>>11906360
Different anon here.

The story of the last ridge racer full scale in Europe is insane.

Discovering the last full scale in the back of a theme park and is neglected.

Documenting all the parts.

Trying to buy the machine.

Theme park refusing. Then more negotiating. Then agreeing on the condition the machine gets donated to a local video game museum. So they get the full scale machine for free.

Then the full scale gets stolen by driver of uhaul truck. Big twist is that the old man negotiating was never from the arcade community to begin with and was lying.

Theme park doesn't want to get involved in this legal mess. To them, it's just an old arcade machine they wanted to get rid off.

Local Video game museum reveals they had never heard of any deal about donating a ridge racer full scale cabinet.

Old man lied to everyone involved!

Old man rips apart full scale and throws the most of it in his backward and taunts the arcade community with pictures (pic related). Nothing legally can be done.

Machine sits out in rain and gets water damaged and rusts. Old man even invites people into his house to tour and see the broken remains of full scale scattered around his house and backyard but refuses to sell it. Just taunts visitors with full scale corpse.

Eventually arcade community is outraged.

Crazy attention is focused on this old man. Starts to make local news.

Old man freaks out at all the negative attention and realizes it's gotten out of hand and far beyond his expectations.

Old man sells house, but as a final Fuck you to gaming community...the old calls a scrapping company days before the house is sold and orders them take away all the full scale parts to make sure the gaming community can't fix it or reassemble it.

New owner of home finds that some pieces of the machine still remain but 80% of the machine was destroyed. Only the red car and a few bits remain. Sad.

To this day no one knows wtf was going on with that old man