This intro story is legendary bro i cant wait to hear and see more, love it. Wow the ceiling supports were on milk crates?! Madness. See the sky through the structure? Oh my im with you its all fun and games until cab weights are modified and the overall load is shifted and the whole thing collapses.. what a description of the setup of the place. Woah, that 3rd floor footage is unreal, especially the warped funnel shaped collapsing floor, swallowing cabs up like quick sand. Such a sad fate for those games, so many trashed and trapped. I saw a Thunder Blade, played that ages ago. M-4 nice man very cool find, ive never seen Video Pinball great pickups. Be well man.

Great work guys. I haven’t gotten through the whole video yet but just hearing Alex say “croissant” several different ways made me laugh and made my day!!! Thanks for that 👍

That was some undertaking from everyone involved Alex. Crazy to think of the effort for cabs,that tbh,90% of people wouldn't even know what they were. Fantastic stuff and great that people are trying to save this stuff.

Thats dedication saving those cabs mate fairplay :). Seeing that ASTRO WARS hand held running took me right back, my childhood right there mate, great vid :)

Love your videos mate... have no idea how I missed your channel as I have been obsessed with the golden era of arcades since I can remember! You guys are legends!

Holy hell those floors :O Amazing footage! Such an incredible effort by all of you.

What a raid, some real treasures, but extreme perils to get them. I wonder how many places are unintentionally mothballed like this in small French villages like “Croissant”?

Loved this video, absolutely brilliant. Some nice finds there Alex.

Been looking forward to getting time to watch this one. That house was an utter mess, sounds like you guys managed as best as you could in the situation. Love your Space Invaders Deluxe cabinet, the artwork in that one is absolutely fantastic and that bass sound is just wonderful. I quite like the older cabinets as well, they are worth having as they are so unique. That Battlezone looked pretty cool, pity about the Lunar Lander. Not familiar with the M4 game, but that Atari Video Pinball looks so cool, can't wait to see that restored and in all it's glory. The Cambridge museum tour was awesome as well, would love to visit there one day. Some awesome games in there in wonderful condition, I would have that Moon Patrol in a heartbeat. I got some more boards recently, so will am definitely going to have some arcade projects on the go this year.

Nice to see those forgotten games will go to some good homes and get restored now. Nice find!

Great overview of the raid mate. Was great to see some footage. It really was a death trap in there! You all did a great job saving what you could. Look forward to seeing the Video Pinball and M4 up and running in a future video.

Nice one Alex. Video came out well. I get shivers again watching it now - some of those floors really were like paper mache! It was a great weekend all told. Can't wait to see that M4 Tank get the treatment - what a great looking cab that is.

So glad this video is still up so I can rewatch it, I almost couldn't find it!

What an absolute amazing adventure mate. Loved this.. lovely machines. Really proud of you for saving those machines

This is such an awesome story. Loved watching every minute of it.

Just thinking 4 blokes to bring battlezone down and somewhere local would have been 4 French blokes to lift it up there 😂 ❤. I love this had to watch it again... I've got a battlezone like that .!

Wow, that was a fascinating vid! Hats off to you guys, looked seriously scary. You must be well chuffed to get those 2 cabs, so rare. I'd love to know more about the history of that place, so interesting.

Damn. Dedication! ❤️ Thanks for a great ride. Arch

Another amazing story!!! Great job Alex :)

Still gutted I didn't make that raid but top work risking lives to save cabs, love the passion. Played martins video pinball at revival, awesome game that's was well worth the trip! Didn't notice all those c64 and speccy overlays at Cambridge some great memories of games there

I couldn't believe how quickly everyone got together and was down to France to collect those cabs! Thanks for the footage and overview! Cambridge Museum looked good too.

Jesus Alex, what a friggin raid. Thanks for the video as usual. See you soon at arcade club for the sky skipper uk reveal. I was on it like a car bonnet!

Great episode, Alex! You guys got some great games out there, on the other hand its always sad to see these cabs rotting away in that condemned house. Finally, they have been rescued :-D Good you all stayed safe!

