Well, its been about a year since I posted pix of my games at the old place we were renting. Last October, we finally scraped enough together to buy a house. For the record, being an addict in this hobby really made saving difficult...it seems we're always payday to payday
Our new place is nicer, but there are alot of improvements we'd like to make. I'd resigned myself to shoving my games into storage and forgetting about them for a few years while we focused on other things, but my wife wouldn't have it. She urged me to fix the Garage and I didn't need much convincing, heh. Its been a 9 month renovation thats been hampered by a hectic 80-100 hour a week work schedule this year, that finally eased up a couple weeks ago.
The renovation consisted of tearing out the old drywall and cabinets, replacing termite damaged wood, insulating, drywall and paint, epoxy coating the floor, a garage expansion from 2 car to a suedo 3 car + storage, upgrading to a 225v main + 125v subpanel for the garage so all the games could be powered at once, installing recessed lighting and replacing the entire electrical system to include enough wall outlets and circuits to allow for multiple configurations, stucco work and redoing the roof which also serves as a deck and my good friend Xray2's favorite upgrade: a 36,000 btu AC wall unit.
Well without further ado, here is a progress update and photo tour of my Garcade, I apologize for the lack of decorations, neon signs, scoreboard and blacklight carpeting.. my space is abit bland and sterile, but these are things I'd like to pursue somewhere down the road. It may be awhile though, especially the carpet, unless another SoCal klover that would like to split an order
There are currently 33 games in the garage. All work 100% except for the (2) Spacelords and Bank Panic which are my current project cabs. Hopefully I can get them working 100% within the next month or so. Please enjoy and thanks for looking, this is my way of coping with another year of missing out on CAX 
Tom
Our new place is nicer, but there are alot of improvements we'd like to make. I'd resigned myself to shoving my games into storage and forgetting about them for a few years while we focused on other things, but my wife wouldn't have it. She urged me to fix the Garage and I didn't need much convincing, heh. Its been a 9 month renovation thats been hampered by a hectic 80-100 hour a week work schedule this year, that finally eased up a couple weeks ago.
The renovation consisted of tearing out the old drywall and cabinets, replacing termite damaged wood, insulating, drywall and paint, epoxy coating the floor, a garage expansion from 2 car to a suedo 3 car + storage, upgrading to a 225v main + 125v subpanel for the garage so all the games could be powered at once, installing recessed lighting and replacing the entire electrical system to include enough wall outlets and circuits to allow for multiple configurations, stucco work and redoing the roof which also serves as a deck and my good friend Xray2's favorite upgrade: a 36,000 btu AC wall unit.
Well without further ado, here is a progress update and photo tour of my Garcade, I apologize for the lack of decorations, neon signs, scoreboard and blacklight carpeting.. my space is abit bland and sterile, but these are things I'd like to pursue somewhere down the road. It may be awhile though, especially the carpet, unless another SoCal klover that would like to split an order
Tom
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