My game room is actually a building with 2 floors. So now that the carpet is installed the next step is SIGNS! With the help of people in my local collector group I've been working on names for the building itself (possibly a sign outside the door), the downstairs room, and the upstairs room (I'm thinking a sign in the stairway with an arrow pointing up).
Problem is coming up with the upstairs name. I just haven't found the "perfect" name yet. The building is going to be called "game galaxy" and the downstairs is going to be called "pixel planet". Ultimately downstairs will be vids only.
Upstairs is the problem. It will have my pin, my ICB, air hockey, skee ball (when I can find one), apple iie, atari 2600, big screen tv, and couch. Plus there is a mini-fridge, sink, and counter up there.
As you might have noticed, I'm going for 2 word names where each word starts with the same letter using the form "(descriptive noun) (space word)". It can vary from that if the name is otherwise awesome but I prefer that it doesn't. It would be nice if the descriptive noun implies something about the purpose of the room, even if it's vague and even if a couple of the items in the room don't particularly fit the name. So words like games, fun, leisure, amusement, relaxation, recreation, coin work (though coin is less ideal since only about half of the stuff is coin op). I would also prefer that the space name come second and be a noun (place).
I've looked at a lot of space words and the 2 that I really like are cosmos and universe. Others that I've given some thought to include asteroid, meteor, moon, orbit, satellite, station, surface, wormhole. I won't rule those out but at this point they don't seem as fitting as cosmos or universe to me.
So can anyone think of the perfect "c" word to go with "cosmos" or "u" word to go with "universe"? The current leading candidates are "cosmic coin" (not the right word order but it flows better than "coin cosmos"), "cosmic cove" (again not the right word order but otherwise not bad), and "lunar landing" (wrong word order and not particularly descriptive but otherwise not bad). All have knocks against them and therefore while I like them, none seem perfect to me like the names "game galaxy" and "pixel planet" are.
Oh, and if you have ideas on who could make my signs (which I want to have some kind of lighting but will be small and relatively simple), let me know. IvanTT was the obvious answer but he seems not to be interested in making signs for people here lately.
Here are pics of the building and rooms if that helps (2 pics of the downstairs from different angles)...
Problem is coming up with the upstairs name. I just haven't found the "perfect" name yet. The building is going to be called "game galaxy" and the downstairs is going to be called "pixel planet". Ultimately downstairs will be vids only.
Upstairs is the problem. It will have my pin, my ICB, air hockey, skee ball (when I can find one), apple iie, atari 2600, big screen tv, and couch. Plus there is a mini-fridge, sink, and counter up there.
As you might have noticed, I'm going for 2 word names where each word starts with the same letter using the form "(descriptive noun) (space word)". It can vary from that if the name is otherwise awesome but I prefer that it doesn't. It would be nice if the descriptive noun implies something about the purpose of the room, even if it's vague and even if a couple of the items in the room don't particularly fit the name. So words like games, fun, leisure, amusement, relaxation, recreation, coin work (though coin is less ideal since only about half of the stuff is coin op). I would also prefer that the space name come second and be a noun (place).
I've looked at a lot of space words and the 2 that I really like are cosmos and universe. Others that I've given some thought to include asteroid, meteor, moon, orbit, satellite, station, surface, wormhole. I won't rule those out but at this point they don't seem as fitting as cosmos or universe to me.
So can anyone think of the perfect "c" word to go with "cosmos" or "u" word to go with "universe"? The current leading candidates are "cosmic coin" (not the right word order but it flows better than "coin cosmos"), "cosmic cove" (again not the right word order but otherwise not bad), and "lunar landing" (wrong word order and not particularly descriptive but otherwise not bad). All have knocks against them and therefore while I like them, none seem perfect to me like the names "game galaxy" and "pixel planet" are.
Oh, and if you have ideas on who could make my signs (which I want to have some kind of lighting but will be small and relatively simple), let me know. IvanTT was the obvious answer but he seems not to be interested in making signs for people here lately.
Here are pics of the building and rooms if that helps (2 pics of the downstairs from different angles)...


