Hello, i bought a new home and i created a 3D plan of my future game room.
I don't know yet the theme, i hesitate for a neon retro style like Tron, a steampunk style, or a classy elegant style with dark brown tones.
I also wanted to give a name to my game room, i know often Irish Pubs have very funny and nice names, i need to ponder what name i will give , so i will order a big neon to put in the wall opposite to the one where there is my Kat Walk C2 ( that round thing on the floor between the bar and the arcade ), so feel free to give me ideas.

The Darts will be a Vdarts4, that red slot machine it will be a Paschislo machine , a Saint Seya that i already have, and what is next to it is a Kat Walk C2 that is powered by my MAME arcade that have a good PC that handle the VR.
No, i will not have 9 Game of Thrones pinball machines, it was just the 3D file i found.
For now i have 9 pinball ( Sorcerer, STNG, Indy, Judge Dredd, World Cup 94, TOTAN, LOTR, Iron Maiden Premium, Godzilla Premium , but i plan to put 14 pinball machines maximum. The room have the capacity to put 18 in total if i take off the arcade machine, bar, and Kat Walk C2.

Here's the video of the project, i will be updating, firstly i need to have the keys of this new home i bought, and in some months i will start the renovation works, only then will be in a decent way to show you the final result
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Cheers!

You know, not every pinball machine plays the same way!

Indeed, is a bit thight the space, but if my calculations are correct I can take the glass off correctly, but if I need to remove and and add new flipper, I need indeed so make space and put the other pinball machines in a 45 degrees angle. The room makes 14 x 32 feet ( 4x10 meters) . It's a bit thight but I think I can do it, in worst of cases, rotate in 45 degrees angle indeed

Indeed, it looks great. Am searching a bit to see some ideas I aslo thought of creating a star gate portal in the wall, but would be partially hidden by the pinball machines, would be a shame.

I verified the size of the room , it's exactly 4,10 m , ( 13,45 feet ), i think i will pass staying straight, if not, i just imagined a "solution":
Put a STOOL under the front part of the pinball in a way to lift the legs, so the angle of the glass will be higher than the pinball machine in front of it.
I know, it's clumsy, but can be also a solution.

I mesured the distance from the wall to the front of the flippers like bally / williams is around 1m38 and the new stern 1,42 , and as there is a inclination while the glass slides, the glass will not touch the plunger of the pinball in front of it.
I want to have the new stern in only one side, and the old in another side, so it will always be 138cm + 142cm + 110cm for the glass am at 390cm ( 12.8ft ) and the room makes 410cm ( 13.4ft ), still have 20cm gap! I imagine i need to stay on the side while sliding the glass in and out, but i think it's possible to do, but thanks for pointing that out, i had calculated that some weeks ago when i went visit the house and at the time i had calculated the minimum size to have two pinball machines facing each other, but when you wrote you made me doubt a bit

Sure, it would be problematic indeed, but... desperate times ask for desperate techniques!
But... that would be in case of having it full of pinball machines and no free space, having free space is easy to turn 3 ou 4 at angle and take it off.
But, yes, one of the conditions to buy the house it was of having space to put at least 12 pinball machines

Seems a very good one!
Can we play with some of those machines?!

Hahahahahaahahah indeed!

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... and after 3 months, i finally got the keys and finally started the project!
Today i started to take off the ceiling and all the stuff that is in the room, also broke a fake wall.
Tomorrow i will start to take off the rest of the ceiling ,take off the furniture that the previews owners left inside, and then i will add just one dry wall without isolation on the ceiling, i will just isolate the walls and also the upper floor, so the ceiling can be a little higher. ( it will be 83.8 inches in total once finish ) Not very high , but is the best i can get.
I will update , since now it will progress fast.
I think in less than one month will be ok to put the pinball machines inside. And the floor i will do epoxy resin, but maybe not before April.

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Hello, yes, it's at the basement of my house, that's why the ceiling is so low.

