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Gameroom musthaves
Flake:
I agree the term gameroom certainly seems to hold a different for some on this forum. Myself, I like big open spaces in my house so when i finished my basement I planned accordingly. To wall off several enclosed rooms just to have a "dedicated gameroom" and "dedicated tv room" didnt make much sense. For resale value purposes alone its a good idea to have one big wide open room downstairs rather than several closed off rooms. In the end you really have more living space that way. So that being said, if this is your route, you have no choice but to combine all these things together, arcade, tv, bar, poker table, pinball, whatever. Like I say, I think its cool to go downstairs and have everything out in the open accessible to all. It makes gatherings/parties more social anyway since you dont have a bunch of people grouped off in different rooms.
All that being said, when I finished my basement, due to the design of the house, there is one fairly good sized room downstairs that isnt necessarily "open". We put all our exercise equipment in there, eliptical, bowflex, treadmill since we didnt want that out in the open we "enclosed" the room with double french doors. So the room can appear closed off or open depending on what you want. This room also doubles as a play room for our daughter and houses many of her downstairs toys. I have thought lately how cool it would be to take everything out of there, lay some arcade type carpet down, install some blacklights, and start filling it with arcades and pinballs but the wife wont go for it. Besides, what would I do with all the exercise equipment I use on a daily basis :).
Loafmeister:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on January 20, 2009, 09:12:25 am --- Eventually, I would like to set up a wall of consoles, from classic to modern, but that will have to wait as that wall is currently occupied by my office, pending my finding the time to pour the floor and frame in my real office.
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I plan on having a smaller "gameroom" in my basement, the room is already there, just waiting for the kids to move out. ;) It will then become a pseudo "classic gameden" which will house all the vintage consoles, from the pong clone right up to what got kicked out of the main gameroom (by then, the PS2 I guess). My collection is growing quite bit, will be a crowded wall. Is your collection extensive Cheffo?
vidmouse:
Right now I have a cardboard castle,
little people and imaginext playsets galore,
enough lego's to stage a Harry Potter vs Gi Joe war (oh, an easy outcome, that)
and my two cab's.
Pool table's in storage right now, looking for a buyer
(decided I wanted two more cabs vs the table)
CheffoJeffo:
Consoles ... not really ... (Intellivision for Mrs. Cheffo, Dreamcast for me, NES, SuperNES, N64 and PS2 for the kids and Wii for everybody).
Cabinets ... not as much as I would like ... about 20 games in various stages of (dis)repair, a pair of slots and a lone pin. I have space for more, but am reserving it for key items on my wishlist.
Flake:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on January 20, 2009, 11:00:17 am ---Consoles ... not really ... (Intellivision for Mrs. Cheffo, Dreamcast for me, NES, SuperNES, N64 and PS2 for the kids and Wii for everybody).
Cabinets ... not as much as I would like ... about 20 games in various stages of (dis)repair, a pair of slots and a lone pin. I have space for more, but am reserving it for key items on my wishlist.
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You have 20 cabinets? Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---!
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