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Figured I'd start an actual thread for some of the stuff we've got going on in here. I post in the lit-up thread enough as it is...
My wife and I got into collecting together, a few years ago, when we moved in together. I hadn't been collecting prior. I had a MKII machine and a Jukebox from when I was a kid, but I had never considered the "collecting" aspect, until my wife and I had them in a room with the pool table and thought "wait, there's some empty space here, how about another game or two?"
Knowing nothing, we picked up a dead Tempest. It took us 9 months to get that thing working...

Naturally, it has all ballooned completely out of control from there. One machine became two. Two became four.. And so on. Mostly projects, some total de-conversions, all brought back to life thanks to the great knowledgebase of KLOV.

In our new house, we have four rooms dedicated to the arcade, all linked together.

The first room houses mostly 80s and 90s raster games. The only exceptions are Space Invaders and Space Duel (but only because some weird magnetic anomaly prevents us from putting it in the vector room). This is definitely the largest game room, and it is dominated by the presence of the 6P X-Men machine.
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The second room is the "vector room." As with the first room, there are a couple exceptions - namely Firefox and Ms. Pacman are in there, because there just wasn't enough room in the cocktail area.
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The third room is the smallest - the cocktail area. What mixes better? Cocktail machines and a wet bar? I'd like to build a bench into the wall behind the machines and eliminate that bookshelf, replacing it with floating shelves.
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The fourth and final room is the pool room. It's more of the "quiet space" if the arcade is too loud and obnoxious. No neon, no blacklights. There is a full kitchen, but it came like that. Not really sure how to progress the decor of the room from here. Excuse the dog photobombing...
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Everything in the arcade, all the games, all the lights, various bits of decor, are controlled through home assistant, which is an absolute godsend for powering everything up for a party (and for maintenance). We've got a video about it on our Youtube Channel as well! And we'll probably post videos in this thread as we do them.
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