GAME ROOM PICS

[Q*Bert_OP]

maybe a stupid question, but what effect will a fogger have on carpet?

None, unless there is a liquid dripping from the output nozzle(un-vaporized fog fluid which low quality machines may spit out), which may feel slightly sticky, but shouldn't hurt anything.

[Zakk]

If I leave mine on for a long period, without fogging, it will leak straight fluid, it must build up somewhere.  If you set it to 'auto' it never happens. 

[eds1275]

If you are more interested in seeing lasers than smokng the place out, a hazer is a better bet. That's what they use at rock shows that give the bands that "surreal" look, as well as let you see the light shoot through the air. It's basically a mist that hangs in the air for much longer than fog does and catches the light.

[mhermann]

Wow! some amazing suff out there. I wish some of you guys lived in my neighborhood. I will get some pics up once I get my seconf machine done.

[Mac Green]

Here's the current state of my gameroom:

   Pigout? im really jealous

[TheShanMan]

Yep! Only time I've had a game shipped. But that reminds me... updated video with new games (Off Road, Prop Cycle, Skeeball, plus I switched Road Blasters to Indy Jones and Super Mario Bros to Excitebike) and altered layout...

[Gray_Area]

(well almost, I just sold the Gaplus the other day):
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-tear- I know it's just a MsPac cab, but with that artwork, it's way cool looking.

[jrivelli]

Here is the start of my gameroom. Got a few pins. Got the wife some funds from selling a few couches and gave her free reign to "decorate" as she pleases, which got her fully on board with this plan!

[HaRuMaN]

Bumping this up with new gameroom pics:









 

[Franco B]

Looking good buddy! Your collection has somewhat grown! 

I don't have a game room as such but this is my corner of the living room   



We've just in the process of buying the house (we were renting) so I'm looking forward to getting some artwork up I've been collecting 

[HaRuMaN]

Yeah, my collection is growing...  much to the wife's despair... lol. 

Is that an Initial D I see?  Nice!  I wish I could get my hands on at least one more candy cab.  I'd love to have a dedicated vertical machine.   

[Franco B]

Yeah it's an Initial D, It's been consolised to play 360 though so I mainly use it for that.

Having a dedicated vert cab (or two  ) is handy. There was always a game I wanted to play in the other orientation and they can be a bit of a pain to rotate so I bought a second.

Then I found that there was always something I wanted to play in another resolution (15/31k) as well as the other orientation so I bought another tri-sync to cover all bases. I kept the NAC as the PFX in my Naomi doesn't like Taito F3 games.

[Player 3]

What is it with some of you guys and Japan-style cabs? They look a little hard to assemble, being what looks like plastic and all.

[drventure]

Yeah, they aren't my favorite style of cab either, but then, I grew up with arcades full of the traditional, refrigerator box style black cabs from the early 80's so that's what says "arcade" to me. The viewlix (I think that's what that style is called), not as much.

Still, there's some fantastic collections of cabs here!

[opt2not]

What is it with some of you guys and Japan-style cabs? They look a little hard to assemble, being what looks like plastic and all.

Actually, they are very easy to assemble/disassemble. In fact, they're more cleverly built than woodie cabinets.
Here's a picture of my New Astro City, disassembled for cleaning:

See how it splits down the middle? I just takes some unscrewing and they split apart easily.
Try disassembling a woodie, it's near impossible.

These sit down cabinets are an absolute pleasure to play on, I'm talking about the most comfortable prolonged gaming experience. Personally, as I get older, my back and legs tend to ache after hours of play on my woodie stand-ups.  You could say, why not just by stools?  Well, then I'd have extra chairs that would only be used for these cabinets, when I could just use a regular chair.  These candy's give you the ability to prolong your gaming without the wear and tear on your body from standing around for hours. They're also really easy to switch boards in and out, again, attributed to the clever manufacturing and ease-of-access to each panel. Plus they look slick, like a spaceship!

