The Tragedy Of A Former Navy Bases Arcade Games.You might remember last year we told you about a raid on an old ship that managed to save a bunch of classic arcade games.Now lets see what happens when a raid doesnt have such a happy ending.Directed by Steven E.Souza. With JeanClaude Van Damme, Raul Julia, MingNa Wen, Damian Chapa.Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the.Link heard about the games when he bought an old Street Fighter II cabinet, learning from the seller that the bases huge mess hallofficers clubwhere the.A Japanese brochure for the arcade version of Street Fighter II, featuring the original eight main characters.Clockwise from top E.Honda, Zangief, Ken, Blanka.Tony Temple has written one hell of a story about a raid on the The Duke of Lancaster, a beachedRead more Read.Tony Temple, who wrote up the nicer story from 2.Ralph Link, who found out there was a massive stash of old arcade cabinets sitting in Argentia, a former US Navy base in Newfoundland.Link heard about the games when he bought an old Street Fighter II cabinet, learning from the seller that the bases huge mess hallofficers clubwhere the SFII game had originatedhad at one point been home to 4.Argentia was the only spot on Newfoundland where they were legal.Arriving at Argentia to investigate the lead, Link quickly found that the sitenow being converted to a private marijuana growing facilitywas no longer housing the cabinets.Instead, theyd been taken to a scrap yard four hours drive from the base.And that was where their story ended, because every single one of them had been smashed up so that they could fit into dumpsters ready for transportation. The Ultimate Blackjack System Executive . The tragedy here isnt just that the games had been smashed.Its that Link had only just missed them.A week earlier these arcade cabinets had been sitting in the mess hall alongside the Street Fighter game that Link had purchased.It was only during the time between buying that cabinet and making it out to Newfoundland that everything had been hauled off and destroyed.Ralph managed to salvage a few spare parts from the trash pile, and the trip wasnt a complete bust three cabinets including a WWF game and the pinball title Raven had been left behind at the old base, which he managed to recover.But the rest was toast.And Ralph estimates the worth of the rubble to be around CAD2.USD1. 6,5. 00. Ouch.You can read the complete account of the trip at Tonys site, while Link has his own Facebook page dedicated to Newfoundlands arcade and pinball scene.
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