this morning i woke up thinking to myself, "how about doing something crazy? how about doing something adventurous? how about doing some lost places exploration?". so i took out my roadtrip location map and indeed found a nice spot in the middle of nowhere i hadn't been to yet (believe me, those places really exist
). after getting some safety instructions, letting everyone know where i was headed to and writing my last will i jumped into my car ...
... and headed off
into the wild!
after some confusing navigating, i arrived at an abandoned building. i knew i had to be right, because - as we've learned from mr indiana jones himself - the X marks the spot
after i had found a way in, this is what the building looked like inside
puh, didn't look very promising, but when i turned around a corner, my eyes lit up and my heart began beating faster!
from here on out, things got better and better! in an adjacent room, two more cabinets nicely stored away
the right cab was generic, but the left one looked promising, but couldn't be reached from up front, so i had to climb on top of it, hold out my camera and hope for some nice shots. here they are
everything seems to be there, apart from one tiny piece: THE F***ING LASERDISK PLAYER!!! but who cares?
anyway, when i looked up i saw a collapsed floor right above me
i had to get up there, no matter what, so i looked around and found a cute stairway leading upwards
the same stairway viewed from above! as you can see, the lower section of it has already collapsed ...
when i looked around again, i saw nothing but dirt, wooden planks, metal bars and decay!
but wait a minute, what's that over there, in the tiny room at the very end?
HA - I KNEW IT!!!
although dirty and rusty, the games seem to be in ok condition
after removing some dirt, the space encounters' control panel looked fabulous!
however, i'm not 100% sure whether the monitor had been necked or not, upon first inspection i thought yes, but i'm not so sure anymore ...
the sides of the space zap would come out nicely once cleaned up
unfortunately, not all the boards were present anymore
of the four upstairs cabs, the battlezone looks the best inside, only one pcb is missing!
and then there's universal's cosmic alien, apart from the missing marquee it is complete
from what i could tell, everything's there on the inside as well!
finally, i found a great (non-arcade related) item:
a super(ully) massator!!! hilarious, isn't it?
thus ended my roadtrip adventure today. i had an incredible time exploring the premises and there's so much more i could tell (and show) you, but i can't give away anything else for now!
but rest assured:
this hasn't been my last trip into the wild ...
