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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: bikingjahuty on January 27, 2019, 10:26:43 am
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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I have a huge game room that takes up 80% of the basement but I would like to access the other 20% eventually I would like to add a couch and take my arcades out of storage and have a small lounge area.
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I pretty much need 2 things: Custom shelves and a gaming table.
While I have many media and other shelving units, I really want something truly designed to store all my books and games (both video and board). Even dedicated shelves for multimedia storage have problems with spacing, leaving that one row that's too short for a DVD sized case to fit in. Similarly, for my board games, I want something similar to the upcoming Box Throne, but more wood than metal.
As for the table, I host many board game nights, but the current furniture is showing it's age, and I want to go to the next level. A nice, long table that comfortably sits 6, with a recessed interior for the playing field, but a cover to easily convert back to a regular table. Then add cup holders and fold down drawers around the edges and put a groove in the top all around that functions as a card holder.
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I can't complain about my current game room... I have a 32" LED that is perfect for the mini consoles such as the Nintendo ones and one huge Trinitron CRT TV with enough RGB and S-Video jacks to support all the 16 consoles that are currently connected to it and I can easily swap between them just by clicking a button.
In the living room, I have all my current/last gen consoles connected in a 52" 4K TV. And I there is still space to grow.
If I could ask for anything, it would be to have more space to store/display the boxes of the consoles and accessories and that my wife enjoyed games as much as I do, haha. Apart from that, no complains ^_^
(I'd love having space for an arcade cabinet though...)
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Regarding a home arcade, I always envisioned this being separate from my gameroom. I thought it would be cool to transform my basement or part of it into an arcade, but the only problem is that I need a basement first. It would also be nice if it were a walk out basement since it would make the task of getting cabinets in and out of it a lot easier than lugging the machine inside and down some narrow stairs into the basement.
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Better lighting
As you referred to, I really want to do the awesome lighting set up that will bascially make almost every section of my game room glow with glorious LED and i'll have different sets that can all go off with voice command with Alexa :).
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Outside of that I also am getting cluttered in my main game room, so I need to expand into making my attic climate controlled and carpeted with all new flooring and insulating and the sorts. Which will be brutally expensive but essentially transform my attic into yet another apartment which can be dedicated to soley the collection and making it bigger. Thus making my final game cave. It will be all my games and then some up there. It'll basically be the dream game cave. But that's in the works in a few years and with a lot of money ;D
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A couch
I could really use a bed or couch but of course need to free up the space first. But right now my sole furniture in my game room is a computer chair and I lay down on a pillow and look up at the games and stuff :)
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I hope everyone has a great day and succeeds in their game room goals.
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I'm pretty happy with my current set up. I've been playing with the idea of re-organizing everything for a better look and accessibility, but that means taking everything out of the shelves and that's something I definitely am not prepared to do...at least not now. I just recently got a curio cabinet/shelf from IKEA to complement my glass stand, so I think I'm set as far as everything I want in my room goes.
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Basically more space, a nice TV with HDMI and analog, and all my consoles hooked up with really good cable management.
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My collection is pretty huge and we don't have basements here, so my collection is fractured and spread throughout the house. I've only put a little thought into it.
I'd want a huge room, probably the size of a basement. Here, it'd probably have to be an add-on or a guest house type thing. It would definitely have to have some sort of air conditioning because it gets HOT here. No windows. That's about as far as I've thought it through.
I'd love to hang posters and wall scrolls, but I think I'd hate the idea of displaying my games like a game store or library, but maybe if it was like a 50/50 thing where one end is the games all library style and the other end is setups to play and such.
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My game room is quite different the way I setup things is (for the most part) I try to sort my games out with it's genre. For example I have most of my sports NES cartridges kept away in a cabinet, with other NES sports games. As for shooting games my 1 NES shooting game is located in a loose drawer with N64 Xbox Xbox360 PS3 PS2 and PS1 shooting video games.
RPG's and miscellaneous games inside a box mixed up. I have too much furniture in my game room to have a large spacious shelving unit. But I manage to keep all my Video Game Compilations on one shelf, all my golf games on every console I have on another shelf, than some other games on a shelf that I currenty don't rememebr what is on there, and some PS2 games are in a wooden CD/DVD holder
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If I had the space and money, my ideal game room would look basically like a Blockbuster with rack shelving to better display stuff so that everything isn't just the spine of the game shown. Basically like what "The Last Gamer" on Youtube did for his crazy game house for the main room he teased in his latest video.
A little more realistic in scale and scope, would be to make it more like my old local video store, with wood paneling, but similar sorta racks for displaying games for better browsing, complete with a counter/checkout area. Essentially what James Rolfe/Cinemassacre did that you see in their video reviews. I would just more basically like to display my games with covers shown than only seeing spines.
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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
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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
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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
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
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- 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.
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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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If budget was of no concern, I would love to build a game room that is fully automated. Self-adjusting lights and air-conditioning, voice-activated monitors/TVs that would switch on once a specific command has been said, and maybe even retrofitting cd-based consoles with parts from a jukebox to automatically load games from my collection that I want to play. Easier said than done of course, but who knows if technology in the future will allow such a thing to be possible. For modern games, I mostly play those titles from my computer, so I would consider setting up the room in such a way that this would become the primary focus. For example, mini-bar fridge under the desk and electrical power strips with movable and detachable sockets to accommodate power delivery to the computer, monitors, routers, etc.
