Games room ...

[BobA]

Level 42
Wow that is different.  In the US and Canada back in the 70s you would have called that a Bomb Shelter and stocked it with food and water and had a metal door.

[Havok]

Haha - that was my first thought also - bomb shelter. However, looking at this guy, I think he is insulting me with "l33t speak":

 

[ChadTower]

[HaRuMaN]

Level 42
Wow that is different.  In the US and Canada back in the 70s you would have called that a Bomb Shelter and stocked it with food and water and had a metal door.

At least you'd know your arcade machines would survive a bomb strike, lol...  make sure you have a hefty power generator so you can run all those games! 

[epic69]

Here is my "Garage Arcade" 3 mame machines, 1 omni, 1 full court frenzy. Only one rule in my household "As long as i can get the van in the garage" Well its about 6" from that so i am still ok. I have a mechanized attack i was making a positional mame cabinet out of but i am running out of space. Good to see all the different game room types.

[nostrebor]

Here's a pic from the door of my gameroom. It's 75% completed. I work on it as money allows, which can be read as "not very often".

[ChadTower]

Nice TI99.   

[Malenko]

thats so weird, I suggested to my uncle to buy those plastic tubs to store stuff under his pins and he said it was a dumb idea, now that I see it , I know it was brilliant.

I wish I had pins, and plastic tubs, and stuff to store in the tubs under the pins.

[XyloSesame]

Nice TI99

AHA! Thanks, Chad, the TI box had been bugging me; couldn't put a model to it...

[ChadTower]

I really like his tiles.  Very pixellated.

[nostrebor]

Nice TI99.   

What! No love for the Oddyssey 400? 

The whole room has been a challenge. It's small, and it needs to house a pin collection, vid collection, and console collection. I'm fund-raising now for the built-in cabinets that will go in the corner for the TV and consoles. My built-in will surround a Cyclone pin cabinet stood on end with a drawer set built in to it for my consoles and a TV on top. I also have plans for a "raised" channel around the ceiling with arcade art and indirect lighting. The black and red colors will tie in to those elements, and hopefully tone down the floor a little.

The floor story is an interesting one. My mom works for a wholesale carpet company. The manufacturer of that VCT tile is changing the way the tiles are numbered. Mom's company had a cabinet with opened boxes of these tiles for samples, designated by this number. She calls and says they are going to throw away these opened boxes of tile, do I want some. I ended up going over and picking up all they had of the grey and red tiles. I then drew a floor plan in AutoCAD of my room and divided it up into 12" squares. I counted exactly how many tiles I had in the two colors, and came up with a pattern (yes, there is a pattern) that used those tiles, and then filled in the rest with black. It took two boxes of black tiles (with one piece left over) and all the reds and greys to do the room. $43 in total.

The VCT is great for the games because it is easy to slide stuff around (with the plastic feet, not the metal) and if a tile gets damaged, you can heat it with a heat gun, pry it up, and put a new one in it's place.

[ChadTower]

What! No love for the Oddyssey 400? 

Heh.  Couldn't ID that one, it's blurry.

[bishmasterb]

I recently moved from CA to the midwest, and our new home has a basement so I finally get a gameroom! Here it is, currently under construction. It'll have a few full-size cabs, several bartops, big screen theater and a collection of consoles. The overall dimensions are about 30x20 feet.

[ChadTower]

Dude that brown pic looks so much like a LEGO castle front.

[bishmasterb]

Dude that brown pic looks so much like a LEGO castle front.

Ha, yeah it does! I have some LEGO mosaics that are going on the walls as well.

I wanted the smaller room where the consoles are going, to be separate but still feel connected to the larger theater room, so we opened up the wall with those arched windows.

[Malenko]

Added a 2 Slot Neo Geo in a  4 slot cab ,weut.


6 carts but only 2 at a time. Areo Fighters 2 , Samurai Shodown, Metal Slug X, Shock Troopers Second Squad, Puzzle Bobble, King Of Fighters 2000.


from the left.


from the right.

[FrizzleFried]

My gameroom changed a bit since last time I posted...

[ratzz]

Thats a lovely collection FizzleFried!

Mind you -- any collection with a SW is cool in my book. I want one!

[FrizzleFried]

Thats a lovely collection FizzleFried!

Mind you -- any collection with a SW is cool in my book. I want one!

Thanks...the SW is currently under construction with the PCB mid-shipment to Mark Spaeth for his Empire Strikes Back multigame installation and I am waiting for a WG neckboard from another member.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Here is mine. There is a Crystal Castles cocktail off to the right hand side, unpictured.

[XyloSesame]

Here is mine. There is a Crystal Castles cocktail off to the right hand side, unpictured.

love the inclusion of a polly...

[Jeff AMN]

On the first page I showed my WIP game room project. Well, here it is now:

[rescue161]

Here is my game room.

[Ummon]

I see you have two things necessary in a game room: a cot stored underneath the pool table for those marathon runs; and an assult rifle handy for those who just won't go home.

[rescue161]

I see you have two things necessary in a game room: a cot stored underneath the pool table for those marathon runs; and an assult rifle handy for those who just won't go home.

LOL, actually, the "cot" is part of my wife's exercise equipment.  I usually stuff it under the pool table to get it out of the way.  The M16 is just a movie blank firing replica.

[amadama]

Cool gamerooms everyone!

rescue161 I love those LED panels! Where do you get those? Can they be animated too?
Alex

[rescue161]

The LED panel can be animated, but you have to draw each screen in paintbrush.  It sucked drawing the still images.  I drew a Rolling Stones tongue that rolls across the screen, but nothing more than that.  You can draw just about anything that will fit into the screen and will look good with only 3 colors.  I had to use my imagination a little on some of the things I've put in there.  I got the big one on Ebay.  I have a smaller one that is text only.

[marlboroa]

here is mine

[thatitalian]

Those LED panels are insane!!! I am looking for one as I type!!! Definitely getting one of those!

[CrazyKongFan]

But anyway, if you must know, the pinball cabinet had about 25% of the vinyl sticker still left on it, and had been poorly spray painted black.  It also had deep gouges in it.  So, I removed the remaining 25% of the sticker, sanded it, repaired the gouges, and painted it.  If I could find the Bally-Midway sticker that goes on it, I would get one (assuming it wasn't outrageously priced), but they're not easily found, unfortunately.  The Ballys from this era (6803 mpu) aren't exactly collectible, so nobody makes repro materials for them. 

It could have been worse...I was at Gameland In Lake Geneva WI last weekend, which has a ton of classic games and some pinball. Unfortunately, alot don't work, or if they do, they don't work right. Anyway, the owner must have a heat problem or something, alot of the machines had holes drilled in the back, but his Black Knight pinball, he had them drilled in the side of the head, in all the artwork! 

[whoozwah]

Here is my game room.



The bottom shelf of the console rack is now occupied with a model 2 SEGA Genesis. Once the Quad Laser is finished, the orange table is coming out of there as well as the small rack on the right. I'm going to put the TV on the Quad Laser and use the inside to hold all my controllers.

[Havok]

Here is my game room.



The bottom shelf of the console rack is now occupied with a model 2 SEGA Genesis. Once the Quad Laser is finished, the orange table is coming out of there as well as the small rack on the right. I'm going to put the TV on the Quad Laser and use the inside to hold all my controllers.

You've got enough room for a cocktail in there, what are you waiting for?