Spotted in the wild

CathalDublin · 18-04-2013 04:48PM #1

Just seen a Sega Rally upright and Point blank 2(colours looked off) in apple green at Enfield.
Which got me thinking, I wonder how many cabs/pins are actually still in use in Ireland. Where/What else have you seen out there?

o1s1n · 18-04-2013 06:22PM

Posted these pics a little while ago, but definitely worth including in this thread

Spotted in Bray Bowl.

Jack burton · 18-04-2013 09:04PM

There's an old point black in the back of a college in town. must go inquire about that actually

unky chop chop · 18-04-2013 10:24PM

Those sit down electrocoins are quality.
They used to be in every bowling alley in Dublin.
Where have they all gone...some one must have a stash of them

Jack burton wrote: »

There's an old point black in the back of a college in town. must go inquire about that actually

Haa keeping your cards close to your chest.I've a day off tomorrow and I'm hitting every college in town to whip it from under our grasp.sh1t game though

the groutch · 18-04-2013 11:05PM

used to love playing Super Pang in Bray Bowl, probably still there, the owner was never one to spend money replacing stuff in a hurry.

Andrew76 · 19-04-2013 09:15AM

unky chop chop wrote: »

Haa keeping your cards close to your chest.I've a day off tomorrow and I'm hitting every college in town to whip it from under our grasp.sh1t game though

DIT Kevin St. used to have a few woodies in the "snackery". Some cabs too. :pac:

Myrddin · 19-04-2013 09:17AM

DIT Bolton Street used to have some too back yonder, can't even remember what they were...possibly some sit down driving game

TechnoFreek · 19-04-2013 11:31AM

Andrew76 wrote: »

DIT Kevin St. used to have a few woodies in the "snackery". Some cabs too. :pac:

You a DIT Kevin St alumni too. They had Time Crisus 2 there in my day! Pumped many a coin into the machine.

19-04-2013 11:38AM

I went to Kevin St too
I think they had golden tee.
A friend of mine is there at the moment,I'll find out whats there.

LoGiE · 19-04-2013 02:32PM

Holy crap those cabs have in in Bray the last 18 years easy!

o1s1n · 19-04-2013 02:33PM

LoGiE wrote: »

Holy crap those cabs have in in Bray the last 18 years easy!

They're the exact cabs I used to play Puzzle Bobble and Metal Slug 1&3 on. They haven't been on floor in years. I reckon they brought them out of storage for the BYOB nights.

CathalDublin · 20-04-2013 02:06AM

urbanledge wrote: »

I went to Kevin St too
I think they had golden tee.
A friend of mine is there at the moment,I'll find out whats there.

Nothing in there now, not in the Canteen anyway

OwaynOTT · 20-04-2013 11:09PM

Im in youghal at the moment and they have a sega rally and a bunch of other two seater racers. ****e pool table ate the white ball off the break though!
They have a mushroom that has a little cab for kids inside it also.

Optimus Prime · 21-04-2013 01:35PM

There are a few cabs in Skerries, Operation Thunderbolt, after burner, twin sega rally sitdown and one or two others.

Also in TGIs in Blanch there is a Batman Pinball table, there was a Tron one in the cinema in liffey valley but that's gone now.

o1s1n · 21-04-2013 03:58PM

Was the after burner a sit down?

Was in bray bowl last night. The Xenon was running SF2. Duets had Tekken (not sure which one) and Metal Slug 3. Was great playing Mslug 3 as it was the exact mobo and cart I played growing up! Monitor was a bit banjaxed though. Lots of pincushioning, dark and colours were murky.

I'd love to get that mobo and cart from them.

Optimus Prime · 21-04-2013 04:08PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Was the after burner a sit down?

It was a stand up one, with the handle sticking out of it.

26-04-2013 08:07AM

Was in the square yesterday so went to atari expo for a look,
not much left,

Sega rally 3 twin sit down,Super bikes 2 twin sitdown and doodle jump.
couple of crane games.

I waned a shot on sega rally but dint have time or change.

TechnoFreek · 26-04-2013 08:52AM

urbanledge wrote: »

Was in the square yesterday so went to atari expo for a look,
not much left,

Sega rally 3 twin sit down,Super bikes 2 twin sitdown and doodle jump.
couple of crane games.

I waned a shot on sega rally but dint have time or change.

Was curious to know that ad I used to go there a lot coming up from the sticks as a kid. Is it not mostly a casino now?

