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Your Ideal Game Room
oldgamerz:
Many of you mentioned wanting a basement game room, I confess I live in one. It' nice. It's like a studio apartment with my own bathroom. But here's the thing, a lot of houses in the United States at least in my area are prone to flooding but luckily for me.
I have a sub pump to help prevent my entire game room and entire basement from flooding, It helps keep my entire basement dry. But one time earlier this year my basement flooded in the bathroom only enough to wet my feet. not anything dangerous, but It could have been a lot worse if my home didn't have a sub pump running to keep water out from underneath my feet. under the basement floor. and back into the front yard where it drains out
A lot of houses these days with a basement have flooding especially if you get a bad rain storm, we here in where I live had tons of heavy downpour this year alone, and my sub pump is always working.
I also have storm drain sewers in my basement, to help drain out the water if in case it does get much worse.
also in my experience basement living is often full of cold dampness and I've seen a few CD/DVD/Blu Ray games rot because of this
So I highly recommend buying and getting a sub pump installed and de-humidifier in your house if it has a basement. getting a sub pump installed for the first time is not cheap though date of this post
But it's your call, sometimes you never need one, but where I live I need one
armani:
everything including furniture in the style of anywhere from the 80s to the early 00s, giant ass tv from the 80s or 90s, my voodoo3 setup sitting in the corner on an old desk with a nice trinitron monitor and big ass 2.1 surround sound speakers and my consoles on an old looking shelf
presumably on the first floor of my house
seriously tired of all that "millenial retro game collector" bullcrap with lights everywhere and flatscreens because it just looks tacky and unfitting
oldgamerz:
--- Quote from: armani on July 27, 2019, 11:09:47 pm ---everything including furniture in the style of anywhere from the 80s to the early 00s, giant ass tv from the 80s or 90s, my voodoo3 setup sitting in the corner on an old desk with a nice trinitron monitor and big ass 2.1 surround sound speakers and my consoles on an old looking shelf
presumably on the first floor of my house
seriously tired of all that "millenial retro game collector" bullcrap with lights everywhere and flatscreens because it just looks tacky and unfitting
--- End quote ---
my gameroom is also a 1980's or 1990's feel, my room has wooden paneling on the walls. Half my basement is the laundry room the other half and a quarter of the basement in my home is where I live mostly. it happens to be the biggest or 2nd biggest room in the house, we have a lot of unused or wasted space also where I live also
firstmateeizen:
* A couch close enough to the TV that I don't have to strain my eyes or use a chair every time I play something like RDR2.
* A shelf for handhelds, with their chargers close by.I don't mind it being my living room, my bedroom is way too hot during Summer.
bikingjahuty:
I've given this topic some more thought since I decided to downsize my collection and my answer to this question has changed some. When I think of my ideal game room now I imagine it having two, maybe three large shelves filled all with games I love; no filler, no rare trophies, just games that I thoroughly enjoy and are the best example of video games I've experienced. Of course I'd have to have a nice, newer HD TV and then a CRT for anything older than Gen 7. I also still want some arcade and pinball machines and I'd have these in the room as well. I want my game room to be a temple of my most treasured and fun games I've ever experienced. I also would want a lot of swag and memorabilia related to the games and console I love. So in a way I still would need a fairly large space to fit all this, but what's different is it wouldn't just be walls and walls lined with shelves full of games like I had originally envisioned.
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