I spotted an ad on Craigslist for a guy that had a bunch of old games from the
Seattle Center Fun Forest from back in the '70s and early '80s. After emailing
back and forth he sent me a list of the games and he had well over 100 and for
the video games I was interested in, they were only $50. I told him I wanted the
Rip Off and Star Hawk, two old black and white vectors that are fairly rare and
headed up the next day. Unfortunately he sold the Rip Off by the time I got there...
lame, but you snooze, you lose in the arcade collecting hobby! Anyway, I bought the
Cinematronics Starhawk. It is very clean and complete, though not working as expected.
All the games in the basement and shop (vids and ems) were all complete, lifted off the
ground on wood palletes with wheels, and dirty and a little rusty from being there 20
years. There were lots of cool EM shooter, rifle and driving games, some were quite
huge. A great looking sit-down Night Driver. A yellow Computer Space that was working,
but he knew it's value. I took a bunch of pix just because the scope of old games was so
massive I figured other people would be interested in checking them out:
From all reports, most, if not all of these games have now been sold:
The first look in spotting my Starhawk
A few of the EM rifle games
The legendary first stand-up arcade game Computer Space
Cool looking upended driving game and Haunted House EM:
A nice looking sit-down Night Driver lurking in the corner
1975 Exidy Alley Rally driver I considered buying for it's cool artwork
A bunch more EM rifle games
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