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    Arcade Game Pickups: Container Load of Arcades!

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    Happy as a pig in shit!

    ​Last week, I was browsing Facebook marketplace for more projects to buy that I don't have time for (as you do). Most of the time this is an innocent way to waste some time in between meetings or during my lunch break. But last week was not so innocent. I actually found an interesting listing. It was a listing for a bulk lot of arcade cabinets which were in a storage container. The description didn't say much more than that, and there were no photos. The listing was local to me, so I contacted the seller, got his phone number, and gave him a call to get the down-low
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    The Pinball Bug

    If you talk to any serious pinball collector (particularly those that have several games), they all seem to have one thing in common. At some point, they get bitten by the pinball bug. They buy their first machine and have an absolute blast restoring, fixing, or playing it. They squeeze this first game into a room somewhere in the house, regardless of whether or not they actually have the space for it. The machine keeps them occupied for weeks. They spend all of their free time on it. And before you know it... boom! The person you used to know is gone; replaced by a mad, pinball-addicted collector who trolls eBay and Gumtree constantly in search of pinball machines for sale.