fatherpain
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- Tom
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With all clutter sorted and transferred to our storage room, pulled my forgotten and neglected “other” hobby outside for a thorough clean. Lots of dust and spiderwebs, but they shined up nicely with some long overdue TLC. ?
Each arcade cab has casters installed, so are easy to push and roll around. Smarter, not harder is one of my favorite mottos baby! ?
Then again... the OCD I often joke about probably is real and should be treated one of these days, heh.
Started repopulating the “garcade”. Though my sons were nowhere to be found when there was a boatload of work to do... it didn’t take long for them to mosey on in and “test” the games to see if they still fired up ?.
These all play fine...but found (17 of 38) do not, so will need attention, $$$ and help from some old friends to get running again. They were all operational at one time....but these old electronics fail under use and sometimes just by sitting there.
If there’s anything worse than having one expensive hobby (FK8)... then it’s having two.
Started collecting and restoring these from 2005 through about 2013... and the OCD was seriously in full effect.
Thought my kids would love them, right off the bat, like I did when I was young in the 80’s and 90’s... but they preferred games their friends play, like Minecraft, Fortnite, etc ?
But they are taking interest, now that the games are set up and garage is clean again for the first time in about 7-8 years...especially my younger 13 year old.... this makes me happy. ?
However, neither have taken to working on cars with dad, lol ?
With any luck, will be getting back in the game, so to speak, heh.
What does this mean for the FK8 build? Though, future time and resources will be split between both hobbies, my tools and parts are now organized. This should make it easier to stay motivated and install some of these mods that have been piling up. ?
It also means any fellow Type R peeps cruising out to visit, can play some games in addition to talking cars.
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