Weirdest places you've seen video game stuff

[PentiumMMX]

After an experence earlier, I desided to start a topic on this. I don't nesserasrly mean "the wild", but where are some wired places you've seen a game system?

Mine would be an Atari 2600 (Darth Vader Black) and a PSone at a Funeral Home. I was wondering around, and in a room past the kitchen that looks seemingly like a storage closet, is a Microwave along with a TV with an Atari 2600 hooked up, and a bunch of games. There was even a PSone stuffed in a drawer. All the game stuff (Outside of a Paddle Controller for the Atari that had some tape on the wire) was mint. It could be discribed as the Sacred Realm.

However, I asked if it was alright for me to go in there and play, but I was told no, because she "Didn't know anything about what's in there" (Proably if I knew the actual owner of the Funeral Home, I'd be allowed in).

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[8-bitNesMan]

What a coincidence that the system that damn near killed the industry would be in a funeral home! ;) Cool thread...

[Cinder6]

My 12th grade science fiction teacher was also the drama teacher. For some reason, the drama students took a whole bunch of furniture and "junk" and made it all into one big pile. It was so huge we had to have our class around the monstrosity (people were calling it "the monument", though they couldn't say for what).

A friend of mine and I were walking around it to look at all the strange things in it (and find a seat that hadn't been incorporated, which was actually difficult), when we saw an NES. For some reason, my SF teacher had an NES in the classroom. When I asked her about it, she said she'd had it there for about 10 years, ever since her son moved out. She let me keep it, which was actually what started my video game collection craze.

[bangtango]

In recent years, I've seen an Atari 2600 hooked up in both a public school and a bar.

[DefaultGen]

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[ccovell]

My 12th grade science fiction teacher:eek 2:

Wha what? They teach science fiction in school nowadays?

Anyway, the weirdest place I found a game system was in a junkyard for old appliances, in the middle of a field:

http://disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/walkabout/IMG_0667.jpg
http://disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/walkabout/IMG_0677.jpg
"Oh, the humanity!" was exactly what I said...

[Aussie2B]

I saw one at school too. Back when I was in high school I was taking a drawing class, and one day I walked in to see a still life set up for us to draw and there was a toaster NES sitting among other assorted junk.

[SBF]

Anyway, the weirdest place I found a game system was in a junkyard for old appliances, in the middle of a field:

http://disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/walkabout/IMG_0667.jpg
http://disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/walkabout/IMG_0677.jpg
"Oh, the humanity!" was exactly what I said...

What console is that exactly?

[FlufflePuff]

I went to a golf course earlier this summer and they had a NES with SMB/DH hooked up to a rolling cart TV. Just sitting out in the middle of the clubhouse. I asked them about it and they said that noone ever touches it, but they don't have any reason to move it. The guy kind of looked surprised that I was asking, like it wasn't odd to have a NES in a business in 2007.

[Cinder6]

Just thought of another one. At a Jared's Jewelers store nearby (I hate that store so much, in large part because it has my name in it...), there is a kid section. Last I went there (maybe 3 years ago), there was an N64 hooked up in there. I only remember them having Mario Kart 64, but there might have been Star Fox 64, as well.

Thinking about it, it makes perfect sense for them to have it. At the time, though, I was pleasantly surprised. It made the whole trip much more enjoyable.

[djsquarewave]

What console is that exactly?
Looks like a Saturn to me.

[SeverThe7th]

What console is that exactly?
Looks damn like a saturn. Though ive never seen a silver sega saturn so i cant say for sure, but yeah im pretty sure.

Edit: Too late.

[PSXferrari]

Looks damn like a saturn. Though ive never seen a silver sega saturn so i cant say for sure, but yeah im pretty sure.

Edit: Too late.


Yup, definitely a Saturn. That picture was taken in Japan, as you can see by the writing on the sign in the photo. Plus, SBF has his location set as Japan. And now the pieces all fall together-- in Japan they had silver Saturns.

And knowing is half the battle!.. G.I. JOOOOOOOE!

[ccovell]

Uhh... SBF was the one asking the question. :)

It wasn't a silver Saturn; it was a grey one, the original Japanese model.

