Your gaming setup

[Nathan Wind]

A Wind-approved nerve centre, and no mistake.

[peter6168]

Other side

[peter6168]

Some of my games

[Alexlotl]

Your Gaming Setup, two-kids-under-five-and-no-dedicated-room edition.



I had to take the glass doors off the TV cabinet because my 10 month old kept shutting his fingers in them and pulling off the cardboard we'd put on to protect the glass. It has now become a nappy changing area. This left me with nospace of my own, with a need for an easy set-up/tear down way to play.

Framemeister hidden behind TV in vertical stand, along with an individually switchable four block with MD1 (for AV Famicom, SFC Jr) & MD2 (for actual Mega Drive) PSUs permanently in. Two cube boxes in the Ikea Kallax behind me hold consoles, everdrives, pads and other cables, all safe from small hands. Japanese Sega Arcade Power Stick sits on top as an object d'art / territorial marker.

When it's time to play (usually after the kids have gone to bed), consoles can be wired up in 30 seconds, then my big orange chair pulled over for some close-up, low volume gaming (which fortunately fits with the Japanese controller cable lengths). Once done, everything in front of the TV goes back in boxes.

Not the dedicated temples of gaming seen in this thread, but life finds a way.

[RetroPlays]

Love these games rooms, hope to start mine again properly in a few years. The one with the projector is similar to my goal

[acidbearboy]

23 hours ago, Alexlotl said:

Your Gaming Setup, two-kids-under-five-and-no-dedicated-room edition.



I had to take the glass doors off the TV cabinet because my 10 month old kept shutting his fingers in them and pulling off the cardboard we'd put on to protect the glass. It has now become a nappy changing area. This left me with nospace of my own, with a need for an easy set-up/tear down way to play.

Framemeister hidden behind TV in vertical stand, along with an individually switchable four block with MD1 (for AV Famicom, SFC Jr) & MD2 (for actual Mega Drive) PSUs permanently in. Two cube boxes in the Ikea Kallax behind me hold consoles, everdrives, pads and other cables, all safe from small hands. Japanese Sega Arcade Power Stick sits on top as an object d'art / territorial marker.

When it's time to play (usually after the kids have gone to bed), consoles can be wired up in 30 seconds, then my big orange chair pulled over for some close-up, low volume gaming (which fortunately fits with the Japanese controller cable lengths). Once done, everything in front of the TV goes back in boxes.

Not the dedicated temples of gaming seen in this thread, but life finds a way.

Nice work. I have 3 girls myself (aged 1, 3 and 5) so I also have the same problem. I have a 14" monitor that lives in the cupboard out the back, along with a small storage box with whatever console and games I fancy playing. Takes minutes to set up and put away. My desire for a game room has totally subsided. These days I just urge myself to play something (anything) when the opportunity arises. Too easy to sit there and read about games instead of playing them! 

[SeanR]

my current retro set up

 

the space is only as wide as the telly, which is off- centre in the middle of the room, and I have to lie on the floor with my legs out the door, and I can only have one console set up at a time. Two if you count the n64 in situ.

 

but its my games room. And it'll get bigger as I throw stuff away.

[MoFo2]

Merry christmas!

[RastanSaga]

I have a Ps4 set up...I'll do pics of that soon.

 

Here is my current retro set up.

I've culled a lot. Keeping my famicom.

I intend to invest time in my original gaming love, which is arcade.

 

Got Tekken 3 today. Not something I'd of gone for, I'm more an 80's fan.

From a local vendor I'm talking with.

 

It's magnificent!

[TheShend]

I do love that 3S Chun Li portrait.

[RastanSaga]

7 minutes ago, TheShend said:

I do love that 3S Chun Li portrait.

 

Got it off ebay a few years back. Used my birthday cash.

Not sure if it comes up much. Its a beauty

[TheShend]

2 minutes ago, RastanSaga said:

 

Got it off ebay a few years back. Used my birthday cash.

Not sure if it comes up much. Its a beauty

 

I've got the same one but it's in a poster tube until there's a space for it. I do have a Capcom bag given out at the AOU 1999 show with the same print on:

 

Her hand is massive.

[new666uk]

Some impressive setups (and collections) but how many of you have managed to get your collection into the living room? Currently connected to the LR telly I have: x360, PS2, NES, SNES, Wii, Megadrive and a PC (mostly for home theatre than emu). The N64 is sat in a box feeling slightly underused.

 

Front room (how posh are we having two receptions!) has an arcade cab with about 40 pcb's, a fruit machine,  a gaming PC, Atari ST, Spectrum +2 and C64. The Amiga's are back in the loft where they belong (I'm going to get letters about that...!)

 

SHMBO isn't necessarily a gamer but is 'relaxed' about my habit. Don't think I've missed anything other than a PSP but as the battery has popped again I don't use it.

