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Would you be interested in a forum on this site dedicated to game rooms?

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wmba

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Game Room Forum?
« on: March 19, 2008, 11:51:17 am »
Hello all.

Anyone interested in having a Game Room forum on this site?  This would be a place specifically for the discussion of game rooms. I am talking about game rooms that people build at home, in the basement, or wherever. It would be a place to share design ideas, issues, stories about building/desiging your room, photos, or anything related to creating a game room in your house.

Just curious.
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Re: Game Room Forum?
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2008, 11:52:04 am »

That's a decent idea.
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Re: Game Room Forum?
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2008, 11:54:32 am »
I thought it might be a good idea. People are often posting pictures of the games rooms in their homes, and sometimes asking questions about where to buy things for these rooms, how to set things up, etc.  So I thought a dedicated section might be a good resource.
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Re: Game Room Forum?
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2008, 01:25:36 pm »
I don't think a dedicated forum is what you are wanting. Design ideas are discussed in arcade Misc.

What I think you may be after is something like the project database - a gameroom database.
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Re: Game Room Forum?
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2008, 01:34:56 pm »
or you could try gameroommagazine.com  ;D
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Re: Game Room Forum?
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2008, 01:53:55 pm »
Quote from: wmba on March 19, 2008, 11:51:17 am
Anyone interested in having a Game Room forum on this site?

Not really..... The forum is already diverse enough as it is. There's no real need for discussion on somebody's game room unless it's to say "That's Nice"..... So not a lot of point in dedicating a whole forum to it.

If you want to ask a question about where to buy something then the general forum does perfectly well for that.

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So I thought a dedicated section might be a good resource.
Or add it into the WIKI as game room resources and design. That's what the WIKI is there for. A forum is not really there to be a resource it's for more instant help when the WIKI doesn't have the answers.

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Re: Game Room Forum?
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2008, 07:34:55 pm »
Yeah - I think the Wiki might be best. It would be nice to have one place to go and see different designs. However, if you really want to do it right, you need to see Peter Hirschberg's place:

http://lunacityarcade.com/


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Re: Game Room Forum?
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2008, 08:55:48 pm »
Yeah... Peter's arcade is insane. I can't even imagine having something like that at my house.   Lucky guy....

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Re: Game Room Forum?
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2008, 08:59:06 am »
you may want to head over to retroblast and post your gameroom pics in their forum.
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