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@darrenbushby1723
3 ай бұрын
I wish I'd known you was in Bedfordshire! I have a Bang & Olufsen BeoCenter 1 in full working order that you could have picked up in the van too. Free obviously for the cave! I believe it matches the one you already have.
@Markchill2
2 ай бұрын
did you release a part 2 for this and is there a playlist sorry if I am blind
@PollokPoochesDogWalking
3 ай бұрын
There's a moral to this story... If you're going to jam a container full of stuff for long-term storage, always stick some arcade cabinets in the back to ensure that when you clear it out 10 years later a team of people will turn up and help you with a van 😂
@ChrisEbz
3 ай бұрын
JAMA container? 😎
@PXAbstraction
3 ай бұрын
This video was both fascinating and exceedingly painful at the same time. Those poor cabinets.
@furrymessiah
3 ай бұрын
The Cave really could do with an appliance dolly. Longer rails on the back which can have protective padding attached, locations for straps to tie down the loads, and many models feature an additional set of wheels to either tilt the load back at 45° or 90° without the operator bearing the weight.
@bewilderbeestie
3 ай бұрын
Also, a stair-climbing trolley. Every time I see them wrestling something up or down stairs I cringe.
@PrayingToTheAlien
3 ай бұрын
Bigger wheels too - make stairs a breeze
@SonicMrSumo
3 ай бұрын
"it's even trying to be helpful and flat-pack itself" 🤣
@Choralone422
3 ай бұрын
I really feel for Mike! I went through a similar time of enormous upheaval in my life in the 2000s with having to move 3 times in 4 years time being only part of it. Through all of that I managed to in one way or another lose many, many possessions from my teen and early adult years including most of my offline digital life that went back to the early 90s. I'm sure going through that storage container had to be hard to do emotionally!
@mikewifak
3 ай бұрын
I have rarely identified with a human posture as much as I did with Richard riding in the middle seat.
@rchilton
3 ай бұрын
Saaaaame
@steviepaperboy154
3 ай бұрын
Lol I was just thinking that
@davidrenton
3 ай бұрын
we need a road trip series , where the gang go around the world searching through rubbish tips, old abandoned warehouses and closed down malls for those elusive PCB's and weird controllers
@carpespasm
3 ай бұрын
Recover, Restore, Revive, Retro. Holly, and the boys are off to save yet another bulky and musty machine, then restore it to a state worthy of sticky fingers and freshly laid UV-reactive space and confetti themed black carpet. Get it done without the annoying usual TV production sidebar interviews and forced drama, and the like and we'll be watching for years
@FredBloggs919
3 ай бұрын
“Some People Call This Junk. Me? I Call It Treasure.”
@FatNorthernBigot
3 ай бұрын
All this reminds of an 80's adventure game. A secret room full of treasure. Finding keys which unlock a cabinet. Was there a wizard in the back?
@torquetheprisoner
3 ай бұрын
with less moon logic
@CantankerousDave
3 ай бұрын
Ne, just more mold behind that other forest of mold and rat droppings.
@FatNorthernBigot
3 ай бұрын
@@CantankerousDave You mean signs of a mysterious beast. 😂
@expendable7281
3 ай бұрын
Solomans key
@tonyupham354
3 ай бұрын
Saving that Gauntlet is more important than saving Operation Wolf..... but great work salvaging what ever you could. I collect lots of stuff, consoles.. games, figures and video game memorabilia... I am just very thankful my container is weather proofed!
@GreySectoid
3 ай бұрын
Your channel is a treasure for every retro hobbyist :)
@RMCRetro
3 ай бұрын
Hey thanks Terry
@bewilderbeestie
3 ай бұрын
I do wonder if Heber knew what they were getting into when they rented their attic to RMC.
@Metadas
3 ай бұрын
Having been to the Cave and seen all the awesome work you achieve, I have no doubt you'll get these running again in some form.