Funny fact, I have a huge appartement and I could put more pinball machines in my actual gameroom but...
Am at the 3rd floor of a very ancient building, and I can't add more weight to the room ( well, i could, but can be risky), so I only have this pinball at home and the other 5 I bought in the last months are at home of different neighbours.
Can't wait to have all ten pinball machines together in only one place.
It's one of the reasons I bought the house and am selling my apartment/flat.

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Today i finished phase one! "Clean" all the walls ( on the photo there is the washbasin, but i already removed ), so i start the isolation of the game room and make new walls.
I will start that tomorrow. I also just used some rendering to test how the lights would look, and also the colors of the walls and ceiling, i think i will opt for a "caramel" color. Am going to sleep a bit and continue the works tomorrow.
Cheers.
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merci.
C'est une des raison pour la quelle j'ai acheté la maison.( Trop de bruit dans l'appartement, trop de poids sur le plancher , car j'etais au 3eme etage, plancher en bois, batiment de 1888 , et legerement un peu de bruit pour les voisins, et limité a 6 flippers, la je pourrais mettre 15, et.... j'ai encore une autre piece a coté au sous sol que je pourrais mettre encore 12 autres flippers si besoin... mais vu le prix des flippers... j'ai deja du mal a pouvoir acheter les 3 dans ma want list: Jurassic Park Premium, Hobbit, Alien )

Feel free to pass anytime you want.

it's in the old saucepan that we eat the best soups!
Old is always better!

The walls are perfectly dry, what you see on the walls is dirty, some oil because the old owner had some wierd stuff on the walls, and the white things you see is plaster used to hold the dry walls. Only in the second photo at top right there is a little inflitration, that i already fixed from the outside
all the basement ( this part of the gameroom included ) is underground, so from the outside i needed to dig a bit and fix it. The ancient owner drilled a hole to pass the phone cable and never sealed correctly...

So i started to make the ceiling, it's done ( except making the joints and painting of course ).
Now i will start the walls, add the electricity, isolation and..... I have a very small door at the center of the room, i will fill that wall, and cut a new wall on the concrete, i will add a iron bar for stability of the building, it's not a very important wall , it's not a outside wall, and that way i can use the room next to my game room to add a Snokker table and maybe some other stuff. For now that room is my cellar, it's just 66 inches high and the floor is just sand and stones, so i will need to dig a bit, maybe 15 inches deep, isolate everything, etc...
Well... it's time for me to eat some dust!
See you tomorrow!

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Took more time to make the sale papers and propriety papers ( 3 months, was quite long ), but now it will be fast, except the painting and the floor, that i will do later and continue to do the works in the rest of the home, since i just sold my apartment, and in end MAY i need to get out of the apartment/flat, so i need to do the construction works and all the dust before moving to the new house. But yes, it will go fast, this week i will finish the walls, maybe Wednesday night.

Little update, damn, am tired, after my "normal work" i also work until 1am on the gameroom every day.
Soo, the structures are almost ready to install the isolation, electricity and dry wall.
As there is some water tubes that pass in the game room i needed to protect them from condensation. Also added a air extractor.
As the game room is underground it's never warm in summer, just a bit cold in winter, so i will see , if needed i will add a small electric heater ( or even a dehumidifier if needed, but i don't think soo...)
This is the last time you will see my game room naked, tomorrow it will start to look like something.
Still need also to cut the new door and to fill the old one ( the small door on the left on the first photo ).
After am thinking to do a resin epoxy floor, in earth or copper tones, also the walls and ceiling am thinking to make it in caramel or dark copper tones.
And... believe me, i have a great surprise in mind, i know you will all love it. Stay tuned.
Cheers.

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And after pondering, i will use that small room on the left ( small door that right now is a empty room with some bottles of wine ) i will separate it in two, i will isolate all the walls and ceiling, to dig so i have around 7" height from ground to ceiling, and i will add a snooker table.
Here's a image of the gameroom. I have space to put a total of 16 pinball machines inside, so i think this room will be ok for the next 1 or 2 years
Maybe then i will need to change house, again!.

