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Title: What's your game room like?
Post by: subzero23 on December 20, 2004, 12:10:31 am
I'd love to see pics of other people's rooms

my future gameroom is going to have a 4player cab, foosball table and dartboard
Title: Re: What's your game room like?
Post by: GGKoul on December 20, 2004, 12:25:28 am
Check out this thread

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,15876.0.html
Title: Re: What's your game room like?
Post by: Gunstar Hero on December 20, 2004, 03:26:04 am
Messy.  :P

I refuse to show it to you!  :-\
Title: Re: What's your game room like?
Post by: Hoagie_one on December 20, 2004, 08:48:44 am
I have one wall with two computer desks and two folding tables setup.  This has my computer, my wife's computer and 4 extra PC monitors set up for Lan party action.  The opposite wall has teh mame cab...unfinished, TV, stereo, and a bunch of bookshelves
Title: Re: What's your game room like?
Post by: ChadTower on December 20, 2004, 09:25:07 am
Right now, very cold. My games are in my basement and it's like 55 degrees down there today.
Title: Re: What's your game room like?
Post by: RayB on December 20, 2004, 10:22:17 am
Umm, "embarassing" would describe mine. It's a 950 sq foot unfinished basement LOADED with stuff. Boxes n boxes of old junk, my summer tires, 3 bikes, a mattress, 2 uninstalled fireplaces, a big pile of laundry, a pile of empty packing boxes, some furniture (not organized in any usable way), tools, my work table (STACKED with arcade parts and other things), a freezer, cat litter box, and... oh yeah, 4 arcade machines in various working states...

This is what half of it looked like in July 2004:
http://www.retrofx.com/arcade/images/workspace.jpg
http://www.retrofx.com/arcade/images/blocked2.jpg
http://www.retrofx.com/arcade/images/blocked.jpg

I had NO access to any of my machines, and my work table. Ridiculous. Then I finally organized and de-junked a bit and moved alot of that stuff over to the other half of the basement. Now it's still a mess but I can walk around.
Title: Re: What's your game room like?
Post by: ChadTower on December 20, 2004, 10:42:48 am
Dude you need to buy some shelf systems and take advantage of all that unused vertical space.  It will clear EVERYTHING out while keeping all the crap.  I did that in my basement, bought like 8 of them... cost me $30/pop, but it cleared out my whole basement into open space.
Title: Re: What's your game room like?
Post by: RayB on December 20, 2004, 10:54:09 am
What do you recommend? Home depot's shelves seem expensive. What did you get for $30--The bare wood kind?
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Post by: eyal8r on December 20, 2004, 11:40:35 am
just get those metal ones from home depot or something- those work perfectly. You wouldn't believe how much weight they hold!  Works for
me...  And I think I got them for like $12 each or something.  3 of those and you're set...
D
Title: Re: What's your game room like?
Post by: ChadTower on December 20, 2004, 11:53:19 am
What do you recommend? Home depot's shelves seem expensive. What did you get for $30--The bare wood kind?


Some plastic assemble yourself things from BJ's.

http://www.contico.com/hard-shel-tb.htm

I'm pretty sure I've seen them at Home Depot, too, though they were a few dollars more than at BJ's.
Title: Re: What's your game room like?
Post by: ErikRuud on December 20, 2004, 02:40:50 pm
This is how I straigtened out my basement!
http://erikruud.freeservers.com/basement/remodel.htm

The two pictures below are much more recent.  You can even see my unfinished cab in the background of the second picture.
Title: Re: What's your game room like?
Post by: Apollo on December 20, 2004, 03:35:56 pm
He he my "games room" is my garage so at the moment it has one Neo Geo machine ( not MAME ), Arcade 360 ( my MAME machine ) and a whole lot of power tools and crap.