@ChromeClanDesigns
3 ай бұрын
This channel has quickly become one of my favorites
@RMCRetro
3 ай бұрын
Thank you
@prodelboy2743
3 ай бұрын
Mine too
@SidneyCritic
3 ай бұрын
I worked in industrial sandblasting for 7 years and that rust doesn't worry me, because I know you can blast it to white metal, ie, class 3. I myself built a blasting cabinet, and coupled with a decent compressor, it comes in quite handy.
@Chris-yc3mm
3 ай бұрын
Love the music and the car scenes in the intro to these series. 👍really sets the mood
@Ash_18037
3 ай бұрын
Some nice old stuff at least, shame about the cabinet damage. 15:52 I really wish the word intrepidation existed. Is he fearful or is he fearless, who knows! Also, got to love those one handed pickups of precious old hardware, adds a real sense of fear to the video.
@ImmortalThanos
3 ай бұрын
There's a lesson to be learned here. If you're going to stash your arcades away in a dank storage unit, then just sell the games to someone that will enjoy and care for them instead.
@Nukle0n
3 ай бұрын
At least make sure it's dry? All the problems here is because it was practically raining in causing everything to rot and rust.
@robintst
3 ай бұрын
Or go with an indoor climate controlled storage facility.
@tgheretford
3 ай бұрын
I'd argue the same thing with attics. My mate damaged a Sega Saturn by storing it in a damp, variable temperature place, assuming that it would fine in there because it's inside a house.
@lookitskazzy
3 ай бұрын
@@Nukle0n This is the real lesson here. Outdoor storage particularly in shipping containers is not safe from the elements, especially water. You can see clearly that everything got hit by water damage down to the floorboards. If this had been stored indoors let alone a climate controlled facility, would've been dusty but largely intact. My view is if you're not going to store it properly and you have no plans to get it out of there within a few years, it's best to sell. But proper storage is important in either case. I think this guy intended to get back to this stuff sooner than he did, and life got in the way. Then it just got away from him.
@vertecies
3 ай бұрын
Owner had no plan to sell them in mint new condition. People do not have know-how and skills to restore or retromod their storage space electronics. It was left and forgotten. It was kept because of memories. Time goes on and things get broken until someone cleans place or sells it as is. Normal life.
@OliverMay1
3 ай бұрын
Commodore Plus/4!!!!!!!! That's a real blast down memory lane for me! It was the family computer when I was a wee lad and I have fond memories of loading games on the tape deck with my dad and waiting (and waiting, and waiting) for them to load. I'm stretching my memory back almost 40 years but I can remember playing Frogger on tape, as well as some text based adventure games on cassettes. This was the machine that got me into computers and games.
@zoid9969
3 ай бұрын
Ooh, a Brother M1109 printer. That takes me back. I had a Centronics GLP printer, which was a rebranded version. Even in the late 1980s, it was slow.
@nickblackburn1903
3 ай бұрын
Oh the horror. Gauntlet and operation wolf are two of my favourite arcade games too. 😢 😮
@cartayno
3 ай бұрын
"RMC Pickers" 😂👍🏻 Brilliant video 😊
@skyway73
3 ай бұрын
Could aee that was a Marble Madness straight away, one of my favourites. Heartbreaking to see all the damage 😢
@KieronWray
3 ай бұрын
great vid, thanks for sharing, fascinating but feel really sorry for Mike with the storage, that must be heartbreaking
@wraithcadmus
3 ай бұрын
23:38 - "You have sustained a lethal injury. Sorry, but you are finished... here." 😔
@imnickleonard
3 ай бұрын
“Tod’s Video Games and More” has some fab restorations for Arcades. I have hope.
@RetroRicc
3 ай бұрын
Both painful and amazing to watch. And what an absolutely flying start it got off to with an OutRun replacement for the arcade, can’t wait to give it a go. Such a shame that Operation Wolf was in a state, at least you already have one and I really hope Gauntlet and Marble Madness can be saved
@amigacoverdisk
3 ай бұрын
Great video, Thanks! Love these treasure hunts!