[Omni]

Well, the weirdest place I saw a video game related item was at CCD. (It's a local thing where little kids go in my town to learn about religion and, later on, get confirmed.) While waiting to get picked up, I walked over to the main hall, (Which happened to be empty) and, what do you know, I see a first-model Playstation on a cart! (With Final Fantasy lid art, no less!) I didn't talk to anyone running the classes about why it was there, but it was something funny to tell people I knew.

Another weird place I saw a game system was at my old elementary school. In an afterschool babysitting program, they had an old-style NES hooked up for kids to play Mario on. Oddly enough, it was played often. (I wouldn't expect that from kids who grew up on Playstation!)

I noticed these things when I was 8 or 9, so by now I think they have gotten rid of them. (Sadly)

P.S.: First post, w00t

[mailman187666]

I see them in tattoo parlors, hair salons, and Dr offices every now and again.

I also see them at the free clinic, at rehab, and the pile of PS2s and Xboxs at my local crack house is astonishing <<<<just kidding.

[Pantechnicon]

Nothing too unusual from me. I saw a PSX in a dentist's waiting room once. In retrospect it makes perfect sense, but it was the first time I'd seen a dedicated gaming machine in such an environment. Mrs. Pan is possibly moving her law practice into new digs. I'm inclined to set something up like that therein :cool:.

There was also this now-defunct local pizza place that had a Genny and a pile of carts sitting at the bar, available to anyone who wanted to play it. It says something pretty nifty to me about an establishment like that when they can provide amusements like that for customers without necessarily expecting to make money off of it.

[mr.soul]

There was a place I used to get my hair cut as a little kid that had a model 1 Genesis. I remember playing the Sonic 2 special stage a lot.

[Oobgarm]

There was once a killer Genesis multi-cart setup at my old Dentist's office. Another dentist I visited as a lad had a Star Wars upright arcade machine.

When one of my buddies got married about 8 years ago, there was an N64 with some games on a cart in the church he was getting married in. It was almost plugged up and played.

[PSXferrari]

Uhh... SBF was the one asking the question. :)

It wasn't a silver Saturn; it was a grey one, the original Japanese model.


lol, sorry covell. you were the one with the location as japan who posted the picture. i just looked back real quick on saw the picture on SBF's as well, so assumed it was him. and grey or silver.... it's all the same color; one is just slightly shinier. but rather than admit that i used the wrong color terminology, i will continue to call it silver now and be forever shunned by Saturn collectors around the world.

[Slate]

The worst I can think of is a goodwill that had a Super NES for "store use"

[Porksta]

My orthodontist has Game Boy Advances at every chair so you can play while you wait, or are getting examined.

[7th lutz]

A nes being hooked in the hotel lobby with faxandu in 1991.

[heybtbm]

I've been in quite a few hotels that have those weird N64 controllers and N64 games you can order on TV. Pay-per-view N64 games...sort of.

[bazariah]

theres a ps2 at my local tattoo artists shop

there was a super nes and megadrive hooked up to a projecter for a bit at my old school

and there used to be an n64 hooked up at the local social club.. they put this up after the arcade cabs were taken out lol

[Steve W]

When I was a lil' boy, probably around 1980, I was going to a private school that my mom was teaching at. The building was leased from a local church, and their congregation kept an office there and a storage room. I was hanging around, waiting for my mom to get done with whatever she was doing, and I poked around the church's storeroom, where I came across a Zircon Channel F. I don't recall any controllers with it, but I remember looking at either a catalog or something with screenshots on it, and not being impressed. I already had an Atari 2600, which blew this lump of crap away graphically.

[dlopez9069]

The worst I can think of is a goodwill that had a Super NES for "store use"

Thats funny because i guess the weirdest place i ever saw anything was while i was doin community service(court ordered) at a goodwill and when i went to take out the trash i saw an nes with 2 controllers light gun advantage and about 20 games sittin in the dumpster. i pulled it out and asked about it and they said i could have it. My first NES and it sparked my collection!

[diskoboy]

My orthodontist had a Pac-Man cocktail. And it was set to free play! It made my 2 years of going there much more tolerable.

This topic reminded me of the days Eckerds Drugs used to have a plethora of Atari VCS games, in a glass case, next to the electric razors - walkmans haven't been invented yet.. I think they also carried Astrocade for a time.

