Fitting Consoles in the Basement Arcade,

cool man! I have a projector in the basement for playing music videos or roku to play movies like special when lit.. but i also hooked up my nes and sega master system to it so when the mood hits people to play smb3, we fire it up! Its pretty cool playing on the big screen with the sound pumping through my stereo.
 
That's pretty sweet. I built a similar, stationary unit for my Vectrex. Building tables like this is pretty easy, and definitely rewarding. Great job and thanks for making the video.
 
Great job man! I have about 3 or 4 console stations, but yours put it all into one convenient and movable unit. Very nice!
 
That is a cool and convenient set up! I plan to make room for a display unit for Sega Genesis,Saturn,and one of those SNES Super System cabinets. If not one of them I'm just going to make a copy Nintendo cab again with SNES colors.
 
Great job man! I have about 3 or 4 console stations, but yours put it all into one convenient and movable unit. Very nice!



That is a cool and convenient set up! I plan to make room for a display unit for Sega Genesis,Saturn,and one of those SNES Super System cabinets. If not one of them I'm just going to make a copy Nintendo cab again with SNES colors.

Convenient is exactly what I was going for.
 
That's a great set-up. I also wanted to integrate cabs with consoles as well since like many KLOVers, I grew up with home systems and arcades.

It sounds like you also had your start with consoles; that was really my focus for the last 20+ years, going through high school and college -- hit the garage sales, thrift stores, and pawn shops.

The room for my gaming oasis is not very big -- a little over 8 feet by 12 feet -- and it includes a wide swath of gaming formats. My original vision was to create a representative collection of the gaming consoles, which focused primarily on 8-bit, and have it set up for play in a room. Even though we purchased our first home in 2004, storage issues prevented use of a basement room for fun. This changed with some furnace work about two years ago, and the room became available. I started off slowly, with a single table, monitor, and the Coleco ADAM, plus a few cartridges. Then last autumn I bought my first arcade game, and my collection was finally liberated from storage.

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There's a lot to squeeze in there, but I wanted to assemble a collection that touched upon all the classic gaming senses -- original handhelds, 8-bit consoles, games, and peripherals, and examples of each kind of arcade cab I encountered growing up (cocktail, full upright, cabaret). Although it's a bit dark, you'll see along the right side the Astro Blaster and some shelves housing cartridges; above them I set out original Coleco handheld arcade games; on the other side you'll see the remainder of the cabs and in the corner, my shelves housing the 8-bit collection. It's not as seamless as I imagined, but it's workable.

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I set out all the consoles on two book shelves that I had for years. Behind each console is their AC adapter. Basically, when I want to play a specific console, I swap out consoles so the "play unit" is to the left of the Commodore 1702 monitor; where possible, I simply use the RF cable that always remains attached to the VCR (which then routes to the monitor). A selection of games for each console are housed in the grey shelves along the right wall. The green bench is an old "mini tower" bookshelf set on its side; I attached some cushions where it counts, and wrapped/stapled it in an old green crib sheet. It's a bit of a tight fit in the corner, so I'm going to try and gain a few inches here and there by carefully pulling the cabs to the left, and getting them close enough that a piece of paper won't fit between them. But all in all, it's a tolerable seating solution for the family.
 
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combining basement arcades with console gaming

Kudos to both Tighe and Colecomeister, excellent setups in both cases!

My gaming setup is eventually going to be similar to this, but split into two rooms{and on separate levels of the house}.

The basement is primarily for the arcade, but there's a washer and dryer down there as well.

My console game/systems will share a room with my DVDs and VHS, the latter of which I have quite the collection of!
 
I have to re-organize all my console stuff, as it's strewn all over the place. The basement constantly changes, usually to make room for more arcade games, but I do have a room upstairs for the console spillover as well.
 
I have to re-organize all my console stuff, as it's strewn all over the place. The basement constantly changes, usually to make room for more arcade games, but I do have a room upstairs for the console spillover as well.

That is exactly why I made a table ruth casters. :)
 
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