Space Invaders II sold

I had filled my garage with arcade cabinets after my little local roadtrip. Luckily I got them all moved inside before the snow fell. As you may remember, I have plans for most of the six Space Invaders cabs that I picked up:

• I am keeping one blue (SI1) and one red (SI2) for myself.
• My friend who helped me tidy the op's garage is getting a blue cab.
• My friend Arch is buying one blue and one red cab.

That left one, which I put up for sale on the local Craigslist equivalent. I honestly thought that it would sell fairly quickly. Even though the inside of the cabinet is pretty much gutted it still had a Hantarex monitor and a switching power supply, and when did you last see a Taito Space Invaders cabinet in Norway? In 1985, that's when!

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A very short road trip, with a great outcome!

As the title says, I've been on a very short road trip, but the outcome was great! I've picked up several classic cabinets just minutes from home!
But first, let me take you to the beginning of this story. It actually started some years ago. It was common knowledge in the pinball community in my town that an ex operator had some old arcade cabinets stored in his garage. Luckily the pinball fans are just that: pinball fans. They were not very interested in these video games, and so the games stayed untouched for years.

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