I have done that before, with old computers)




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< Reply # 8 on 8/4/2020 3:03 PM >
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very cool. Thanks JennyUE!




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Re: Arcade Graveyard
< Reply # 9 on 9/17/2020 7:04 PM >
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Those pictures make my heart hurt. Time Crisis 3? Lost World? Those are both really recent and holy expensive left to rot.

Thanks for sharing (and I want to rescue them all).




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< Reply # 10 on 10/16/2020 1:34 AM >
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Wow. There are so many great things here! That clown game (?) is epic!




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Re: Arcade Graveyard
< Reply # 11 on 10/21/2020 11:35 PM >
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Great pics and superb find.




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< Reply # 12 on 5/24/2022 1:57 PM >
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Nice find




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