Midway's 1969 Sea Raider arcade
This was my only coin operated amusement road trip of 2022.
I don't go on arcade roadtrips much anymore,
partly because I'm out of space for machines, but that never stopped me before.
But mostly for misanthropic reasons...
Already in 2019 I was completely fed up with everything and everyone. The last three years have been a complete gong show and my misanthropy has grown by a order of magnitude since.
But a repair dude has got to repair and I got bored.
So I looked at the classifieds... and found a lot of two 1969 Midway Sea Raiders. The games were sold as a pair, non-working untouched warehouse finds at a very reasonable price... 300 kilometers from home.
A quick look at at the cabinet dimensions from the flyer: 23 inches deep meant that I could theoretically fit both game in the back of the minivan. So I took a chance.
The road trip was uneventful except for terrible gas station coffee.
The seller was dubious the games would fit in the back of my van but in the end it worked out. With about 1 inch to spare.
I unloaded the games at my Freundin's place and fixed them up over the holiday season.
