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Unless you were a child visiting certain Japanese arcades cheap fifa 16 coins in the early '90s, you've probably never seen this game in its original, rocking car-shaped cabinet, complete with steering wheel and turn signals. That bulky cabinet is extremely hard to find in working condition today (even in Japan), even harder to get to someone who could dump the internal ROM data for preservation.

Enter Will Medved, an avid Sonic collector who Kotaku reports managed to track down a working version of the ride and buy it for $350. A few thousand dollars in shipping and additional costs later, Medved had the 770 pound game in his garage and ready for archiving (and conversion to accept American quarters). While Medved originally set up an IndieGogo project to fund that costly acquisition, it seems the concerned arcade preservationist The Dumping Union helped with some of the costs in the end.

With Sonic Patrol Car out of the way, there's still at least one more white whale out there for the Sonic community: the similar, space-themed kiddy ride Segasonic Cosmo Fighter. Beyond that, there are also countless other titles listed http://www.hellofifa.com/ on sites like UnMAMEd and System 16. If you want to contribute to efforts to find and preserve these rarest of classic arcade games, The Dumping Union will gladly take your donations.