For me, I grew up with woodie cabinets primarily, candy cabinets didn't start showing up around here till the 90's. But being on the west-coast we were privy to a lot of Asian imports, so they popped up everywhere. The first time I played on one, I knew right away that I loved them.
I'm actually planning on getting a second candy cabinet, they're just so awesome to play on. Especially when you want to seriously concentrate on a game.

[MonMotha]

Real candies are mostly metal, not plastic.  The only plastic is basically just various trim pieces around the monitor and control panel and usually the marquee holder.

Most candies are pretty easy to work in.  Some split down the middle as shown above, while others just have access panels and doors...everywhere.  Most have monitors that are readily rotated and remounted without any real work aside from manhandling the monitor (kinda unavoidable unless you do some sort of auto-rotate system which is really only ever seen on home-use stuff, though I'm sure somebody will prove me wrong on that one).

They're also surprisingly lightweight.  Metal is heavy, but you don't need very much (it's something like 1/16" sheet steel) to make the cabinet quite strong owing to the structure formed by the enclosing the cabinet.  Getting the same level of structure with wood takes quite a bit more material (3/4" ply or particle board was pretty standard on American stand-up cabs from around the same era i.e. late 80s and on, though MDF seems to have become popular recently).

I have a couple Neo 29s and I love 'em.  Many people prefer the newer styles, but I like the somewhat more boxy (yet beveled off) look and the glass over the monitor face to save it from scratches when it was on public duty.  The front glass is usually just a bit tinted to help with the black levels, too, which is nice (I'm a video quality stickler).

Mind you, I like my good ol' Midway MK2 cab plenty, too.  The standups seem better for a lot of classic American games: sports games, action fighters, etc. as they seem to heighten the experience of action and emphasize the social aspect by encouraging frequent rotation of players and bumping into each other.  Candies are great for traditionally Japanese games requiring precision and control or with slower, more methodical like many shooters, tech fighters, some puzzle games, etc. since your body is more relaxed.  Kinda reflects the corresponding culture to some degree, but then maybe I'm overanalyzing things...

[Gray_Area]

Damn, H, you filled the room. Where's the pool table?

Real candies are mostly metal, not plastic.  The only plastic is basically just various trim pieces around the monitor and control panel and usually the marquee holder.

I disagree. It seems, as would be expected, that through the 80s candies were metal. Into, and definitely by the mid-90s, they were almost all ABS/fiberglass/etc.  Astro Citys are black on the inside and the material is more resilient to impact. Others, like an Impress are solid white plastic, very hard, cracks if whacked.

I'm with opt2not. I love candys. I love 80s cabs, too, but I enjoy a good sit-down experience, which is why I MAME'd mine. Pics coming soon....er, ish.

[amendonz]

+1 for candy cabs, sitting down is great, big screens, easy to move around
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[MonMotha]

Real candies are mostly metal, not plastic.  The only plastic is basically just various trim pieces around the monitor and control panel and usually the marquee holder.

I disagree. It seems, as would be expected, that through the 80s candies were metal. Into, and definitely by the mid-90s, they were almost all ABS/fiberglass/etc.  Astro Citys are black on the inside and the material is more resilient to impact. Others, like an Impress are solid white plastic, very hard, cracks if whacked.

Interesting.  I've really only worked with them through about the mid-late 90s.  Most of the ones I've worked in have been SNK Neo/Super Neo.  I wonder if they were just hold-outs on the whole "plastic everywhere" thing.  Definitely plenty of metal on them.  The whole "box" that makes up the main part of the cabinet is metal.  Only plastic is for the control panel frame (the panel itself is metal), monitor trim, and the marquee holder.

[HaRuMaN]

Damn, H, you filled the room. Where's the pool table?

Directly behind me as I was taking the picture.   

[amendonz]

Plastic Fantastics 

[pinballwizard79]

Put more cool ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- in this thread please, not sure why but I like looking at game rooms.

More pics! 

Thanks.

[Nephasth]

Crappy "panoramic" pics, but it's the only way to capture the how the game room is laid out with a couple of pics.

[Zakk]

I did a little vid, shows off the bar.  The games had to move into the next room because I needed the space for another bar rail and dance floor.  Never underestimate the space needed.