If I were going for a more budget-conscious game room, then the first thing I would do would be to upgrade my desk to a longer one with stow-away compartments for wires and place everything I use on top of the desk including the consoles. I would also replace my current chair to something more comfortable, and I would install wall- mounted overhead cabinets with locks to keep my collections safe and easy to access. Finally, I would put some bias lighting around the monitors and TV to keep eye strain at bay.
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My ideal game room would have a titanium door to keep the girlfriend and other agitators out!
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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.
I’ve literally done bits of all your ideas. I moved two months ago into a new house with a walk out basement complete with a sub pump. ;) Built ins for my games/collectibles are getting installed soon.
Instead of a pool or air hockey table, I’ve kept a 8ftx8ft area open for unobstructed freestyle Oculus Quest VR usage.
My lights are all color selectable Phillips hue and can be switch or voice activated. I also have led strip accent lighting.
I have an arcade/pinball area, vr area, console gaming area complete with green screen and streaming setup and a table top gaming area. Separate from all that is the home theatre. The basement has double doors for easy pinball/arcade delivery. And the entire outside perimeter of the house has 24/7 active video (motion detection) surveillance and lighting.
Still not my ideal gaming space because one things missing. Friends.
If any of ya’ll (that knew me before this post) are ever in the area hit me up. I also have a guest bedroom. But if you’d rather sleep in the game room... the sofa is a pull out sleeper. :)
I really like the idea some else here had of dedicated rooms for each era. But my wife would never go for that.
If you see my 1st and second floor it’s like a normal house. :) You’d never know I’m a gamer.
One more project we’re working on is a tardis facade for the home theatre.
So in the gaming area you’ll see a tardis against the wall. If you open it up and go in it will open into the home theatre.
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One more project we’re working on is a tardis facade for the home theatre.
So in the gaming area you’ll see a tardis against the wall. If you open it up and go in it will open into the home theatre.
Dude! If I had my little way, I’d have Scooby Doo doors everywhere. Pull a book and the bookcase is a door. I love the Tardis idea!
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One more project we’re working on is a tardis facade for the home theatre.
So in the gaming area you’ll see a tardis against the wall. If you open it up and go in it will open into the home theatre.
Dude! If I had my little way, I’d have Scooby Doo doors everywhere. Pull a book and the bookcase is a door. I love the Tardis idea!
Started out thinking of something like that. The home theatre is easy to miss. It’s kinda like “oh hey. This is over here.”
We talked about a book shelf but then it just seemed like the “bigger on the inside” theme made more sense. :)
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Sorry for my very late reply. Couldn't resist writing about my dream room.
My ideal game room would be a cozy haven.
A spacious room adorned with dimmable LED lights. In the center, a sectional sofa, something like this (https://whataroom.com/collections/l-sectional/products/daphne-sofa-chaise), big enough to comfortably seat my friends for marathon gaming sessions. Surrounding us, shelves filled with board games, consoles, and VR headsets.
On one side, a high-end gaming PC setup with multiple monitors. And in the corner, a retro gaming station, complete with classic consoles and arcade machines.
To top it off, a mini-fridge stocked with refreshments and snacks.
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I already have my ideal gaming room and like I said earlier I sort by genre signs and today my gaming room is maxed out and so is my current gaming hard drive.
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Of course, one can always wish for more games and consoles, but I'd be lying if I said I am not very satisfied with my game room as it is right now.
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Of course, one can always wish for more games and consoles, but I'd be lying if I said I am not very satisfied with my game room as it is right now.
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Beautiful. I saw your video from many years ago. Very cool.
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More space. High cielings like the library from beauty and the beast except games instead of books and a wall of CRTs with different consoles attatched to each. No splitters. No inverters. No cables visible. Just some sort of voodoo where you can play any console with its own unique color cordinated TV that spins from behind the wall like a hidden safe. So a genesis will have a black and red and chrome tough looking Zenith. And a super nintendo would have a grey and purple panasonic. Playstation a sony trinitron. And a person on a yearly salary whos whole job is to switch games. So you say. Ashley!! Craig!! Put in my copy of maximum carnage. Donkey kong country has bored me. And they say "yes sir" like alfred from batman and a molecular device that lets you talk to a skilled arcade master like a bio nuclear tips and strats magazine from 96. Pizza that doesn't get you fat. A bunch of neons. The sphinx from las vegas except instead of a lion its got a giant yoshi head. A bunch of luigi statues. Every north american super nintendo game. An air brushed mural that says nintendo is what genesisnt. And a guy that can and will dress up as cookie konster going through detox from cookie that says c is for contra and thats good enough for me. Paid exclusively in oreos under the table behind his parole officers back.
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So I highly recommend buying and getting a sub pump installed and de-humidifier in your house if it has a basement.[/b]
Yeah, oldgamerz is right! Even if you don't live in your basement, it is important to take measures to keep both games and consoles dry and clean. This will definitely help in preserving your beloved collection.
By the way, do you have any photos of your current collection, oldgamerz? I remember you posted some pics of your setup some years ago, but I'd love to check out how's the game room now.