@vicenary
3 ай бұрын
There are certainly some candidates for astonishing restorations in this collection. I hope there are plenty of items you can do something useful with.
@idahofur
3 ай бұрын
Just waiting for the small Tardis to faze away. :) Perhaps you can call Unit to come and pick it up. :p
@timmyers9798
3 ай бұрын
Gauntlet WOW! Was such a cool game back in the day. "Wizard needs to be restored, badly!"...
@mwk1
3 ай бұрын
"Wizard needs food, badly!" 😎
@nickwallette6201
3 ай бұрын
Haha.. this is what I often hear on the weekend, as my wife wakes up, looks wearily at me, and says, "Red sorceress needs coffee badly." :-D
@mattnordsell9760
3 ай бұрын
I would love to be able to visit the cave if I ever get over to the UK. I've been a long-time subscriber of the channel, back when it was still the Retro Man Cave and I remember the video where you announced the name change.
@Uploadingvirus
3 ай бұрын
wonderful bit of Saturday afternoon viewing, looks like a mess but also a bit of an adventure
@RDJ134
3 ай бұрын
Nothing Mark and the crew cant fix ;) Serious salvage, clean and rebuilt even then most stuff will have a second life.
@robinreportsuk
3 ай бұрын
Gauntlet and Operation Wolf.😢At least you got all those lovely PCB game boards, and outrun only played that once may years ago on a cabinet, I hope you save a lot here. Good Luck, you will sadly need it.
@JonHarrisTech
3 ай бұрын
Ah, such a shame to see Crystal Maze fall apart. I'd say it'd be a bit of a mental, physical, mystery & skill challenge all rolled into one. If it were working, i'd be thinking of my time acting as games tester for the reboot of the show a few years back, whilst playing it. I must get on with my own arcade controller projects....
@melvoid01
3 ай бұрын
We had a flood a few years back in our outside shed, the ceiling seal went and I lost a lot to the water damage and didn't know about it for a long time, till the better weather appeared and I opened the shed looking for some old games to find all the horrible things that had gone on (R.I.P. original big box SotB) this vid gave me PTSD (lol) good luck with the reclamation looking forward to the Trash to Treasure series.
@3dPrintedSoup
3 ай бұрын
A heart breaking watch. Hope you guys are able to salvage as much as you can.
@ReallyRandom-gf3ih
3 ай бұрын
You guys have inspired me to build my own arcade machine. I’m starting tomorrow. Thank you
@djm9937
3 ай бұрын
Wow ! what a truly wonderful find..AND ! you dodged the rain!
@mysticgreg
3 ай бұрын
"Guys... wait for me!!!" - classic ending.
@wonderdog8895
3 ай бұрын
Ooooft... Those poor Operation Wolf/Gauntlet cabs... I was hoping for a bit of a TV miracle but as you worked towards them I realised it was getting less and less likely... Good effort recovering what you could. I think using the cabs as a template to make some modern repro's would be cool though!
@mustard_barley
3 ай бұрын
A retro rebuild of that OpWolf cab would be awesome 😁
@michaelmiller641
3 ай бұрын
Yes i did enjoy digging through the trash there!
@WhatHoSnorkers
3 ай бұрын
So many wonderful machines! I love them all!
@jbmaru
3 ай бұрын
Nice find! Maybe what remains of that Operation Wolf cabinet can be used as a model for a repro one still using some of the original parts.
@RetroGamesBoy78
3 ай бұрын
Fun to watch but sad at times too! I must say I'd have been happy just to have the machine gun from the Op Wolf Cabinet mounted on a block of wood just as a display piece, how cool would that be?! but i do hope you can get it back to its former glory, along with the other machines too! 👍
@Zanzubaa
3 ай бұрын
I could smell the mustiness through my screen. What a gold mine though.
