Someone's Game Room

[RayB]

Last Saturday I went to an "arcade parts swap meet" here in southern Ontario (Canada).

Here are photos of the game room and work shop of the guy who hosted this get-together: http://rayb.com/photos/swapmeet2005/index.html

[Level42]

Sigh......yeah the world's an unfair place....

[ChadTower]

Not bad... I've seen some personal gamerooms, though, that are worth more than some peoples' houses.  That is when you say life is unfair.

[CheffoJeffo]

Not bad... I've seen some personal gamerooms, though, that are worth more than some peoples' houses.  That is when you say life is unfair.

You mean like this ...

Cheers

[ChadTower]

I know a couple of guys who have been featured in that magazine... but hey, at least I get to hang out in such gamerooms occasionally.

[Skadar]

You mean like this ...

What a maintenance nightmare!

Hey, I gotta look at it that way... otherwise I might cry.

[ChadTower]

forget the arcade, I want the property and that cabin.

[SuperGunGuru]

Not bad... I've seen some personal gamerooms, though, that are worth more than some peoples' houses.

[CheffoJeffo]

Not bad... I've seen some personal gamerooms, though, that are worth more than some peoples' houses.  That is when you say life is unfair.

You mean like this ...

Cheers

Time to change my major to whatever gets me his job.

He's a slate roofer ...

Cheers.

[ChadTower]

That is the type of collection you get from inherited money, usually.

[CheffoJeffo]

The article (available in the magazine itself) indicates that he is self-finanaced and has been collecting since 1982. He had an arcade for a while, then had a route, all to finance his collection.


Cheers

[ChadTower]

Yeah, but look at the cabin.  He didn't get that roofing or with a route on the side.

[SuperGunGuru]

Not bad... I've seen some personal gamerooms, though, that are worth more than some peoples' houses.

[Level42]

You mean like this ...

What a maintenance nightmare!

Hey, I gotta look at it that way... otherwise I might cry.

Think about the electicity bill that guy will have
And you still can only play one game at a time
And when you finished dustind the last one, you need to start with the first one again ....
There, does that help you from crying, no ? Same here....boohoo 

The good thing is that it's great that all these wonderful machines are sound and safe and well taken care of.

I was thinking, someone in the US should start a travel company, offering holidays visiting still existing and fun (classic games) arcades and make deals with people who have game rooms (nice way to get back some cash for the hobby) for "bed & breakfast & gaming"....there, one free idea for a company, I hand it over to all of you, if you will let me be your first customer (for a buddies price of course)

Groetjes, Andr

[MaximRecoil]

I like that guy's 7UP machine. BTW, I think a good game room needs, in addition to arcade machines, a soda machine from the 70's or 80's, a jukebox from the 70's or 80's and a coin-operated pool table from pretty much whenever, since they all look about the same.

If money wasn't an issue, I would definitely have those things in a game room.

[esser]

I think the idea of a bed and breakfast gaming type buisiness is great, but is the rest of the place as well kept as the game room?
Ahhhhhhhhh probably not!
I dont know too many gamers who are neat freaks, or can provide a nice picnic packed lunch!

[ChadTower]

Dude, pin collectors are more anal than porn queens.  I know a lot of them, they can get the lockdown bar and glass off a pin in seconds to clean that speck of dust off the playfield.

[Abomination]

Not bad... I've seen some personal gamerooms, though, that are worth more than some peoples' houses.

[esser]

Chadtower your right most collectors of anything are anal, when it comes to their collections!
I know a guy who owns classic cars which are emaculate but he lives in a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- hole where he eats off of the same table his dog sleeps on!
But i take your point. Thanks.