Grandmother Buys Old Building In Japan And Finds 55 Classic Arcade Cabinets 133
An anonymous reader writes A grandmother agreed to purchase an old building in Chiba, which is just outside of Tokyo. When her family arrived to check out the contents of the building it was discovered that the first two floors used to be a game center in the 1980s. Whoever ran it left all the cabinets behind when it closed, and it is full of classic and now highly desirable games. In total there are 55 arcade cabinets, most of which are the upright Aero Cities cabinets, but it's the game boards that they contain that's the most exciting discovery.
Boards include Donkey Kong, Street Fighter Alpha 2 (working despite the CPS2 lockout chip's tendency to kill old boards), and Metal Slug X.
Re:Boards or ROM's (Score:4, Insightful)
Even with ROM images, some of the older, weirder arcade hardware is very hard to accurately emulate, so having whole boards is very precious.
Re:Boards or ROM's (Score:3, Insightful)
I hope you never need neurosurgery.
Re:Classic Shots (Score:1, Insightful)
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