Does anyone else here do this, or am I just weird?

[Wundercade]

I know my gameroom is no where as nice as some peoples here, and not everyone would like my game selection. But I catch myself more recently just going downstairs to the gameroom and just looking around. Not even playing anything, just looking at the collection. Sometimes I even cut the games on just to look at them all on. I know if my wife caught me doing it, I would just get alot of weird looks.

I still need to do some painting and new carpet at one point, but I have everything spaced out where you can see art and looks nice (to me at least)

We had our babyshower at the house yesterday. I got stuck babysitting and had all the kids in the basement. it was fun watching them all run around and play games. They mainly wanted to play the crane machine the most.

That, my friend, is called "pleasant disbelief". You just can't get over that they're yours and they're sitting right there in your home.

 

[ParrotHead]

That, my friend, is called "pleasant disbelief". You just can't get over that they're yours and they're sitting right there in your home.

+1 - Yep, I guess that about sums it up for me.

 

[jawhn]

... What I miss in part is the ambiance of hearing a bunch of the classics being played, the din around the arcade as you're walking through it and all the familiar noises are bouncing around you in space. That's a difficult thing to come by nowadays, until you host an arcade party

I have a happy, happy answer for you.

"Arcade Ambience" MP3s by Andy Hofle. Check his site:

http://arcade.hofle.com/

He has MP3s he made of "Arcade Sounds" from different years. They are like hour-long MP3s of various, random arcade games being played. I have all 4 files and play them whenever I have people over, sometimes even when I'm playing by myself.

If you're not rockin a MAME setup, just grab the .MP3 and make a normal music CD of it and play it in a boombox or whatever.

If it's news to you, you're welcome. If you already knew... Meh. People need to know.

And yes, I have stared at my games in awe many times, for much too long. It is the nostalgia. I spent most of my childhood/teenage years at arcades.

 

[Dr. Morbis]

^ Hey thanks a lot, I didn't even know about them