This legal, fully licensed and expandable Multi-Game Video Game arcade machine is made specifically for the home and office. NOW including GoldenTee (with trackball)!!! Arcade Legends 3 is a full sized video game cabinet built with authentic hardware and materials used on commercial arcade cabinets. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA) is a digital repository for advertisement flyers that are used by the coin-operated amusement industry to promote the sales of its games. How Chopper Read fooled us all: Authour and journalist ADAM SHAND reveals how Uncle Chop Chop played us right until the very end. In his final interview, Chopper Read, Australia's most notorious underworld identity, named four people he had coldly murdered throughout his life. But 'Uncle Chop Chop' may have played us all for a fool, as author ADAM SHAND explains in this extract from his new book, The Real Chopper. With just weeks to live, Mark Read had one last story to tell the media. One assumed that with no fear of prosecution, he would tell the truth for the first and last time. Read agreed to a paid interview from the Nine Network's 6. Minutes program, the last one he would give. The producers quite rightly wanted to know what they would be getting from Read for their money. Deathbed confessions: A yellow- faced Chopper Read sat down with 6. Minutes for his final interview. Charades: Riddled with tattoos and scars, Chopper is pictured in a sequence from his final interview. Comedy trio: This picture from 2. Chopper Read (right), Mark 'Jacko' Jackson (left) and Roger Rogerson (centre). The trio formed the theatre comedy troupe, 'Wild Colonial Psycho' and toured pubs and clubs around the nation. What revelations could the great earless one serve up after all the books, a movie and hundreds of media interviews? What was left to say that could shock and appal a prime time audience? The general ramblings of a self- styled, leering psychopath would not be enough. Read needed to serve up something new for his final pay check. He had to convince everyone he was much worse than we thought, that there was a darker side to him, despite the fact he never stopped telling us how bad he was. Murder was the answer. Not one, but four cold- blooded killings. The ending seemed so perfect. The people's executioner tells everybody where the bodies lie in this last picture show, as he called it. Read was just three weeks from death but he remained in control of the script. Storyteller: Chopper, pictured launching one of his many books in 2. Hooky The Cripple set in the 1. The performance artist had turned his life into a tragic comedy that he would script right to the final curtain. He earnestly declared that he would confess to four murders, no more, no less. He went through them without emotion, almost casually. After years of talking up his violent escapades, Read began to deny most of them one by one. After years of talking up his violent ecapades, Read began to deny most of them one by one. He had never chopped anyone's toes off with a set of boltcutters, nor had he applied a blowtorch to anyone's feet. That had all been borrowed from the legend of Linus Patrick 'Jimmy the Pom' Driscoll. It was all made up and he was now trapped in his lies, trapped in his creation, Chopper Read. Mark Dixon and Jacko dismissed the confessions as a grab for a final payday. He had been nowhere near Casino when Sid Collins had disappeared, they said. Others accepted this was just Chopper being Chopper, providing a little colour to an otherwise boring Sunday night. Police made the usual noises about following up the claims but there was no great urgency and even less evidence to chase. Only the families of the dead would have cared. However, Read always knew that a great lie always had a grain of truth to it. After 6. 0 Minutes went to air, I followed up with the family of Greg Cowie, the boy that paedophile Reg Isaacs had raped and murdered in 1. When Isaacs turned up dead in his cell, a senior policeman told the family that while the coroner had ruled suicide, there was more to the story. Someone had 'assisted' Isaacs to take his own life, he told them. They wanted to thank Mark Read for giving Greg and his familly justice. Even if Read hadn't killed Isaacs, perhaps he knew how it happened, I wondered. Either way, the death of Isaacs had spared the Cowie family another tragedy. Greg's father had sworn he would kill Isaacs himself. This is an edited extract of The Real Chopper: The Man Behind the Legend, Inside and Out, available now for $3.
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