Antarctica’s Golden Tee Cabinet: Saved!

They say when you work hard, you can play hard, so I can only imagine the sadness when Antarctica’s lone Golden Tee arcade cabinet broke down. The game is a popular way to kill the time among the residents of McMurdo Station, a scientific base that holds roughly 500 people in the winter and 1,300 in the summer. Not long ago, the station’s 5 year-old Golden Tee machine suffered a hard drive failure, and a quick service call was, of course, out of the question.

Flying in a replacement drive would take five or six months, so Incredible Technologies, which manufactures and services Golden Tee cabinets, got creative. They re-made a hard drive from Golden Tee 2005 and uploaded all the data to an FTP service, which McMurdo’s engineers could access. The folks in Antarctica simply had to load the data onto a blank hard drive and throw it into the cabinet. Problem solved.

“The game truly is important to many of us and to get it fixed so quickly really is a testament to IT’s ingenuity,” said Mike Santos, McMurdo Station’s recreation supervisor.

Wait, Antarctica has a boss of fun? [via Arcade Heroes]