GAME ROOM PICS

[DillonFoulds]

Let me know what everyone thinks.

[Q*Bert_OP]

Great posts everyone, glad to see im not the only one who's obsesive on the gamefront,  here are some of my gameroom(s) pics, there are pictures throughout all 3 pages.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/170532-ccatalyst-gameroom-collection/page__fromsearch__1

Let me know what everyone thinks.

Many Thanks
Rick

Are you sure you're not an operator?

Nice collection! 

[Zakk]

Great posts everyone, glad to see im not the only one who's obsesive on the gamefront,  here are some of my gameroom(s) pics, there are pictures throughout all 3 pages.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/170532-ccatalyst-gameroom-collection/page__fromsearch__1

Let me know what everyone thinks.

Many Thanks
Rick

You have, or had too much money.   

However, you win.   

[Gray_Area]

Great posts everyone, glad to see im not the only one who's obsesive on the gamefront,  here are some of my gameroom(s) pics, there are pictures throughout all 3 pages.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/170532-ccatalyst-gameroom-collection/page__fromsearch__1

Let me know what everyone thinks.

Many Thanks
Rick

I haven't seen Mad Planets, let alone Tunnel Hunt, in the flesh. The only Star Rider (two actually??) I've seen since the 80s. Add to that a Star Trek cockpit, and Discs of Tron Environmental. Wow.

[Rando]

Here is my "blueprint" I made for our basement/gaming area.  Basement was finished, but all in white with a cheap/thin rug directly on the concrete floor.  Baseboard has been pulled, I'm almost finished painting, about to order dricore subfloor panels, and looking at different floor options (currently reveiwing laminate and vinyl "wood" planks)

Once complete, I plan to have half the basement setup for kids (Wii, game table, maybe some crafts, puppet theater, etc.) and the other half for adults (sports tv, arcade cab, bar, poker table, etc).  Here is my plan so far, hope to have actual photos over the next few weeks, arcade cab will be worked on at same time and hopefully one of the first things installed.

Attaching photo, hopefully this is visible.  Basically just a excel document made to look like basement floorplan.  Each cell is 1 square foot.

[ids]

just a excel document made to look like basement floorplan.

Excel?  There is something about that ....amusing?  amazing?  Very good work though, and looks like a generous amount of space - nice

[JayB]

The UK sucks for basements, we just don't have them like you guys at all. Damn those builders 

[pmowry]

just a excel document made to look like basement floorplan.

Excel?  There is something about that ....amusing?  amazing?  Very good work though, and looks like a generous amount of space - nice

I think the excel spreadsheet is a great case of using what you have. And going forward he use it to trial fit everything and link the cells to another sheet with inventory information for home owners insurancein the same doc.  Sounds better than cad or visio to me. =)

[ids]

The UK sucks for basements, we just don't have them like you guys at all. Damn those builders 

sorry to hear that.  We are really lucky with our current house - 5 level back-split, which effectively gives us two basements.  I've claimed a bit for game-room, but it's still contentious.

I think the excel spreadsheet is a great case of using what you have. And going forward he use it to trial fit everything and link the cells to another sheet with inventory information for home owners insurancein the same doc.  Sounds better than cad or visio to me. =)

Cannot agree more.  It is amusing in a way - never thought of doing a floor-plan in excel.  It's totally creative, inventive, using what you have at hand, and much better than learning a new tool for such a small job.  And yes, the possibilities (linking, etc) are quite interesting.  I'll usually jump into visio or sketchup, but this will make me think next time i want to draw something.  Must be a big house to have such a massive basement!

[neil324]

The UK sucks for basements, we just don't have them like you guys at all. Damn those builders 

Not only basements, but room sizes  , lets face it we live in shoe boxes over here.

[Rando]

I think the excel spreadsheet is a great case of using what you have. And going forward he use it to trial fit everything and link the cells to another sheet with inventory information for home owners insurancein the same doc.  Sounds better than cad or visio to me. =)

Cannot agree more.  It is amusing in a way - never thought of doing a floor-plan in excel.  It's totally creative, inventive, using what you have at hand, and much better than learning a new tool for such a small job.  And yes, the possibilities (linking, etc) are quite interesting.  I'll usually jump into visio or sketchup, but this will make me think next time i want to draw something.  Must be a big house to have such a massive basement!

