Pinball / Arcade Raid / Stash Africa Style!
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- So, in 2017 a mate of mine called me and the conversation went like this...
Mate - "I've found a stash of pinballs do you fancy going with me to take a look?"
Me - "Sounds interesting, where is it?"
Mate - "You'll never guess"
Me - "Give me a clue at least!"
Mate - "The last place you'd guess"
Me - F me mate, that's not a clue, Europe, Eastern Europe?"
Mate - "No, farther"
Me - "I give up, Africa!"
Mate - "Yep!!"
Me - "Shit, really, where in Africa?"
Mate - "The last place you want to go!"
Me - "Seaira Leone or Zimbabwe"
Mate - "Yep, Zimbabwe!"
Me - "Shut up, really!"
And so it began, apparently I was the only person he knew that was stupid enough to say yes! We flew out for 5 days with a plan, see the machines, do the deal, get a container there (already waiting for us to hit the button), load it and get the hell out of Dodge.
It didn't quite work out like that, we were picked up from Harare airport by the contacts nephew who's girlfriend said to me "do you like to party?". Now me being quite naive said "yeah, sure, whatever" so there began a 4 day bender!!!! Never done it before or since but what an experience. The deal wasn't done (they were a little bit slippery to deal with to be honest) and I think the machines are still out there but we discovered a phrase when we were there, "If its too fucked for Europe, send it to Africa" and these had had a hard life in Zim until Mugabe started his land grab, when you can't afford food you aren't going to be putting money in pinball machines!! Totally Fucked country with over 90% unemployment. Mad experience, wouldn't change it for the world :-)
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That is monumental amount of potential restoration work. Overwhelming.
This has to be the saddest video I have ever viewed. There are few words to describe how terrible I feel looking at the state of these pins.
There was a store in my childhood hometown Toledo, Ohio that sold pinball machines of all vintages. My father use to take me there quite a bit when we lived there. There was the store front and then there was storage in the back which looked exactly like the shot at 3:00. The store closed sometime last year for good. We never bought anything from him, but I remember seeing a Taxi there at the time, crazy to think how back then it was still a relatively new machine. Cool to see that these places are still around even if they're uncommon.
WOW! What a story and so many great pinballs in there!
You found misfit island. I wanna cry
Wow, that first outside part brought a tear to my eye, but then OMFG, I felt like a kid in Willy Wonka's factory!! I'm dying to know how much you bought and how much you paid. There are enough games and parts to satisfy the entire pin & vid community years! I could easily spent a year in there. Thanks for sharing, and would love to know and see more. ✌️
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Wow this is insane! Thanks for sharing!
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@@808zhu Crazy eh bro!!!! Just insane!!!!!
How do places like this still exist?
Bring them back!
Wow! A lot of Premier era Gottlieb pins!
My guess is that these machines were operated in France before ending up here. That country always had many Gottliebs. Rare titles like Spirit, Punk and Striker used to be a lot less rare over there.
@@jaspervaneeden3146 I think you’re right! Seems to be that a lot of those System 80s were shipped overseas
Trust my good friend Alpha 1 to be there 😂 I remember when he made that visit, crazy.
seeing that Bad Cats makes me sad. That is one of my holy grail pins I wish I owned.
That would be a great arcade room
Great place to grab some machines to fix unless it's destroyed beyond repair
Unbelievable and incredibly sad at the same time. Thank you for sharing! (no audio?)
Buck Rogers pinball machine for sale?
Crazy, how much of it did you buy? It would take 10 guys a lifetime to fix all this... and the space required to make sense of it would be massive too...
Read the description. He didn't buy anything. He tried to make a deal, but the owners were too slippery and dishonest. The owners would not commit to a deal. So he left with nothing but enjoyed the experience.
What could have helped being hungover trying to make the deal. 😂
Where is this. I want to buy all
Great video, no audio.
omg - a lotta crap but a lot of potential to pick thru! - sad they couldn't deal -
do you know who owns this wonder? and how to try to contact him??
How much where they asking for and how much did you want to pay?
Wow there was a lot there, did you take the cat back as well? lol
I want to buy some do you have to location and contact
There's no sound
Where is this place?
Soooo sad....😢
et dire que ici ont ce bat pour trouvé des pièces introuvable . j'ai trouvé la caverne d'Alibaba . la seule chance pour ces flippers ses qu'il sont au sec en afric
Good lord
Wtf?? How and why so many machines? And so many in terrible condition just gathering dust. And only like 6 good condition machines to play? Is he restoring some of them to put on location? Or are all the ones gathering dust for sale? That's just crazy. 😲🤷♂
Geez mang.
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Where is this ? Are they selling pins?
Wow very saddening 😞
I don't understand. Were these stolen ❓
No. Just a storage warehouse in Africa that had a bunch of old gaming and amusement machines that no one wanted.
@@TheBigExclusive That is so horrible. A lot of those games looked awesome 👍😎
I am not feeling so bad about the number of projects i have…