26-04-2013 09:09AM

Yea theres a few games just inside the door then theres doors into a casino.
I dint go in there,I guess it was full of low lifes!

TechnoFreek · 26-04-2013 09:17AM

urbanledge wrote: »

Yea theres a few games just inside the door then theres doors into a casino.
I dint go in there,I guess it was full of low lifes!

Tut tut urban! Stereotyping at its finest!

deathrider · 27-04-2013 11:28PM

Found this Ridge Racer machine in Shannon Airport about a month ago. I may have been quite happy about it. They also had a Virtua Cop (number 3, I think) and a Sega racer called Scud Racer. Feckin' pound per credit though!

o1s1n · 27-04-2013 11:35PM

Wow! Amazing seeing a stand up Ridge Racer still on site somewhere. I thought they'd all be long gone at this point.

A quid a go is crazy. They'd probably make more money in the long run if it was 50c.

deathrider · 27-04-2013 11:43PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Wow! Amazing seeing a stand up Ridge Racer still on site somewhere. I thought they'd all be long gone at this point.

A quid a go is crazy. They'd probably make more money in the long run if it was 50c.

Possibly. I was just stunned that the place had a tiny little arcade corner! I would have blown all my cash there if I had of had enough time.
Also, there are a few machines in Funstastia in Drogheda. Nothing old, but they've got After Burner: Climax and 18 Wheeler, which are always worth a go... again a pound a pop though.

Myrddin · 28-04-2013 12:07PM

Kinda cool seeing the Ridge Racer cab in the wild, knowing I own one! Also cool seeing another one of its ilk, as I never seen them in the wild back in the days of yonder

CathalDublin · 02-11-2013 07:27PM

Friend of mine just posted this on facebook
It's going into Fibbers:eek:

Dr Bob · 02-11-2013 07:38PM

Andrew76 wrote: »

DIT Kevin St. used to have a few woodies in the "snackery". Some cabs too. :pac:

From memory ( cos I went there in the early nineties) .. in the mini arcade room off at the side of the snackery there was ..pacland . Pang. A dodgy hk street fighter II bootleg (rainbow? ) a 1000 miles rally..and I think there was a lethal enforcers and a black tiger. Out in the snackery there was a mk cab and ...I think a f1 twin...
Good times:)

KeRbDoG · 03-11-2013 08:52AM

CathalDublin wrote: »

Friend of mine just posted this on facebook
It's going into Fibbers:eek:

That right there is about €5~6k of pinball table - the newer stern pinball tables be expensive!

Shapey Fiend · 03-11-2013 12:10PM

deathrider wrote: »

Found this Ridge Racer machine in Shannon Airport about a month ago. I may have been quite happy about it. They also had a Virtua Cop (number 3, I think) and a Sega racer called Scud Racer. Feckin' pound per credit though!

Scud Racer is the best arcade racer of all time. That precise machine has been in various places in Clare since the 90's and there's always something broken on it.

They've got a GTI Club (original) in the main lobby after security. Think there might be an upright Sega Rally upstairs as well but I don't know if it's still there.

zilog_jones · 06-11-2013 01:58AM

There was an upright 18 Wheeler in Shannon airport too, upstairs by the canteen. It wasn't there the last time I was there though, so maybe moved somewhere else or gone completely?

Fun World in Limerick (Ennis Road, next to Supermac's) still had Virtua Tennis, a large sit-down 18 Wheeler (rear projector screen), Time Crisis 2 and a few other semi-classics. Looking quite run-down these days...

RichyX · 06-11-2013 02:18PM

Cork airport had a stand up Sega Touring Car Championship cab just inside the terminal a few years ago.
They had another machine too, possibly Sega Rally 1 or 2, can't remember.

Hardly seems worth listing what Century City has.

sparkthatbled · 06-11-2013 03:00PM

What happens to all of the old arcade machines? Given that most of the arcades in this country are just full of slot machines now, did they sell their old games or (worst fear) did they dump them? I used to spend a fortune in Atari Expo in the square playing Sega Rally, House Of The Dead, Point Blank etc, but my favourite one was tucked away in the corner and nobody else seemed to give it a second look. It was called Vapor TRX, anyone remember it? It was a Wipeout type futuristic hover racer with weapons, but rather than random weapons to pick up each racer had it's own weapon and you picked up upgrades.

Spotted in the wild

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