This is what I call dedication. Love it.

I can imagine very exciting but scary at the same time! I reckon you lot saved them before that whole place came down. Great video 👍

good job it wasn't raining! what a Mission! some lovely old games in that place - real awkward looking rescue but great effort (bet an aluminium 3-piece ladder goes with you on the next one!) - the couple you brought back look awesome - good luck with the restores ...

Bloody hell Alex is was like watching a cave crumbling out of India jones! Mate that some risky bizzle but pleased you grabbed some awesome finds, pleased you're all safe lol!

Awesome vid! I love video Pinball! Great pick up

Fascinating. I used to deliver arcade machines for a living and know how heavy they are. How the floor held up to the weight of those cabinets is beyond me. The Jet Rocket looks like a right heavy old lump!

Great video. Some good footage too. Brave lads

Wow!! What a find. You all look like The Resivordogs walking down that street 😎

dude...I thought you were overselling the condition of the building but when I saw the footage...man that was scary.

Excellent video, well done Alex

Bloody hell mate, that building...! I love the Atari Video Pinball, what a cool game that looks, look forward to seeing some gameplay of it

Great stuff, Alex. What a fucking death trap. The way they'd propped up those floors was insane man. Good that you guys managed to save some cabs though. The Cambridge night looked fun too, I'm heading there in March for a talk by John Romero.

What a great adventure!

alazing job, you put up a nice team quickly! hello from France and that's good news those cabinets aren't collecting dust & rubble anymore! but ... only 30 years and the building is that bad? that must have been tough , these weigh a ton

Not a hard hat in sight. Love it.

People are free to do whatever they want with the things they own, but letting valuable stuff waste away like that should probably be some sort of crime...

Yeah that building along with those stored arcade cabinets in it were not maintained at all,it looks more like a building left from a war zone OMG. But that videogame museum la franse looks awesome, i wish i was there.

Great video. How did you all decide on who got what cab?

You bunch of nutters! I admire your bottle going in there mate, you done well getting out alive, let alone getting some of those machines out of there.

this is amazing, how often do raid like this crop up?

VERY GOOD VIDEO. THIS MACHINE WORTH SAVING. YOU VERY MUCH BE PLEASED. VERY VERY NICE FOR YOU. :)

I just watched this again, brilliant.. but stunned to see my Home town van hire company.... who hired that Badger van? ... Dave from Barnstaple / Play Bideford / South West Amiga/ RRE

25:21 Coucou Florent Gorges !

Cool video ;)

This is nuts 😂😂😂❤

You have been busy...beautiful cabs esp. that Video Pinball...still got it ??

Loved seeing that mate! shame more machines couldn't of been saved!I've defo seen Shaun (daz cojones bro) at loads of events now I know his name is shaun I shall troll him ;)some nice additions for you but 1K's worth........that's the gamble I guess bruv :(

Incredible cannonball run style retrieval effort buddy..is there any way to get a crane in there threw the roof and rescue those machines? for historical sake they need to be retrieved..so sad..

amazing..thx for saving these... what i am interested in is the history of what that building was used for was it an arcade or a operator outlet or both???

Great vid, dedicated collectors ! If those milk crates were full fat you might be ok, if they are semi skimmed could be dangerous !

Absolutely amazing! :) How many spiders did you bring back? :p

I just re-watched this to check I hadn't dreamt it 😁 It's insane, the trip should be made into a documentary or film! I assume this place was somewhere people would go to play games, do you know what it was or is there any historical info on it mate?

ce nest pas dans le sud de la France, puisque le village se trouve dans le département de Lallier !

19:18 might be above you ..but it could have been ...Luna landed on you..

yes florent gorges ;) friend

awesome trip. looked dodgy as hell though.

The guy who films always got stupid looks.....afterwards everybody is fucking happy it was filmed. Great story.

Great vid as always Alex Which two d***s disliked this vid... hang your heads in shame!

£100 tolls!

WHO THAT IS DEADICATION. VERY GOOD NINTENDO.

pinballs kick arcades arses