How do you power on (and off) your games?

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I see some really nice looking arcades here from 2 to 20 or more games. All seem to have their games nicely lined up in rows. Since so many of these classic games have power button on the lower back? How do you turn your arcades on and off?

I have two rows of three games each with an awkwardly placed Power strip/surge behind each row. Its not ideal.
 
I have a 6-ft surge protector behind the games, plugged into an outlet controlled by the light switch. Flip the switch and 8 games come on...
 
I try to use the game's on/off switch if it's easily accessible, but those Atari cabs especially are impossible for reaching the switch if they are against a wall. In those cases I just leave the game's switch on and plug in as needed. None of my games stay plugged into any outlets unless they are on.
 
As many as will reach a surge protector, on that one, and turned on together.. usually 3 at a time. Surge protector between 2 of the games, not too bad to reach..
 
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I have all my games hooked to surge potectors and the proctectors are plugged into a remote control switch. One press of the button and everything is on.
 
I use a couple of these (4 games on each side of the room):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002DNUY8/ref=oss_product

There's also an 8-outlet version.

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Do a search on the Belkin Conserve. I have posted about it before. Basically power strips with built-in surge protection and remote controls.
 
Remote power outlets. Got them at Lowe's for $10 for a pack with three outlets and one remote with 3 on/off buttons. THEY ROCK. I put about 3 games on each outlet, so $20 was enough for all my games (about a dozen). Best $20 I ever spent on my gameroom!!!! Basically I use one remote in each of the two rooms.

Wade
 
i hard wired outlet wall strips to wall switches (non corded real strips like this)
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I will never ever go back to powering each game manually or with surge protectors I still have some in one part of the room but there conected to the wall strips so again, flip one wall swith every few secs, within 10 seconds( or faster if im in a hurry) theyre all up and running. Lighting is also on switches in a row above. half blacklight, half regular.. so when i party bl is on, when i actually need to see to clean/repair stuff, i can turn on regular lights.. my lights old office salvage and are 4 bulb 4 foot floursecents with 2 ballasts each, hence why i was able to do the lighting the way i wanted. best part was the lights were free all i had to do was buy bulbs!
 
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Seems like every time I switch on more than one simultaneously (my Defender plus something else), something dies in the Defender. I've resorted to the switch-per-machine thing I've mentioned above as a workaround. :)
 
When I built my game room I put in two dedicated 20amp circuits. Half of the room has outlets on one breaker and the other half on another. I have two 20 amp wall switches so I turn on one then the other. Each outlet also has a power strip with a surge protector plugged into it.
 
I do like GaryMcT does... But with an older power switch thing that used to be connected to every oldschool desktop computer BITD... :D I really like being able to turn on individual games, and/or games on one at a time. Here's a pic:

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And. I would really, really, really, really, really like to know what these are called! I tried finding one on eBay with no luck, then no luck on Google. I need someone to help me remember the names of these damn things! Modessit? :D
 

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