Upon completing your basement remodel, or separate addition built, what was your first game set up? Longtime favorite, something that matched your basement theme?
Upon completing your basement remodel, or separate addition built, what was your first game set up? Longtime favorite, something that matched your basement theme?
For me there was a couple of different times. The first house we lived in I had a pool table and a dart board and then found a Harlem Globetrotters at a garage sale for $200, working. So that was the first one at that house. Five years later (or twenty years ago) we moved to our current house and the first game that came through the door was Gottlieb's Spiderman. I think Gilligan's Island was the first game I set up though since it was right there and quick and easy to do. I only set up certain games at first since I was doing ALOT of demo in the basement to make room for the games I already had and for more that would be coming in. I was setting up games like Gottlieb James Bond, Six Million Dollar Man, DE Playboy, Shadow.....basically something from all different manufacturers as well as different shapes and sizes so that I could get a feel for what games would go where. Mean while walls were coming down rather quickly. We moved during the day and then at night I'd take out another wall or two to open the basement up more. All of these pictures were taken in Jan./Feb. of 2000. I had 27 games when we moved into this house.
John
IMG_0008 (resized).JPGIMG_0009 (resized).JPGIMG_0010 (resized).JPGIMG_0011 (resized).JPGIMG_0013 (resized).JPGWhat a great space. How big is your gameroom John?
Quoted from Dayhuff:For me there was a couple of different times. The first house we lived in I had a pool table and a dart board and then found a Harlem Globetrotters at a garage sale for $200, working. So that was the first one at that house. Five years later (or twenty years ago) we moved to our current house and the first game that came through the door was Gottlieb's Spiderman. I think Gilligan's Island was the first game I set up though since it was right there and quick and easy to do. I only set up certain games at first since I was doing ALOT of demo in the basement to make room for the games I already had and for more that would be coming in. I was setting up games like Gottlieb James Bond, Six Million Dollar Man, DE Playboy, Shadow.....basically something from all different manufacturers as well as different shapes and sizes so that I could get a feel for what games would go where. Mean while walls were coming down rather quickly. We moved during the day and then at night I'd take out another wall or two to open the basement up more. All of these pictures were taken in Jan./Feb. of 2000. I had 27 games when we moved into this house.
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Quoted from jake35:What a great space. How big is your gameroom John?
Not as big as it used to be......LOL. Basement is 70 x 28.
John
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