Lol,
Excel was used cause I do much of my planning at work and that's the best I had available.  Google sketch looks cool but I can't install anything to office PC.  Did measurements on graph paper at home and then sketched it up in Excel to "pretty it up" for posting!   Other tabs in same file show Cab breakdown, estimated costs, links to supplies, etc. 

The basement is good sized, basement seems extra large I think because it is under the entire house, and very little unfinished area down there.  Spent Sunday walking 375 dricore panels into the basement and stacking them up.  Once they're acclimated to temp/humidiy, I tear up carpet, perform any needed cement repair, and then start laying subfloor!  Crossing fingers for no mold/water damage!!!
 

[BobA]

Youtube cllip from the show Incredible Basements showing a rather packed basement arcade.  Not mine obviously but one can dream.

[Gray_Area]

Youtube cllip from the show Incredible Basements showing a rather packed basement arcade.  Not mine obviously but one can dream.

Looks like that episode is almost ten years old. Looksa like this is his current lot of games: http://www.smalltalksystems.com/clayberg/arcade/arcade.htm

[flashiv]

I think the excel spreadsheet is a great case of using what you have. And going forward he use it to trial fit everything and link the cells to another sheet with inventory information for home owners insurancein the same doc.  Sounds better than cad or visio to me. =)

Cannot agree more.  It is amusing in a way - never thought of doing a floor-plan in excel.  It's totally creative, inventive, using what you have at hand, and much better than learning a new tool for such a small job.  And yes, the possibilities (linking, etc) are quite interesting.  I'll usually jump into visio or sketchup, but this will make me think next time i want to draw something.  Must be a big house to have such a massive basement!

Lol,
Excel was used cause I do much of my planning at work and that's the best I had available.  Google sketch looks cool but I can't install anything to office PC.  Did measurements on graph paper at home and then sketched it up in Excel to "pretty it up" for posting!   Other tabs in same file show Cab breakdown, estimated costs, links to supplies, etc. 

The basement is good sized, basement seems extra large I think because it is under the entire house, and very little unfinished area down there.  Spent Sunday walking 375 dricore panels into the basement and stacking them up.  Once they're acclimated to temp/humidiy, I tear up carpet, perform any needed cement repair, and then start laying subfloor!  Crossing fingers for no mold/water damage!!!
 

Only one problem...... kids have too much space!     You need to take some of that back for your arcade! 

[MAME TIME]

here's my basement, im a console/arcade guy.

[MameMaster!]

I just added a 3rd pin-- and did some moving around of games.

This is the best part of the hobby for me....enjoy the photos!  

Not pictured is my Fortune teller with candy machines (the kind you see in diners); my Arkanoid Bartop and my cocktail. 

[leapinlew]

OMG! Is that a Theater of Magic? I hear those sell for up to $2,000! What did you pay for that?

[HaRuMaN]

OMG! Is that a Theater of Magic? I hear those sell for up to $2,000! What did you pay for that?

He paid a lot more than 2K, lol.

[MameMaster!]

OMG! Is that a Theater of Magic? I hear those sell for up to $2,000! What did you pay for that?

He paid a lot more than 2K, lol.

Yep. 

[Q*Bert_OP]

OMG! Is that a Theater of Magic? I hear those sell for up to $2,000! What did you pay for that?

What planet do you live on? I'll take a few $2k ToMs!

Even in the south, they are $3k+.

[Zakk]

I just added a 3rd pin-- and did some moving around of games.

This is the best part of the hobby for me....enjoy the photos!  

Not pictured is my Fortune teller with candy machines (the kind you see in diners); my Arkanoid Bartop and my cocktail. 

I'm pretty sure your wife told you to keep your silly hobby to that one small corner of the basement, you remember right after she said "sure, you can paint the basement any color you want, as long as any color you want is white".  Seems like your collection is starting to creep outward a bit.  Be a shame if she had to bring the hammer down...