I just thought it was weird a drug store was carrying them. But who's complaining? :)

[Push Upstairs]

Thats funny because i guess the weirdest place i ever saw anything was while i was doin community service(court ordered) at a goodwill..

May I ask what you were doing community service for? If you don't want to thats cool. I just wonder why would a judge pick goodwill of all places.


I don't really have a really bizarre I've seen games except at home improvement & farm equipment type stores. Not so bizarre considering the home improvement place is also carrying some groceries. @_@

[dlopez9069]

May I ask what you were doing community service for? If you don't want to thats cool. I just wonder why would a judge pick goodwill of all places.


setting my school on fire. The judge said it would build a strong work effort. It didnt after i finished they said they didnt want me back!

[Slate]

Come to think of it, I saw some junky famiclones in a grocery store.

[Push Upstairs]

setting my school on fire. The judge said it would build a strong work effort. It didnt after i finished they said they didnt want me back!

Intended, or "Whoops, I really suck at Chemistry"?

[Yoshimitsu]

I work for a wedding company in Japan and after a recent exploration of the building I found an old pair of DDR arcade machines in a storage room next to pulputs and flower arches.I'm told they still work and belongs to one of the priests and had been there for a year or so.... I'm thinking of plugging them in and using it to pass time between ceremonies with the alter girls!

[dlopez9069]

Intended, or "Whoops, I really suck at Chemistry"?

Intended unfortunately the judge likes that one least

[djbeatmongrel]

Weirdest place i've seen video game stuff was your mother's vagina. Theres was a Dreamcast with Seaman in it...

[RJ]

Uhhhmm...yeah.

This isnt about a game system per se, but I went to "CCD"/relig. ed. Wed nights at my church which was also a Catholic school (I attended public).

The office used Atari computers for their bookkeeping, records, etc. prob. b/c they were cheaper than regular PCs then. & this was right around the time my interest in games/Atari began to build. This was 20-25 yrs ago.

I'm sure they "upgraded" to better computers since, damn I shouldve found out what they did w/ all the Ataris!!! :(

[Captain Wrong]

I saw a hacked up Ms. Pac-Man cabaret (converted from god knows what) and a cocktail Galaga at a jewlery store in the kid's area. My fiancee laughed at me because I just could not get over what an ugly conversion that Ms. Pac was.

[Iron Draggon]

Weirdest place i've seen video game stuff was your mother's vagina. Theres was a Dreamcast with Seaman in it...

that's nothin... I saw R.O.B. givin your Daddy a hand job...

[Push Upstairs]

Original version.


I don't really have a really bizarre I've seen games except at home improvement & farm equipment type stores. Not so bizarre considering the home improvement place is also carrying some groceries.


"The Sizz" edition (a.k.a. fun with Babel Fish)

You exclude by the type store of reconstruction and the agricultural implements in me, really really queer personal opinion is there is no game. So, in addition as for considering the place of queer reconstruction certain food miscellaneous goods are being carried.

[djbeatmongrel]

that's nothin... I saw R.O.B. givin your Daddy a hand job...

Dare I mention your grandmothers Power glove incident? I'll never look at Vaseline and grey haired cougers the same way again...

[j_factor]

A McDonald's near me has this weird setup of 4 N64's in the kids' area. They're in little upright kiosk things with stools in front of them. They have Mario Kart, some Winnie the Pooh game, and I don't remember what else. They installed these not that long ago, and well after N64 was off the market; like 2004ish.

Is this common? I haven't seen it in any other McDonald's locations, just the one. I actually went around checking other local McD's when I noticed this, and none of them had it.

A long, long time ago, I remember seeing an X'Eye for sale at a music store that mainly sold guitars.

[Soviet Conscript]

A long, long time ago, I remember seeing an X'Eye for sale at a music store that mainly sold guitars.

thats pretty common acually. i guess x'eyes were purposely sent to music/guitar stores for sale. i don't know why, did the x'eye have the midi input thing? or were they marketed as a multi tasking music machine?

i always see people writeing about checking guitar shops on the off chance you can still find a new x'eye for cheap.

[OatBob]

There is an indoor tennis facility in town here with a snes and n64 hooked up. Of course, the only games to go along with them are generic tennis games and Mario Tennis.