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i think it can fit around 5 or 6! hahahahahaha

Hahahahah Indeed, well, in the other one i could add 9, and in the main room i could add 19 in total for a total of 28....
The main problem would be the money to buy all those 19 that i don't yet have!
I bought 9 in one year and half, but will be complicated to buy all those 19 maybe 3 or 4 more.
Let's see

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New update, my pleasure room is starting to look like a room!
I spent the weekend changing the home electric switchboard, i bought a new one since the old one was with very old fuses, so i spent more than one day installing everything, and also found some minor problems due to the ancient installation, now everything is good, solid and ready to run.
Then i started to apply rockwool, and the drywall and starting to install the electric outlet, there will be in total 22 electrical outlets, i think it will be enough...
I still need to cut the wall to make the new door for the second room of the game room.
Tomorrow i think i will finish all the dry wall, then i will start to make the drywall joints and maybe open the new hole for the door.
Damn, am a bit tired, but excited to finish this step of the game room, once i finish i will stay maybe 2 months without doing new things, since i will start to do isolation on my cellar, and also in my house ground level to prepare for when i move from my old apartment to this new house, and for now i will leave my pinball machines in my apartment/flat. I also bought a Beer tower to add in my game room and i will buy a draft machine to make it functional and use it with nice Belgium beer like PAIX DIEUX, what do you think of this beer tower?
Cheers

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Hi! I will do a center line of almost all the size of the room with this kind of extra slim light lets, i will make a hole on the ceiling in a way that the light goes flat with the surface of the ceiling. this will be the main light, that i will dim a bit while playing , i will only turn bightness high when i need to do a repair or something.
Then i will also add strips of leds a bit all around to do ambient light and make it neon ambiance like.

The problem with those spots is it concentrate the light and make hard lights. It doesn't glare on your glass when you are playing? maybe as it's not on the top of the flippers will not glare?
You have a very nice collection btw!
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Indeed, it's always easier when we do it from scratch. I have a bit low ceiling , 2,15m / 7.05 Foot , so i need that flat led to make it nicer.
Indeed, i noticed that if the lights are directly on top of the pins will always glare, that's why i opt to put the light on the center.
It took me a while to find that Totan, i did more than 900 miles to get it two years ago.

Soo today am finishing the walls as ceiling, , then i will apply auto level concrete ( dunno the exact name in english ), and i will leave it like that.
Soo i think i will have my arcade room in stanby for some weeks until i continue to do other things, the painting and the floor.
I also start to see how i will do the bar and what to put there.
I made a 3D image of it.
I wish you all a good day, and you will see some more updates soon.

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Led strips are great! i will add some too in each corner of the wall to make some ambient light, leds are always cool!

Damn! i love your dog! Very cute! And that Hight Speed is on my list , i need to have one next to my Sorcerer!

I added on this software some months ago, i tried to find it agin, but i can't find.
But there is others, like this one
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/electronics/other/terminator-2-pinball-machine
But if you spend a bit you will find different models online, most of them you need to pay for it.

Sweet, indeed they use to give great names to pubs, i saw one one the name was "donkey color when it runs away" ?!
As i really love owls, i think i will call something with owl in the name!
I really need to start to make a list.

The first one of my ten pinball machines arrived to my new home's gameroom, still lot's of works to do, but, i already did a first game one it!
Well, i think he feels a bit alone there, i need to solve that problem!
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Well, still tons of work to do, but right now i can't do too much, i have too much work to do in my personal life.
But friday i will cut the new hole on the wall, i already bought two IPN steel to support the wall, i will just make a 32" wide door, so am using two 43" wide 4"X4" galvanized steel.
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Sooo why the door will not be taller? Well, in the other room the ceiling is way shorter, it's almost at the same level where i will put the steel bars.
I will dig the floor in the other side to make it 6,6 ft ( it's just sand floor, no concrete )

To create a door to pass from my game room to a second game room.

desperate times require desperate measures

( am not using water to not damage the dry walls next to the concrete wall , and i love dust, a beer taste way better after eating all this dust! ).
Don't try this at home!