[Swillie]

Would love a nice finished full basement for my gameroom.... one day. For now I get the 'room under the stairs'. Just re-organized everything recently, don't think there is much else I can fit in there. Would like to get a digital pinball, like a Funhouse but I can play about 250 tables on the MAME cab so that keeps me from pulling the trigger, barely.

[leapinlew]

Would love a nice finished full basement for my gameroom.... one day. For now I get the 'room under the stairs'. Just re-organized everything recently, don't think there is much else I can fit in there. Would like to get a digital pinball, like a Funhouse but I can play about 250 tables on the MAME cab so that keeps me from pulling the trigger, barely.

Love it!

[pinballwizard79]

DUDE Swillie mad mad mad props for the driving sim rig under the steps 

[Gavica]

Would love a nice finished full basement for my gameroom.... one day. For now I get the 'room under the stairs'. Just re-organized everything recently, don't think there is much else I can fit in there. Would like to get a digital pinball, like a Funhouse but I can play about 250 tables on the MAME cab so that keeps me from pulling the trigger, barely.

nice, what racing gaming chair is that?

[Swillie]

Thanks for the nice props.   The driving sim is my favorite gizmo. The chair is an Ultimate Gaming Chair Renegade. impulse buy from Costco a few years back. It has sound triggered blue ground effects lighting, head rest speakers and 12 discreet vibration motors and a cup holder  . If you hit the left wall you feel it on that side, that chair was way worth it ($200 bucks I think). A stereo receiver behind the setup powers speakers in the cabinet as well as the chair. My son is on notice, he has till the end of March to get his fill of Black Ops, than the PS3 and GT5 are going in that thing. 

[Nephasth]

Personally, I think the didgeridoos are tits! 

[Swillie]

Personally, I think the didgeridoos are tits! 

Most people don't know what they are , good eye. The Bally Boomerang used to sit right there next to them, when i found out there was a pin that matched the theme, it only took a week to score one for $200.  Simple table, was dirty but cleaned up nice.

[extendedplayarcade]

Yeah I bought a Theater of Magic over 10 years ago for 1,500 bucks and restored it slowly over the years.  The pin was in good shape but need some work.  I fixed it all up and sold it along with a Restored Addams Family (paid 2,200) and Cue Ball wizzard (paid 1,200) for a packaged deal of 11,000 bucks. So I made some good bank on that one.  I actually bought my wife's wedding ring with the money.  Go ahead and insert all your insulting comments to me    I have heard them all.  But my wife is all for having a golden tee in my living room.



and soon a cocktail table when I am ever finished with it. I will post pics

OMG! Is that a Theater of Magic? I hear those sell for up to $2,000! What did you pay for that?

He paid a lot more than 2K, lol.

[opt2not]

Would love a nice finished full basement for my gameroom.... one day. For now I get the 'room under the stairs'. Just re-organized everything recently, don't think there is much else I can fit in there. Would like to get a digital pinball, like a Funhouse but I can play about 250 tables on the MAME cab so that keeps me from pulling the trigger, barely.

Nice job on the space you've got there. It may be small, but I think you used it pretty well!  Also, gotta give you respect for the rod hockey table, love playing those things! One of these days I wanna get my hands on a full Chexx bubble hockey. One of my favourite nightclubs that used to be here in Vancouver (before it demolished for more condo buildings..grrrr!), had a Chexx that we'd play while enjoying a night out gettin' drunk. Fun times!

  I actually bought my wife's wedding ring with the money.  Go ahead and insert all your insulting comments to me    I have heard them all.  But my wife is all for having a golden tee in my living room.

Ahhh, the things we give up for wives...
btw, you've got a gorgeous looking home extendedplayarcade.
Love the wall colour, and that patio outside looks great!

[pinballwizard79]

Dear extendedplayarcade

You should have sold your nards instead, at least then you would still have your games...now you have neither (games = sold, bolas = she took em).