@EsotericArctos
3 ай бұрын
I hope you get a chance to rebuild the cabinets and restore the machines that were badly damaged. They are all great games and deserve a new chance at life
@thetechnoshed
3 ай бұрын
I'm not sure 'intrepidation' is a word, but I kind of like its connotations! (15:50)
@tommylee4350
3 ай бұрын
I loved the crystal maze when it was in pubs.
@P5ychoFox
3 ай бұрын
Some great restoration projects coming up!
@MrDuncl
3 ай бұрын
That CRT without a rim-guard looked worrying. I spotted several CRT TVs amongst the "junk". Those are becoming valuable themselves. I sold a 21" one to a student, younger than the TV, who wanted to build a MAME cabinet.
@QOTSAPT
3 ай бұрын
the mouldy tubes if they are capable of working they will flicker at first and then they'll slowly become brighter and regain focus, sometimes after many many hours they'll end up as good as new but other times they won't.
@richardcooper
3 ай бұрын
I have a single X-Arcade Stick I bought back in the day, had to replace the PCB inside and update it from PS/2 to USB last year :)
@JohnWatkinsUK
3 ай бұрын
Wow, a 20ft container like this near me (Exeter) is about £150/month. Spending £18K to "store" that lot for 10 years is insane.
@KJW648
3 ай бұрын
I have Marble Madness boards, power supply and track balls, in my shed going spare 😮
@RMCRetro
3 ай бұрын
Hi, if you might be interested in helping out please contact me using the form at www.retrocollective.co.uk/contact.php thanks so much
@filecore
3 ай бұрын
Just wonder how many more cabs are sitting in damp containers. Quite a lot I expect!
@burnrubber7547
3 ай бұрын
Wow what a container of stuff. Amazing.
@RobbieNate
3 ай бұрын
do hope that maybe youd do some vids on restoring the arcade cabs, love those type of vids! thank you for sharing this with us!
@RMCRetro
3 ай бұрын
We will be testing the boards and restoring the arcades on www.youtube.com/@thearcadearchive
@HalianTheProtogen
3 ай бұрын
9:48 _Project Gotham Racing 4_ is one of my favorite 360 games. :D
@Lilithe
3 ай бұрын
This episode was both fascinating and distressing
@FoxMccloud42
3 ай бұрын
23:35 I would go with evaporust or look for mechanic shop who does have special ultrasonic cleaning and rust removing baths for the metalparts. Sandblasting can be hard for such filigree stuff.
@RMCRetro
3 ай бұрын
Good idea thank you
@brandtharen
3 ай бұрын
I'll second the evaporust recommendation. That is a way to convert rust back to iron and then you can properly evaluate and prepare the metal for restoration.
@mikedefoy
3 ай бұрын
A win win. You got free parts, and the owner didn't have to pay anyone to haul it away, nor pay for permits, nor an ongoing monthly storage fee.
@communalnoodle1356
3 ай бұрын
Well, with some of the things we've seen you (and Mark, where's he been?) turn from trash to treasure, these cabinets probably have their best chance
@RMCRetro
3 ай бұрын
Mark is still around, just a very busy chap on his own channel. He came for cake and Heber's 40th birthday party last week
@communalnoodle1356
3 ай бұрын
@@RMCRetro Good to hear!
@jason_a_smith_gb
3 ай бұрын
Holly Fixes Neil’s Stuff.
@DronePilot23
3 ай бұрын
I would love to come along and play destroy all humans on the xbox. Memories of college
@jinxterx
3 ай бұрын
One can only imagine what else is rotting away in all those containers.
@Capt.Marco-Hawk-L.L.A.P
3 ай бұрын
Gauntlet wow love that game spent many hours playing it
@retroimportgamer513
3 ай бұрын
The first pickup was fantastic, greatest game of all time Such a shame about the container, damp really does destroy things, sad to see glorious items left to rot like that. Hopefully you can fix a lot of it up👍
@FrankHolder-v9e
3 ай бұрын
Outrun? good but not even in the top 200 tbh
@brianm6337
3 ай бұрын
Send the beers to Ashens.
