Introducing my super personal video arcade center!!!!!

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Introducing my super personal video arcade center!!!!!

As some of you may know , I took a break from arcade collecting to do some console collecting. what I have assembled here is my what's what of the must have consoles of the golden age of home gaming systems. What you are looking at is a vectrex arcade system, sears tele games edition atari 2600, tele games personal arcade system (also known as the dina 2 in 1. It plays colecovision and sega SG 1000 games )an intellivision system with an intellivoice module, colecovision system, and last but not least, a sears edition super video arcade (intellivision). all have original boxes and all work! Thought I would share what a blast putting this small collection together over the last few months. As always your comments and thoughts are welcome!
 

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I found these two wooden "cube" shelves at Ikea... I don't see them on their site right now... Anyway, they have casters on the bottom. I only put one set of casters on one of the shelves, put the other shelf on top of that, used some "mending plates" to screw them together (on the back, out of sight). I also mounted a power strip at the center of the newly created 4-shelf rack. TV goes on top, tons of space for consoles.

It's an awesome setup, cost around $40 total... Looks very similar to your configuration!
 
You could probably do a tube swap with that TV! :D
Nice collection though!
 
You could probably do a tube swap with that TV! :D
Nice collection though!

Nah, it's a Sony. In my experience (and from what I've heard on KLOV), they hardly ever work for a tube swap. :)

I have wondered if I could offer the 20" Sonys and other "flatter screen" newer models as trade to people for their 19" TVs... I always seem to find the stuff that won't work at the thrift shops. LOL
 
Nah, it's a Sony. In my experience (and from what I've heard on KLOV), they hardly ever work for a tube swap. :)

I have wondered if I could offer the 20" Sonys and other "flatter screen" newer models as trade to people for their 19" TVs... I always seem to find the stuff that won't work at the thrift shops. LOL

I tube swapped a Trinitron in to a 29" Medium Res chassis. It works... but still needs some work... the horizontal hold is on a hair trigger as is the vertical hold.
 
That's a nice bit of console nostalgia you have. As much as arcades are near and dear to my heart, console collecting is not far behind, and in some ways surpasses arcades, as they're usually much more affordable and take up less space.

Woodgrain TVs are the bomb, no matter what people say. :D
 
Nice, but be careful... This aspect of the hobby can spiral out of control just as badly as the arcade stuff. ;)

My buddy is full-on psychotic for consoles. I think he has everything... From the triangular shaped Telstar units, to the RCA Studio 2 right on up to the Nintendo 64 which is where he currently draws the line on "classic". He has separate boxed versions of all the different NES and SNES versions with the different pack-ins, all the variants of the Super Scope.

In a way its worse than arcade collecting because there is so much more, and some of the sealed NIB stuff is unusable without killing the value. I just can't grasp the fun in the sealed (or foreign language) stuff and break his balls about it. His summers are consumed with finding deals at yard sales. He knows the values of everything and buys the rare stuff cheap to sell to fuel the expensive stuff. Works well if you don't put a value on your time!
 
I've just started playing around with my old console collection. Really fun stuff even after collecting arcade games. I've been getting some NES stuff lately. I mostly collected Colecovision/Atari era stuff. I'm not a big fan of a lot of the NES or SNES game styles, but there are several great games for both systems.

I would really like to set up this type of a station to play them.
 
I've just started playing around with my old console collection. Really fun stuff even after collecting arcade games. I've been getting some NES stuff lately. I mostly collected Colecovision/Atari era stuff. I'm not a big fan of a lot of the NES or SNES game styles, but there are several great games for both systems.

I would really like to set up this type of a station to play them.

I have "rigs" set up for different systems. Ones that only play games that take and RF modulator are one one rig, 27" composite TV for the middle generation rig, and a 37" HD rig for the newer stuff. Sometimes I run stuff on the upstairs 32" HDTV as well. And I have general TVs and monitors around to take care of everything else.
 
Thanks everyone. The reason the colecovision is behind the doors is There was no other place for it. I can also see how this console stuff could get out of control. I see slot of collectors who are only interested in sealed boxes. Not me , I collect them to play them!
I forgot how much fun these consoles could be!
 
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