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

[PunkicCyborg]

Game room before friends came over the other night

[PunkicCyborg]

Nice! I would comment on how cool many things are... but i see that boom box on the shelf in the corner and all I can think about is how I wanna prop it on my shoulder, get out my parachute pants, and dance like hammer.

That is  a Lasonic TRC-975 JUMBO, it's to big I doubt you could carry it on your shoulder very long

[jtucci31]

Game room before friends came over the other night

2 candy cabs! My jealousy is overflowing. Great game room!

What PCB's ya got in them?

[Medic_wheat]

I'll see what I can dig up...I have done so many moves I am not sure what kind of state my various gaming setups looked like.


I can say that my current one is.......well...........loosed up...sigh......

Sure I have a little still put together but it pains me to think the majority is in storage...I seriously hope it doesn't take me ten years until the wide and I get our first house.......

[Medic_wheat]

Lol oh how I hate my inept spelling cuppled with auto txt...


Wife lol wife. Lol not the wide lol......trust me she can't even donate blood she is so skinny lol....which I find funny when she complains about her weight lol

[jeffhlewis]

Updated pics of my abode on page 3...

[PunkicCyborg]

Game room before friends came over the other night

2 candy cabs! My jealousy is overflowing. Great game room!

What PCB's ya got in them?

I have about 15 PCBs right now. The one that's vert is currently set up with rotary sticks and heavy barrel and the hori I usually play my shooters. Think I have Xexex in there right now

[Medic_wheat]

Wow I didn't realize Ikea make corner shelfs..makes them look much more professonal in the space instead of having gaps and mesh mash of shelfs cramed in.  Now I feel doing Ikea (when I get my first house/man cave) will be the way to go so I can maximiz my shelfing and access/display of stuff. 

I always preffer a clean organized game room versus having stacks and stacks of games hidden behind games ontop of systems.....mainly becuase it looks messy but equally because you end up ignoring games and systems because they are not viewable/accessable/ready to go. 

[jeffhlewis]

it's the classic "Billy" bookshelf system from IKEA - the corner unit really is just a half sized shelf along with a special bracket that makes them all fit together snug. You bolt the tops together and use the bracket on the floor to line them up at angles. Pretty ingenious actually and very easy to install.

Three shelves, the corner unit and the bracket was about $350 I think after taxes.

I think I can avoid having to buy a fourth full sized shelf if I can just pick up extra shelves - each bookcase had about three feet of free space at the bottoms.

[Medic_wheat]

it's the classic "Billy" bookshelf system from IKEA - the corner unit really is just a half sized shelf along with a special bracket that makes them all fit together snug. You bolt the tops together and use the bracket on the floor to line them up at angles. Pretty ingenious actually and very easy to install.

Three shelves, the corner unit and the bracket was about $350 I think after taxes.

I think I can avoid having to buy a fourth full sized shelf if I can just pick up extra shelves - each bookcase had about three feet of free space at the bottoms.

that is the thing I always find odd with Ikea shelfs.....the finding just the shelfs for extra use in already owned book shelfs is always a PAIN ....BUT I am going to book mark this for future refferance and that price is pretty good!....is the material quality? NO but if you are living in a house instead of apartment hoping like I have in the past and only really need to install and leave in place instead of move the darn thing around and get the partical baords and cardboard all messed up it will be fine. 

[jeffhlewis]

that is the thing I always find odd with Ikea shelfs.....the finding just the shelfs for extra use in already owned book shelfs is always a PAIN ....BUT I am going to book mark this for future refferance and that price is pretty good!....is the material quality? NO but if you are living in a house instead of apartment hoping like I have in the past and only really need to install and leave in place instead of move the darn thing around and get the partical baords and cardboard all messed up it will be fine. 

Eh...it's typical IKEA shit - one step away from being cardboard. The finish is pretty nice and they're pretty sturdy all things considered. I wouldn't put it in a damp area like a basement unless you had a dehumidifier down there. They're light enough that one person can carry them in and out of rooms. Gets the job done for what I need it for. Buying quality real-wood bookshelves would have set me back two times as much easily.

[Medic_wheat]

that is the thing I always find odd with Ikea shelfs.....the finding just the shelfs for extra use in already owned book shelfs is always a PAIN ....BUT I am going to book mark this for future refferance and that price is pretty good!....is the material quality? NO but if you are living in a house instead of apartment hoping like I have in the past and only really need to install and leave in place instead of move the darn thing around and get the partical baords and cardboard all messed up it will be fine. 

Eh...it's typical IKEA shit - one step away from being cardboard. The finish is pretty nice and they're pretty sturdy all things considered. I wouldn't put it in a damp area like a basement unless you had a dehumidifier down there. They're light enough that one person can carry them in and out of rooms. Gets the job done for what I need it for. Buying quality real-wood bookshelves would have set me back two times as much easily.

The funny thing is I have a friend who is a carprinter who minus beer and materials would do a similar set up as your for free, but he doesn't live where I am at and asking the guy to travel 4 plus hours to spend a wekeend to build me a play den is asking to much......maybe.....I don't know ......lol.......I am sure he'd do it, but I first need to buy a hosue so this is all just wishfull thinking and dreaming.....

[Medic_wheat]

The more I look at how this space was really maximized I drool...


Honestly if I could find this exact design but in aluminum all metal that would REALLY excite me.


Okay not these picture lol the one of all the shells lined up with that corner unit lol

[xelement5x]

I use the Billy bookcases as well in my office and I think they're pretty solid for what you're paying.  I couldn't build anything of similar quality for that price or less once I factored in my time, so that's what I used. Another thing I really like about them is the cutout on the back so that they can fit over your trim and right against the wall!

What I did after setting them up though, is stack a majority of my console boxes on top of them to kind of have a display area and maximize the vertical space all the way up to the ceiling. 

[Sadler]

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