The wife doesn't object any more because she can have her friends over for a drunk fest too, so it worked out for everyone.

[BadMouth]

Awesome vid.  Makes me want to get my place back in game shape.  It has fizzled out since everyone has had kids/gotten pissed at each other/started dating people I don't want here.   

[leapinlew]

Awesome vid Zakk. Love the stools at the bar.

[DLinkOZ]

I've only just recently begun converting my game room from a little kid play area and into an older kid/adult game room.  I've been keeping a project in-the-works at all times over the past few months, so I can quickly ramp it up.  Not pictured is the Grayhound crane I'm restoring downstairs, once finished it'll be moved up to the room.

[HaRuMaN]

Skee ball, jealous!

[DLinkOZ]

Those were a matter of perfect timing.  They're roughly 3/4 size, about 9 feet long.  We bought one on CL for $100, then my wife insisted that we get a second (gotta love her!).  One week later we found another on CL for $100, done deal.  Haven't seen one since, so like I said it was perfect timing.

[HaRuMaN]

Those were a matter of perfect timing.  They're roughly 3/4 size, about 9 feet long.  We bought one on CL for $100, then my wife insisted that we get a second (gotta love her!).  One week later we found another on CL for $100, done deal.  Haven't seen one since, so like I said it was perfect timing.

Even more jealous of the price!  There are some on CL here, but the guy wants $1000 a piece.   

[phunamy]

I kind of stumbled upon this thread, I like the rooms, too bad I don't have the funds to make one of my own.

[Rando]

Playing with the new Panorama feature of my iphone.  Bit distorted but takes a nice picture. 

In picture from right to left: MAME arcade, Spy Hunter pinball, Wine fridge, Dart board, Air Hockey, and Poker table currently hosting electronic vibrating football.  Future hopes are to add a second MAME machine (one Verticle one Horizontal) and at least one more Pinball.  Oh, and a mirror ball.  Gotta have a disco mirror ball.

[Gray_Area]

Poker table currently hosting electronic vibrating football. 

I remember that football game when I was a kid. Was kinda funny for a little while, but the players would fall over sometimes.

[paigeoliver]

Latest gameroom pics.

I moved my work shop area behind my bar to open up the gameroom a bit more. There are a few things not pictured (there is a row of games in front of the bar and a Touchmaster that gets set up on the bar itself.

Of course my Pole Position being a Pole Position has gone from working to booting to garbage just from being moved across the room (fixed it later that afternoon).
I actually have a few more machines than I really want, as the row in front of the bar is cramped.

[DLinkOZ]

A quick update to my previous pic - Early January I got my second crane up and running and moved to the game room along with a sticker/candy machine combo from a local auction.  Just in time for a big bday party for my older son with all the nieces and nephews who love to come play at our house.  Today I got my new Sega Turbo up there.

Funny story about the Turbo, we cracked it in half to make moving easier last night.  Back half went without issue.  Front half was minus the monitor, as I had it out for a recap today. We were midway up the stairs, when the 30+ year old 1x1 wood strip that holds the screw with in turn secures the board with the power supplies, transformer and amps gave out.  The entire unit fell out, reaching the end of slack on cable after cable, ripping them either in half or tearing out the molex pins or solder joints.  Luckily a little quality time with the soldering iron, plus way too many swear words and it's back up and running.  And the cap kit did wonders for the wavy image.

Another auction this weekend, so I hope to add more.  What you can't make out in the picture is the display case we picked up from a local retailer who no longer needed it.  You can only see it's black side.  It holds the spillover of my wife's Hello Kitty collection.  In the right half of the image you can see the shelves I put in the nooks on either side of the entrance to her office, which quickly filled up.  Now this 6 foot display case is getting a bit full, as well.

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[Goatslayer]

Video game room...



Arcade...

[BC_Jeffro]

my small game room
and a little in my living room and my kitchen

[glstar]

Even if it will be forever in "work in progress"....this is the new style of my room:









Not pictured i have:
-Sega Rally twin
-Super Sprint
-Tales From The Crypt Pinball
-New Net City