Who am I kidding, my wife's ring is the reason I didnt get my LCD pin & life sized stormtrooper last year 

[Gray_Area]

Personally, I think the didgeridoos are tits!  

Most people don't know what they are , good eye.

I couldn't find them. Now, OH, there they are on the wall. But they don't look like the ones I remember anyways, so....


I can't imagine having a GT cabinet instead of an Adams Family pin, let alone a ToM table. I would gut and MAME that cabinet, and keep the pins. Paying more than $100 for jewelry eludes my sensibility. However, if you both are happy, then good enough.

[Paul Olson]

I don't have anything fancy like some of you, and it is all in the garage, but I am really enjoying the lineup now. The Konami cab at the end with no CP is my old MAME cab. It may become an X-Men one of these days. All that is left of the MAME setup is the modular cp, computer, and a new 32" LCD TV. Hopefully I will get around to building a cab for it this summer.

[HaRuMaN]

^  Nice!!!   

[kronic24601]

First of all, you guys all have a really outstanding collection of arcades/pinball and other. I'm quite jealous of the space you have available to store everything (and a wife that allows it). I live in Los Angeles, and have a pretty small house (1350 sq feet). We moved in 6 months ago and I converted the garage into this (below). My struggle was that I wanted more than a Game Room, I also wanted a workshop and a place to play board games (I love me some good Euro board games). Anyway, this is the current outcome. I really want a Pinball ... going to have to figure a way to squeeze it in...



MAME ARCADE


4 Player Control Panel (Actlabs gun shells - with AimTrak inners)


Pole Position II


Lifetime Double Shot - Basketball Arcade


Dart Board

[Paul Olson]

My girlfrend can never see that picture with the skeeball in it.

I love the work area. Mine seems to be shrinking all the time to make room for more games.

[drventure]

That's WAY too neat a garage 

Nice collection though. I love the skeeball too!

[extendedplayarcade]

Nice Skeeball and those floors are mint.  If you saw a photo of my garage it looks like a tornado hit it.   Great job.  I love the framed posters as well.  Were did you get the frames?  What size?  I have a collection of original Star Wars posters I want to put up but can't (not really tried) find black frames for it.  Great job.  invite us over 

[pinballwizard79]

Paul & Kronic your garages are waaaay cooler than mine, wow nice spaces  

Paul you really have some great dedicated machines there, I like it. Reminds me of Frizzle's place are you guys brothers?

Kronic that space looks purdy, all that grey & sealed floors + those dope posters & money shop. Damn that was well done!

EDIT: Best board ever = Winmau Blade 3

[kronic24601]

Thanks guys. The floors are super awesome, I love them the most. The garage was a total revamp for me. I did 80% of it myself. I tore out the ceiling joists, installed new ones, installed electrical /lights, installed a radiant barrier, insulated, added attic ladder, prepp-ed for drywall, painted, installed a new Garage door, and installed all the Gladiator garage products. Here is what it looked like during the demo.



I didn't do all the drywall work, and I didn't do the floors (which look so much more awesome in person). Otherwise it's a brand-spankin-new garage for gaming and hanging. I watch Futurama from the TV (on the fridge) from a netflix stream on wifi ... and puts around in there tweaking with MAME settings pretty much every night now.

The Skeeball was a pain in the @SS to move and restore. It's a full 13' skeeball from 1980. But it cleaned up pretty good. I still need to configure the tickets dispenser and get a replacement coin mech (it was empty when I bought it).

As for the Posters, they are 18x24. I took the artwork from http://flyers.arcade-museum.com and then put it in photoshop, blew them up and retraced a lot of the elements so they would look good when printed. It's not 100% by any means, but you can't tell at all from a few feet away. They look great. Also, there is a local framing company near me that mounts them to foam-core, and installed them with metal frames and actual glass for only $20 ... that was crazy. I first tried target but they sucked!

I have now slipped in a boardgame table/workshop table that I built that takes up most of the center of the room. It's on wheels so I can roll it out of the garage for parties and such ... but I find it useful.


I could not have done any of this without first building a very large shed, Google scketchup, an imagination, and the Federal "First Time Home Buyers" tax credit