Game Room lighting ideas for 24' x 30' area

Steverd

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I need some ideas for cool lighting in my game room. The area is 24' x 30'.
Sure I could do rope lighting, but anyone have any more original ideas?
Can you post a photo of your cool lighting. Laser lights? LEDs, anything cool/new other there?

Thanks,
Steve
 
I always thought it would be cool to have the metal cage lights around the room like the ones above the Ghostbusters ecto containment unit:

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Lighting is tricky. You don't want the glare on the games. I find this a bigger problem with the pinball machines than the videos, but either way it warrants consideration.

Whatever you decide, try to make sure you have the lights on a dimmer switch This will afford some flexibility between the times when you need to work on a game vs the times you want to actually play them.
 
Im interested in some ideas as well (not to hijack your post). I hope this drives some discussion on this idea and hopefully pictures of what others have done!
 
Sofetts and/or tray ceiling with indirect lighting for me. If I was trying to light an arcade room w/o doing a lot of remodeling, I'd probably use a smallish light bar behind each machine, LED or Flo., give a nice back lit glow to the room.
 
What color are the walls? Brightly colored walls will reflect a ton of light from the games themselves and I have found that I don't like any additional lighting with all of the games on.


If you have any pins you do not want a low light situation coupled with anything directly reflecting off of the glass on your pins. It makes the games very hard to play by creating blind spots. Even some vids can create problems if you aren't careful.

I have very few extra lights in my gamroom. I tried rope lights, blacklights, and even neon lighting but I found that I had to cut off neary every non-game light in the gameroom in order to play my games.
 
looks pretty bad ass, whats the mounting and distance requirements?

Claims to cover up to an area of 50' x 50'. But could find the mounting distance. I pretty sure I'll get one from Amazon and see how it looks. Pretty easy to return to Amazon if I don't like it.

Steve
 
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