[allenu]

I have a similar story. I was working at Microsoft and part of the internal arcade alias. One day, somebody on there mentioned a team was moving buildings and had some arcade cabinets in their storage room that they had to get rid of, one of them being a Street Fighter II: CE cab. SF2 was my favorite arcade game as a kid, so I needed it. I asked how much and they said free.

I got excited and quickly rounded up some coworkers, one with a truck, to go down to their building and "rescue" it. It ended up in my office and needed a few repairs. Over time, I learned how to do minor repairs here and there and even did a monitor tube swap (found an old CRT TV at Goodwill that became the donor).

The thing is huge, so became a nuisance when I moved teams a few times. I got good at putting it on a dolly and transporting it myself from office to office. I left Microsoft years ago, but kept the machine and it's now sitting in my home office.

[acomjean]

I was on one of those calls where you get a question you weren’t expecting..

Jorge: do you think a foosball table will fit in you Honda (element)?

Me: I’ll take the back seats out and be right over.

He was given the table when the office moved and only had room to move one of the tables. And it does fit.. barely.