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bikingjahuty:
This was inspired by MarvelvsCapcom2's lighting thread, but it made me think what I wish I could do with my game room versus how it is right now. I thought it would be fun to hear how other people plan or wish they could improve their game rooms as well. Here is what I could have if I could right now.


More Space: For probably the last 5-years, this has been an ongoing issue that has forced me to get very creative on how to display as much of my stuff in my game room as I can. Unfortunately all the creativity in the world will not allow me to have my entire collection on display mostly given the lack of space I'm currently working with. My game room is in a roughly 100-square foot bedroom. There is literally no more wall space for me to add shelves to house games, and I am currently close to running out of room on most of my shelves. In probably a year or two I will likely have no more shelf space on several of my shelves, requiring that I figure somethings else out given the ever expanding nature of my room. Ideally I'd like to have around 200-250 square feet to work with as this would allow me to have enough space for everything I'd need and like to have in my game room, and allow me plenty of room to show off all the consoles collections I have.


More Shelves: Going along with more space, I've always tried to organize my collection by having specific consoles on shelves that adequately hold a specific or a few specific consoles that are related in some way (having Sega Saturn and Sega CD games on the same shelf, or one shelf for all my PS2 games). Sadly, because of lack of space I've had to purchase several large shelved and throw many different console collections on them, many completely unrelated. I've still done pretty good in terms of keeping things organized the way I would want, but I do have one shelf in particular where my NES, SNES, Genesis, 3DS, GB, GBA, XBOX, XBOX 360, Switch, Wii, Wii U, and Gamecube games are housed....yeah. I would someday like to have this broken up in 3 or 4 smaller shelves where I could place these collections in a much more organized fashion on individual shelves. That's not to say I don't have any need for larger shelves too; many of my Playstation collection are massive and continue to grow. I have a very large shelf that has worked great for my PS2 collection, and would like another one just as big someday for my PS3, PS4, PSP, and Vita games to go on. And finally, having more shelves gives you more space on top of them to display cool swag related to that console such as console boxes, collectors editions, action figures, statues and all kinds of other awesomeness.


More Sega Swag: As much as I adore Sega I have a startling lack of Sega related merchandise on my game room. Meanwhile I have a ton of Nintendo related stuff. Again, needing more room and shelf space someday, it is my goal to amass a lot of Sega related swag for my room. This included figures, plushes, statues, promotional items, and other cool items to display.


Better TV and console management: What I mean by this is having a better system for how my consoles connect to my TVs and also having better TV stands to place all my consoles in so they can all be easily accessed and used at the push of a few buttons. I'd like to purchase a receiver someday, most likely two that connect to all my consoles and connect them to two or three TVs. Currently my consoles are all on two TV stands, both which I've had for years, and they don't allow me to have all my consoles out at the same time. Likewise, I am required to manually unplug one console so I can hook another one up due to lack of inputs. Someday I'd like a large media cabinet where all these consoles are housed along with the receivers so they are all accessed easy from there.

kashell:
At this point, I just want a better TV. The one for gaming is fine and looks nice, but it's pretty old. It's clunky and difficult to move. Something lighter but with the same length and width would be perfect.

hoshichiri:
In a magical world where money & space aren't a concern, I would not have a gaming room... I would practically have a gaming house!

Ok, so- you walk in the main door, and it starts you off in the arcade/snack bar. There's a few lockers by the front for visitors to store their things. The walls are done up in a blacklight space landscape. If my fiance was down, we would add glass display towers of his Star Wars memoribilia in between machines & we'd call it the Mos Eisley Arcade. There's a dividing rope between the arcade and the self service snack bar with professional popcorn machine, soda dispenser, hot dog roller & bulk candy bins becuase you can't take food into the arcade. But there might be a couple cocktail bads amongst the tables.

Off to the side of this is one of those 60s style converation couches, like a big one, at the top of a staircase, along with a couple beanbag chairs. Above this is a skylight window, & possibly a chandelier made of rupees. The wall going towards it is lined with imbedded shelving of various gameboys & what-nots. This Handheld Hall is both a transitional area and a calmer place to hang out.

Going down the stairs brings you to the Main Stage- it is quite literally a small stage. secret panels in the back walls provide storage for Guitar Hero/Rock Band equpiment, as well as VR gear. There's a couple of screens along the stage for players to look at, as well as a big one along the back for spectators. I can't find the pictures now, but the couch in front of the stage would look like a segment from the lobby at the Atari Sunnvale office back in the day.

Around this space would be doors. Each door would go to a seperate era's system room. One room for pre-NES, one room for 8 & 16-bit, then pre-HDMI CD consoles & post-HDMI consoles. Each room would have era appropriate decor and technology... for example, the first two rooms would use CRTs, the third a mix, the last all flatscreen. There would also be a secret door near the base of the stairs, that led to a dungeon-esque room for boards games or D&D. There would also be one or two 'guest rooms', to allow people I trusted to sleep in the space (and for conversion to console rooms for newer machines.)

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Of course, this is never going to happen, I'd have to win one hell of a lottery to afford it. So- I'd just like a dedicated room instead of cramming everything into my bedroom. I've gotten really good at space management over the years, I think if I could have a dedicated room I could make most anything work.

syljoly:
That's my kind of topic at the moment, because I'm moving from Europe to the US in a few days. I have a collection of 600+ games but I don't plan on bringing everything there, at least not yet (don't know how many years I'll stay in the US). Moving is actually a convenient way of curating my collection. I'm only bringing an AV Famicom (fav console), a Switch and a Super NT, for now. I've dumped all my SFC and SNES games to the Super NT so I don't need to bring them with me yet (I could also have downloaded them I know :D). On the next trip I'll bring my Saturn for sure.

My ideal game room is always to be able to pick up any game and being able to play it immediately. Also, I want to buy a TV with the lowest input lag possible, as well as a CRT.

aliensstudios:
I think for me, the top priority is accessibility. I want every system, game and controller ready to go with very little effort. Right now, all of my systems are hooked up through a single hub (my Framemeister) and output through a single HDMI cable. Games are on shelves and fairly accessible, though not quite what I'd prefer and most controllers are ready to go as well. Pretty much any system I want to play takes less than 30 seconds of setup.

I've been looking for a house with a basement so that the basement can be an all-in-one entertainment hub with movies, games, music and maybe a pool or fooshockey table. That's the dream.

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