[Droo]

13 minutes ago, new666uk said:

Some impressive setups (and collections) but how many of you have managed to get your collection into the living room? Currently connected to the LR telly I have: x360, PS2, NES, SNES, Wii, Megadrive and a PC (mostly for home theatre than emu). The N64 is sat in a box feeling slightly underused.

 

Front room (how posh are we having two receptions!) has an arcade cab with about 40 pcb's, a fruit machine,  a gaming PC, Atari ST, Spectrum +2 and C64. The Amiga's are back in the loft where they belong (I'm going to get letters about that...!)

 

SHMBO isn't necessarily a gamer but is 'relaxed' about my habit. Don't think I've missed anything other than a PSP but as the battery has popped again I don't use it.

 

Do you have kids?

[new666uk]

Have kids? I am the kids

[ScouserInExile]

Only an Xbox One under the telly in the "grown up" lounge. There's an unspoken "one console" rule for our lounge. The kids lounge has a - modded and loaded with emulators -Wii. Everything else lives in my office. 

[nakamura]

I made a video of my setup a while back! Don't laugh too much. 

 

 

[Goose]

Worked on this for a few weeks and finished it back in late July. It was a spare room/dressing room in our house. Managed to empty it and redistribute the furniture around the house. I ended up buying an extra shelving kit so I could divide the cubes up a bit more. The TV is an old Sony one, but it's excellent as it has 4 HDMI, and about 10 other types of connections. The little white door hides all the plugs and the two pull out draws hold all the controllers and 2600 games.

 

 

 

[Parappa]

Did this come like this or do Ikea do some sort of splitter?

 

[ilpostino]

3 hours ago, Parappa said:

Did this come like this or do Ikea do some sort of splitter?

 

https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/kallax-insert-with-1-shelf-white-20423720/

 

They make a shelf to split it in half, maybe he got two and cut a notch in?

[Parappa]

2 hours ago, ilpostino said:

 

https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/kallax-insert-with-1-shelf-white-20423720/

 

They make a shelf to split it in half, maybe he got two and cut a notch in?

Ah nice- thanks.  Perfect for the mini's!

[Goose]

It's two shelf pieces with a notch cut into them - the place I got it from does a number of 'inserts' and this was on of them - came with notches pre-cut. The door was another, it was a kit that came with the door, hinges etc, and you got a template to know where to drill for the hinge fixings etc. 

 

They actually didn't make normal shelves on their own, so to divide two of the shelves up to better use the space, I bought another of the 4 - shelf splitters, and put one piece into each square I wanted to split, then just fixed in place with angle brackets. You can't see the notch in the picture thanks to the console covering it. Same with the PS2/PS3 shelf. 

 

As above, IKEA do something similar I imagine, but this was from Bunnings in Australia. 

 

[The Evener]

I love looking at these game rooms, so much variety and awesomeness combined into a single thread! 

 

I started collected consoles in the late 1980s and through the 90s. Around 2010, I was made aware that a person could purchase classic arcade games, so I branched out in that direction as well. The "sanctioned space" for gaming is one of the finished basement rooms that has groovy carpet. Looking back at early photos, I can see now that the room now is a tad on the crammed and cluttered side, but that has also served as a natural brake since I'm physically at the max so if I wanted to add anything else I'd have to sell and move something out. You can't see it in the photo but I also have a Coleco Adam 8-bit computer crammed into a corner so I can call/telnet BBSes.

 

 

 

[Couch Corpse]

38 minutes ago, The Evener said:

 

 

What is the yellow one with the red button, I recall spending hours on that.

[The Evener]

1 hour ago, Couch Corpse said:

What is the yellow one with the red button, I recall spending hours on that.

 

I'm not sure if it was marketed under a different label in the UK, but in Canada/US it was called the Cosmic 1000 Fire Away from Tandy. I loved this game - great action, and it was a nice backlit game and you could play it long after everyone else went to bed.

 

[Rob G]

I’ll put this here as it’s more retro than modern. 
 

A few bits of kit that may or may not be seen:

• Saturn with ODE (Rhea I think)
• Ultra HDMI modded N64 with Everdrive 64 v2.5
• HDMI modded Dreamcast with clone GDEMU
• Analogue Super NT
• Analogue Sega SG
• PS1 with PSIO pending install
• Phat UK launch PS3 
• OSSC
• Generic HDMI switch

Aside from gaming, the AV side comprises

• 77” C8 Oled tv
• Kii Three Speakers 
• Roon audio server for music playback

I play around 0.5 hrs per week on the consoles - they’re mainly for show unfortunately.

[Nathan Wind]

Approved.

 

You may continue.

[Quest]

Evener's mad basement is fantastic.

[R0b]

Wtf @nakamura. Why is that WiiU still shrinkwrapped?

[nakamura]

4 minutes ago, Rob Rule said:

Wtf @nakamura. Why is that WiiU still shrinkwrapped?

It's not. Just forget to take the bit off the front.