Documentary: The Evolution of Your Gaming Setup (aka Happy Place)

[nullity]

I've come to realize that I enjoy setting up and tweaking and upgrading and enhancing and rearranging my gaming area/equipment almost as much as I enjoy gaming!  It is my happy place... where the screaming children are someone else's problem... where cooking/fashion television programming is not allowed... where I can release tremendous amounts of flatus into my beanbag and there's not a goddamned thing anyone can do about it.

I know there are other similar threads, but this one's goal is to chronicle the rise to greatness of your happy place!

If you wish to participate, the guidelines are:
[ul][li]Any evolution of your gaming area should be documented by appending it to your original post in this thread so that the progression can be easily viewed by yourself and others.[/li][li]Please be sure to state the date of each update you append to your original thread.[/li][li]Please limit image width to 600px or so... a little larger is fine, (i use 620px) but the world hates horizontal scrollbars... so just don't do it! If you must post a higher res image, please link to it using a lower resolution thumbnail.[/li][li]You are allowed to bump the thread to let the world know that you've updated your original post. Might even want to link to it so the soon-to-be fans of this thread can easily see the update.[/li][/ul]
Happy Place Directory:[ul][li]nullity (you are here)[/li][li]Esteban[/li][li]Opethian[/li][li]esadajr[/li][li]Majors[/li][li]xelement5x[/li][li]_joshuaTurbo[/li][li]Ji-L87[/li][li]jeffhlewis[/li][li]The Old Rover[/li][li]PunkicCybork[/li][/ul]

Let the epeen waving begin!!! I'll start...

March 4th, 2014
For this initial post, I've chosen to annotate the details of my current setup within the image.  I'll probably just use good old text to note any changes that are made after this point.

June 11th, 2014
Currently a low-resolution photo with very few details (i'm still organizing and stuff) but thought I'd do a preliminary update because I'm impatient and can't stand waiting until i have time to properly label a higher resolution panorma.

[MotherGunner]

Could. Not. Resist.

[RoyVegas]

Could. Not. Resist.

I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast........

[esteban]

I have no evolution.

No game room.

I keep an old SONY CRT in a closet on an old blanket and SLIDE IT OUT when I play the video games. The blanket is powder blue (my favorite color).

 

Robin's Egg Blue?

Occasionally, I like to compare the CRT versus Modern HDTV (mounted on wall, it can pull out and swivel).

[RoyVegas]

I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast........

Found the clip, couldn't help but post it..

[roflmao]

March 4th, 2014
For this initial post, I've chosen to annotate the details of my current setup within the image.  I'll probably just use good old text to note any changes that are made after this point.

I think there's another thread somewhere in the abyss where people post their setups, but your approach is worth creating a new thread for. Both of my play areas are in a sad state of disarray currently, but when I get around to cleaning them up and organizing them better (and taking a photo of my rats nest of wires for that other thread), I'll post here.

One suggestion I would make is if at all possible make your 600-620px wide image link to a larger image hosted elsewhere, expecially if there's text all over the place.   My poor eyes can't read that stuff.

Aside: I have a BIC F-12 in my living room and it's capable of rattling the pictures on the walls (until I put it on an acoustic isolation riser).  Having 2 of those bad boys must be brain-meltingly awesome!

[jeffhlewis]

I'm counting down the days until I move out of this sardine can apartment downtown and into a proper 3-bedroom, one room of which will be said "happy place." Until then it's just my PVM with nothing plugged into it and 8 steralite containers all worth more than my car.

[Opethian]

my daily beater

[esadajr]

My humble setup. This is just the retro part. 7th gen onwards is in another room.

[munchiaz]

Really like this thread idea of the progression of your happy place. Ill have to post some pictures of my happy place later tonight. Also i will be moving soon, so i will be doing some changes very soon

[majors]

Console setup:
Old apartment circa 2005-


Current house June 2013



Basement movie room 201x-ish(first form):

I'm currently re-working the setup for a new screen I have. I'll have updated shot in the next month(waiting on new cables).


March 2014 HT update, in beta form:
-got a new screen so I had to move the PJ closer. Still need to get a HDMI cable so I can move the PC to the new shelf on the wall with the amps. Added some HTIB speaker for the rears and center along with a new projector(Epson 905HD). It's coming along well and the screen DOES make a difference.


Console April update, some small moving around:

With the two new turbobs, I had to move stuff around...no one puts obey in the corner. More wire management going on since I had to remove a PS2 and hook the LD player through the receiver since I ran out of room on the switch box array. I'll have to play with it for a spell to make sure it suits my needs...the HD TV is mainly for OTA, so only the DTV and 360 are hooked up, but I left a PS component cord connected and easy access if the occasion arises.

Not that I need 4 PCE's all hooked up and ready, but...well, yes I DO! The Shuttle needed a riser since the damn A/V out on the Duo (and IFU) stick out, but I feel it makes it looks like it's taking off or flying. I may get creative and fabricate some sort of hidden podium/mount so it truly looks like it's floating.

[majors]

it isn't clear about the Bose bass unit... did it fall out of the trash in the pic or was it just the angle? Either way, better make sure it stays in there where it belongs! ( ;

No fears, it was given to me and was only used as a center(not bass) for a few months. It has since been replaced. I do still have it...waiting for the ebay to gouge the going price so I can make bank on some bose-fanboys.

OG post updated too

[xelement5x]

Here's my setup in my gaming "office"



Most stuff is pretty self explanatory from the labels.  The footstool the cat is sleeping on is one of those you can put stuff in, so it's got all my extra controllers.  The beater NES is one I found for about $5 that had been painted black; it looks like shit but I did all my mods on it and it works like a champ. 

My office is pretty messy, hence why you see stuff all over the place too.

[_joshuaTurbo]

Oddly, I don't have any actual pics (Will have to remedy that), but I do have some videos. 

Here's when we first moved into our house, and was starting to get the game stuff into the game den:
Actual presentation starts at 1:22.  Sorry, I ramble.....

Here's a few months later (Rambling warnings!) 

i should get some pics together of how things look now.  It's coming along nicely.

[Necromancer]

Heh, terrible CEDs.