For Aftermath, Chris Person wrote about his adventures buying a candy cab and restoring it to its former glory. For those who don’t know, a candy cab is a colloqual term for a Japanese sit-down style arcade cabinet and Chris started his journey with a tweet back in 2023:
When we were starting Aftermath, I posted the following: “If this website does really well I’m gonna buy a candy cab or something and blog about it.” Well, it is time to make good on that promise. When I saw a listing for a Taiwanese arcade machine priced to move and in project status, I decided to go all in. I am now the owner of a mangy, abused candy cab. What have I done?
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Featured image: Japanese Candy Cabs by gingerbeardman, shared via CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 licence
