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Changing my arcade room lighting, better or worse?
« on: April 01, 2008, 10:18:09 am »
A couple of months back I changed up my game room lighting. I made the move from a green light scheme to a darker one. The new lights are blue and UV. Take a look at the pics below and let me know if you think they look better, worse, or whatever. I also rearranged, but I didn't include enough pics to make that very obvious. The new game arrangement is far better than the old, that one isn't up for debate.
 
First, I'll show off how it looked with the green lighting:





Now here's how it looks with the blue and UV lighting:





The blue lighting seems to aid the UV lighting in doing it's job quite a bit. The oranges, greens, and yellows on my cabs and pins really pop, it's pretty cool. The green was unique, but the blue feels more "arcade" to me.

Any thoughts? Note, I have two switches that control the blue and UV light separately, so I could go without the blue or UV if I wanted.
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Re: Changing my arcade room lighting, better or worse?
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2008, 10:23:06 am »

I sort of like the green better.  The excessive UV will eff with your vision after a while.  Green is a little outside the box and looks good in the pic.

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Re: Changing my arcade room lighting, better or worse?
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2008, 10:32:20 am »
You'll also hurt your artwork with all of that dedicated UV. Personally, I would run regular lighting. I would also run blacklight flourescents on each wall. I would only use the blacklight for parties.

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Re: Changing my arcade room lighting, better or worse?
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2008, 10:48:00 am »
Well, like I said, the UV (which are actually blacklight fluorescents) is on its own switch, and I generally only flip it on when I have visitors. I'm more concerned over what looks better, the blue, or the green. I also have red, but that was just downright creepy.
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Re: Changing my arcade room lighting, better or worse?
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2008, 07:08:26 pm »
Keep the blue!

Looks great !

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Re: Changing my arcade room lighting, better or worse?
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2008, 08:08:00 pm »
I'd pick the green lighting, I like the eerie feel I get looking at DK surrounded by a green glow.
kinda swamp-like, which is really unique!

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Re: Changing my arcade room lighting, better or worse?
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2008, 08:30:14 pm »
Pick one of these: http://www.uncrate.com/men/home/lighting/multicolor-led-lightbulb/ then you can have it all!

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Re: Changing my arcade room lighting, better or worse?
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2008, 08:52:42 pm »
Holy crap, Frizz, that's awesome!
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Re: Changing my arcade room lighting, better or worse?
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2008, 09:28:37 am »

That rocks.  I may have to grab one or two when the gameroom is ready.

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