Any chance this warehouse is still in existence and these games are still there? I just started collecting arcade games and I would certainly drive a ways for an inventory like this. Insane!
If that date on the video is correct , this is around the time when arcade games were getting replaced with the ticket-prize games. I used to always play arcade games at the local pizza shop or bowling alley.
My right ear enjoyed this. It's weird for them to be using a mono video recorder of this time. Are you the original uploader/maker of this video? If so, could you please provide some info on this? Thanks
I... I can't watch anymore, I made it to 13:00, roughly, and just cannot stand the fact that hardly none of these games are ON, turn them on, ugh... god I wonder where these games are now, and why no one didn't buy a business space big enough, and make a supercade out of these...
You wouldn't want these running with no one playing them. It would deteriorate the monitors and the board. The thing is, nowadays people stay at home and spend their money on cheap little games on their iPads. Thus running the arcades that still are in business, out of business.
Maybe I would want them on maybe for a short time, It wouldn't hurt the machines that badly... I hear your reasoning, vut seriously, honestly, if I had money to burn, I would love to own an arcade, and would be happy if I could only keep the lights and other utilities on
Jshaw71 Arcade machines in storage need to be completely checked after being stored like this for a long time. The ones that are not cannibalized need to thoroughly looked over before turning on, otherwise it could be disaster.
Thank God there are no crazy kongs there
Unreal ! I love stuff like this !
Any chance this warehouse is still in existence and these games are still there? I just started collecting arcade games and I would certainly drive a ways for an inventory like this. Insane!
Wow, that’s a stash and a half there
If that date on the video is correct , this is around the time when arcade games were getting replaced with the ticket-prize games. I used to always play arcade games at the local pizza shop or bowling alley.
yup, right around 2:50 it shows up. This video never gets old
nice.
I would snag one of those computers, motherboards, or that RCA Studio II Manual.
It's not a cemetery for arcades its renew opportunities.
I remember seeing this one..... this is the one where Kinder's SA dedicated came from. - Damon
A lot are mostly intact
What a goldmine!
My right ear enjoyed this. It's weird for them to be using a mono video recorder of this time.
Are you the original uploader/maker of this video?
If so, could you please provide some info on this?
Thanks
you can read a write-up about this warehouse raid at arcadeblogger.com/2018/01/26/arcade-raid-the-west-virginia-time-capsule/
So, where they saved or scrapped?
Oh my.
Wow wow wow. Like a treasure trove.What became of all of these?
Yes way,, I can believe that..
Does anyone know the story behind this warehouse? Like who collected all these games, why they sat collecting dust, and what happened to them later?
arcadeblogger.com/2018/01/26/arcade-raid-the-west-virginia-time-capsule/
What´s the story of this warehouse? Is it owned by a big Company or is it private? Great video anyway!
How can something like that privat??? Its even unreal for a company!
Where is this !!!
Hold me I think I'm going to faint.
nice men! but there no way its 4000 arcade games...
a fortune sitting there
4000?? How is that even possible?
I didnt see any major damage, just dirty. I would not be able to contain myself if I was walking around that.
Armor Attack 9:48 !!!!
All that and not one mortal kombat
I would have found this much more interesting if there had been some background information
arcadeblogger.com/2018/01/26/arcade-raid-the-west-virginia-time-capsule/
Somewhere Wreck it Ralph is crying.
I would buy a u haul and load machines into the truck and take em home
warehouse held 3000 of them!
goddamn.
Horror movie?
I... I can't watch anymore, I made it to 13:00, roughly, and just cannot stand the fact that hardly none of these games are ON, turn them on, ugh... god I wonder where these games are now, and why no one didn't buy a business space big enough, and make a supercade out of these...
You wouldn't want these running with no one playing them. It would deteriorate the monitors and the board.
The thing is, nowadays people stay at home and spend their money on cheap little games on their iPads.
Thus running the arcades that still are in business, out of business.
Maybe I would want them on maybe for a short time, It wouldn't hurt the machines that badly... I hear your reasoning, vut seriously, honestly, if I had money to burn, I would love to own an arcade, and would be happy if I could only keep the lights and other utilities on
Jshaw71 Sure, but I find it a bit pointless having them running with no one near by.
It might be pointless to turn them on, but it was just painful not to hear a single machine on among all of them...
Jshaw71 Arcade machines in storage need to be completely checked after being stored like this for a long time. The ones that are not cannibalized need to thoroughly looked over before turning on, otherwise it could be disaster.