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Rolling Thunder
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Let's dig around our dump and look for something a little different. Past the discarded NES consoles, past the buried 2600s, to the section marked Coin-Op. It is here that we find the discarded cabinets of yesteryear. Once these machines would have brought joy to those who played them with a simple coin put into the coin slot. Now they sit dormant. Waiting for the day someone plugs their power leads back in and watches as they glow back into life.
There are quite a few here, their cabinets collecting dust. We wipe off the banner of one - Pac-Man, we move on, Out Run sits there trying to entice us to sit in the driver’s seat one more time, but we decline. Even Rampage can't tempt us, maybe another day, but not today. We're looking for something else, something specific, and then we see it. It sits alone in the corner, isolated from the other cabinets and left to its own devices. We look up, words emblazoned in blue punch out from a background of red and yellows. We pick up the discarded plug that lay next to the cabinet and jam it into a socket. At first, nothing happens but then the arcade cabinet comes to life. Sounds unheard in years ring out through the abandoned hall of the Dump’s arcade. We have resurrected Rolling Thunder…
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