@moloch5801
3 ай бұрын
That's got to be why they were in the keep pile, surely!
@phillscott5221
3 ай бұрын
I came to post this too 😂
@Ginsoakedboy21
3 ай бұрын
Get those beers over to @Ashens!
@BubblegumCrash332
3 ай бұрын
That operation wolf cabinet would be a 5 hour restoration video lol
@chrisrobson8540
3 ай бұрын
i feel like i need a wash and im not even there lol......nice goodies though......should keep you (and us) in vids for a while😷😷 I see many local chipboard suppliers clapping their hands lol
@JopieHaargel
3 ай бұрын
"Guess I'll just put these decades old electronics in an unisolated, metal box for years." - Someone who's bad at gambling This was heart wrenching to watch. At the same time, the prospect of about 35 trash-to-treasure videos fills me with joy. What a ton of work this must have been (and still will be...!)
@notneb82
3 ай бұрын
Is this a common method for off-site storage in the UK? Shipping containers are not made for long-term storage, just a couple of weeks at sea.
@EB01
3 ай бұрын
That was a painful watch in many places.
@frankowalker4662
3 ай бұрын
That Out Run cabinet is a chunky machine. 🤣
@frankie5671
3 ай бұрын
The gun on operation 🐺 😮
@GaryLiddington
2 ай бұрын
100% need to get those Guitar Hero games set up :)
3 ай бұрын
👍😄, Super rescue retro Game
@faenethlorhalien
3 ай бұрын
Cor blimey, that's a lot of gunk.
@OneSwitch
3 ай бұрын
Nature wants everything back. Good luck fighting the tide. That Gauntlet is a miracle compared to the Operation Wolf. Much better game too in my book. Good luck with the Marble Madness.
@AltimaNEO
3 ай бұрын
Make sure to replace the clock capacitor on those Xboxes. They tend to leak and cause damage.
@meteor9racing
3 ай бұрын
Possibly too late to mention but 'way of the tiger' might also be capcom's 'tiger road'?
@125scratch2
3 ай бұрын
It probably is, given that the Japanese title is 虎への道
@808v1
3 ай бұрын
that gauntlet is totally salvageable
@MrTomFTW
3 ай бұрын
I assume those beers are going straight to Ashens 😁
@rchilton
3 ай бұрын
🤘 retro road trip music!!!! 🤘
@dant5464
3 ай бұрын
3:40 did they decapitate an iMac to make a GX4000 stand?
@RMCRetro
3 ай бұрын
Hah I didn't spot that!
@app0the
3 ай бұрын
they sell cellphone stands shaped like that these days so it might be that
@robintst
3 ай бұрын
Some of the cabinets were a bust but that was a decent haul on everything else.
@killerbee2562
3 ай бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't take the toshiba CRT television.
@RMCRetro
3 ай бұрын
We did! Richard made me help him carry it to the top of the mill!
@Kumimono
3 ай бұрын
Hmmm, I do wonder if the wolf artwork can be used. Painted or some kind of, vinyl wrapping? I suspect you might need a carpenter in the future. :)
@magicknight8412
3 ай бұрын
It's hard to believe the arcade cabs went in there in perfect condition.So sad to see how they ended up
@cbmeeks
3 ай бұрын
Great video but I had to watch it front of a mirror so that you were driving on the right side of the road. LOL
@jamesmacintosh4009
3 ай бұрын
Another brilliant video !
@eliotcole
3 ай бұрын
I still want to find out where these raids get found out about ... because the one forum I know of (UKV) seems to be just old raids.
@HunTaoLee
3 ай бұрын
It would be nice if you have those heavy duty stair trolley (mounted with 3 wheels on each side) for transporting.
@drwedders
3 ай бұрын
Surprised that these they don't add some vents to these containers before they're used for storage
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