Hi arcade guys,
let me show you my newest pickup.
But first, how did I find it? Well to be honest, 99% of the time, I just look at our local online portal like "willhaben" or at the german "kleinanzeigen" beside offers from specialized vendors like "blackforest warehouse" and others. But a few weeks ago, I thought to myself, why dont you have a look at... "le bon coin".
So I scrolled down the offers and then I saw a newer laser pistol game in an almost known cab. The seller was from southern france and he had 2 pictures with his offer, and on the sideart, I saw THATS one of the games im looking for!
( sorry, I didnt make pictures from the offer, this is a small picture I have found and I upsized it )
The biggest struggle is, well I dont speak french, but I want to buy from an french operator - he runs a business in Tohubohu fun park in Montauban and he is selling off stuff.
Luckily in the age of AI, I just used and online translator. Well, even with an translator, there were misunderstandings - the seller thought I will accept the money transfer from le boin coin AFTER the pickup of the game, which was never my goal.
So after clearing all misunderstandings, I have asked the AI about costs for a roadtrip single way, and with all the tall stations on the highways, but that wasnt an option ( 350 or so + renting a van! ).
By the way, I have asked my local transport company, they gave me an offer for 500,-
. Again, I had a chat with the AI, asking for european based transport platforms and one of them was "clicktrans.de". I registrated myself there and wow, I was surprised how easy it went. You literarely fill up what type, size and weight you want to move from point A to point B and then you just wait. It didnt take long and the first offers came in: 600, 625, 570... :'( then after 2-3 hours, I got one for 377 - yeah, thats cheaper than my local company. I thought thats an nice offer but the next offer was about 350. And suddenly, the company which offered me 370 went down to about 325!!
So I selected him ( every other offer will then get canceled ) and then, the only thing was left is to made a pickup date.
One sidenote, I told the transport company we have to set a delivery date since I spent a lot of hours this week at the office. Yeah no problem, they will call me. Guess what happened? Yesterday, my neighbour called me, there is a truckdriver on their access road, and he wants to deliver a huge crate ( where is the facepalm smiley?
). Luckily, the druck driver loaded the pallet into my driveway and the neighbours signed it for me.
So after the huge textwall, finally I can show you some pictures:
And after unpacking it, here it is:
It is egg venture!!
Nobody else has this game listed on vaps on klov, maybe because it isnt that good? And yes, off course I bought it because of Dragons Lair 2!
So what are the future plans for that "non stonehenge version"?
Putting all that egg venture stuff out of the cab, redoing the cab artwork and since there is no laser disc player and original hardware inside, I will put that miniboard in it, where I can play DL1, 2 and other laser disc games. So finally, I have found an dragons lair cab and I am fine with one cab ( space, you know?
) playing all these games.
non roadtrip:
france - germany - austria, 0 km for me ( 1500 or more for the transport company )
to be continued...
