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uhhhh ... that glowing doorway ... how u do that?

(seriously though, if there's a how-to online you used, please let me know. that is super rad)

So many GREAT features in your arcade space....and like everyone else I love the 'G08 Repair Kit'! Your bar area if off the charts as well. So much attention to detail which is to me what makes a home arcade space FUN!

I always love to see the various forms of creativity on display in a home arcade - INSPIRING!!!

My glowing doorways and glowing drink coasters after all these years still make me smile.....

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I think the idea was entirely hers. We have a friend who's a carpenter and it appeared on Christmas day as a complete amazing surprise.



Again, thank you for the kind words guys. The bar did not wind up that expensive. We had it built with essentially 3 layers. The bottom we did with LED ribbon ourselves. We put translucent plexi sl elevated over that and arranged the various marquees on it, then glass above. The edges of the bar are tiered to support each level. We used cork standoffs to help support the translucent plexi with the marquees atop.

Doc

Nice room dude!

Where did you get that carpet?
 
The fire extinguisher - AWESOME idea.. I may have to do the same, but call it vector or monitor repair.

Love the Pac shot glass thing. Really slick idea and looks great. What a conversation piece...
 
My glowing doorways and glowing drink coasters after all these years still make me smile.....

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Dude..... that looks like a force field doorway like you see in Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, and Star Trek(all original series, btw, though ST:TNG used them as well).

It's pretty bad ass, but you should add a "keycard" that shuts them off for when people want to enter. :D

(reference the Battlestar Galactica episode "Experiment in Terra")
 
uhhhh ... that glowing doorway ... how u do that?

(seriously though, if there's a how-to online you used, please let me know. that is super rad)

Built from scratch....my own design. I did two of them controlled by a wall keypad. Of course...I was nervous to walk through them for the first time and potentially get teleported to another dimension. I sent my wife through first just to be safe! LOL...

More can be seen here:

http://www.tranquilitybasearcade.com/arcade.html

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Love that marque bar top and the glowing doorways!

I used the strip LEDs around the top of my garage. I also toss stuff I like from my childhood etc on my jukebox wall.
 

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I absolutely LOVE the Pepsi machine. I remember them well from BITD. So hard to believe that is actually your GARAGE! Difficult to visualize a large garage door in the mix. Love the wall texture and ceiling architecture to mix things up. Great selection of games in there as well including Williams Space Mission pinball! AWESOME....
 
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You know, seeing these custom entrances makes me want to do one, too. Of course, in THIS house, it wouldn't work(dining room arcade, you know)...

But, in the next house we get.........

I'd have to have someone do the work, of course.... I can't do that kind of shit anymore... but shit, I've got an idea....

A "TARDIS" entryway. So it looks like Dr. Who landed his time machine there, and that's the entry into the arcade area. Be kinda cool, eh?
 
I absolutely LOVE the Pepsi machine. I remember them well from BITD. So hard to believe that is actually your GARAGE! Difficult to visualize a large garage door in the mix. Love the wall texture and ceiling architecture to mix things up. Great selection of games in there as well including Williams Space Mission pinball! AWESOME....

Thanks. The ceiling architecture was basically a framework I built to allow my large door to still function. The frame just clears the door tracks and the door opener, and is fully insulated. Entire garage started insulated and I built a second insulted wall inside that so I can rip the arcade out and toss it in a dumpster if we ever need to move. It's cold up here so I wanted to make sure I kept my large door access but could keep the space warm without spending a small fortune.
 

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Your garagecade reminds me of the Hong Kong 'bunker clubs' & big city 'pop-up diners'.
You are only one online rumor away from being featured in the NY Times as "Calgary's best hidden vintage retro thingamajig", my friend...

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/fashion/pop-up-clubs-in-secret-spaces-party-by-night.html


Thanks. The ceiling architecture was basically a framework I built to allow my large door to still function. The frame just clears the door tracks and the door opener, and is fully insulated. Entire garage started insulated and I built a second insulted wall inside that so I can rip the arcade out and toss it in a dumpster if we ever need to move. It's cold up here so I wanted to make sure I kept my large door access but could keep the space warm without spending a small fortune.

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Built from scratch....my own design. I did two of them controlled by a wall keypad. Of course...I was nervous to walk through them for the first time and potentially get teleported to another dimension. I sent my wife through first just to be safe! LOL...

More can be seen here:

http://www.tranquilitybasearcade.com/arcade.html

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The entire Tranquility Base arcade is awesome. I love the doors and the custom themed signs everywhere. We did a neon for Arkham Arkhade (Home of the Great Old Ones) but I love the NASA themed emblem. Those doors are amazing! I did see the link to how you did them. Did you modify the Orac lighting kit or use it straight out of the box?


Love that marque bar top and the glowing doorways!

I used the strip LEDs around the top of my garage. I also toss stuff I like from my childhood etc on my jukebox wall.

The lighting, again, adds alot to the look of the room. Very cool! Also love the DDII table and Pepsi machine. Is it stocked with NOS bottle stock? Either way, very cool.


As for the carpet, I will see if Margaret still has their info. It is one of the 2 or so large companies that still prints stock blacklight carpet. They print to order so it costs the same really if you do your own design. I originally had a multi-sprite design but it apparently violated like a hundred million copyrights so they wouldn't commercially print it. We had to put the current design together pretty quickly (a few days) or we'd have missed the print deadline/spot we had. I pilfered 9 of the arcade machine images from a T-shirt (Terminator/BTTF/Star Wars/Blade Runner/Akira/Metropolis/2001/TRON/Alien) and did a bunch more similarly themed (20,000 Leagues/Robby/B9/Godzilla/Star Trek/Dalek/Mutant fron This Island Earth/Huey,Dewey,Louie from Silent Running/8 bit Cthulhu, the mascot of Arkham Arkhade . . ). I have the design palette somewhere. There were several more we didn't get finished in time to incorporate.

Awesome stuff guys! Keep 'em coming!

Doc
 
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