More progress of the house. As before, since this is a game-room specific thread, I will refrain from spamming with home photos. Here is where the soon to be finished basement is as of today:

In this picture, I am standing where my drumset will be. This is a straight on shot viewing the entire finished area of the basement. Pool table will go to the left of the foot of the stairs (if you are standing on the stairs, THAT left).

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Another angle of the same thing.
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The area where JM, BSD, and ACDC LED Pro will go. A 4th game will follow. That will pretty much be the cut-off for me.
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Shot of what will be the media room. I am working on what to do in here. Maybe a big screen LCD on the wall with all my 90's consoles (3DO, CD-i, etc) in a media center and a wireless surround sound system for movies/games/some sports parties. We'll see.
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Up close shot of the media room.
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Standing in the media room doorway looking back at the basement. Directly in front of this shot is where the Valley coin-operated pool table will be.
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And finally, another shot of where my pins will reside.
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And for those of you wondering, here is where the progress of the home's exterior is currently:

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Yep, it's a 3 car garage. One stall for my wife's 2006 Mustang, one for my 2012 fully electric, zero gas used Nissan LEAF, and one for the Turbo VR6 engine DeLorean.

Gee that looks nice. To bad ya don't have a flat driveway, nothin like washin the car on a flat driveway.

Nice...we've built two houses and Designing a game room from scratch in a custom finished basement is quite exciting.

More work has been done to the new home and the basement. As usual, I'll keep it to just the gameroom/basement:

Drywall now up in the media room.
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Standing in the media room, facing the rest of the basement.
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Drywall up in the area for where the pins will go.
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Shot of the rest of the basement. This would be if you were standing with your back facing the pins.
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Here is a shot of the exterior of the home as of Saturday. More brick has been put up now. Siding will start going on later this week.
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We plan to close 8-9 Oct with a tentative move-in date of 12 Oct. I'll be moving the pins myself if you're wondering.

Still need about 8 pins, 2 hydro thunders, and the big ball bowler - but getting there!

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Not sure if this is your first new house or not, but if you can...I strongly encourage you to paint all the rooms before you move in if the builder isn't doing final paint colors for you.

Makes the job a lot easier.

Actually, when we did the basement a few years later I did the final painting before our contractor put down the carpet.

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Nice rush games. Could you take another pic?

Yep, my wife and I were just talking about this today. We do plan to paint before the pool table comes in. The pins can be scooted away from the wall and covered in tarps, so yeah, painting will definitely occur early. Thanks for the looking out!

Good plan, I had the luxury of a few weeks to paint the house and I needed most of it.

Try to get the pool table light up before putting in the table if you can. I had to hang around it which wasn't easy.

More looking out on your part. Thanks ! We have like - I think - eleven lamps in the basement ceiling, so putting in a pool lamp would have cast a shadow on the table. So we opted no pool lamp, which is a crying shame cause I really wanted one, but when you have 11 lamps in the ceiling (don't quote me, I think it is 11), hey - that's enough .

Do you mean recessed pot lights in the ceiling? We put in eighteen, six per 'zone' plus one each at the top and bottom of the stairs. The ones around the pool table go around the perimeter, but the dedicated three bulb light that hangs over the table is very important for proper lighting. If it's not too late I'd consider adding a flush lighting receptacle to mount a light later. We also put the pot lights on dimmer switches. My pics are a page or two up from this post.

Where did you find those quarter floor mats? Those things are so cool. I tried Google and couldn't find them.

If it's not too late I would add more electrical outlets where your pins are going.

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I would hate to be your backyard neighbor lol. Talk about blocking out the sun! Ouch!

Moved all of my machines to their new room. Now I just have to started on lighting and wall art.

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I appreciate all of the thumbs up. All of these machines have been fully restored by me. Regrained all of the SS, the coin doors look brand new. The Big Deal and Strato have repainted cabinets, other two, just touch ups. All of the heads have been repainted. I love Williams 70's EM's, as you can see. Have room for only two more, a Grand Prix and undecided. I have a dozen EM and early SS playfield's that I plan to spruce up and put on the walls and ceiling. I also have 6 mint 50's Bingo backglasses that I may add. I painted the walls and ceiling a midnight blue. My wife at first freaked out when I painted the ceiling, but when she saw it with the machines, she understood and said it looked great.

Game room pins will be re-located in the new project, sometime around early November. Line-up of the pins:
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These will be spread out and integrated in the new room. Old house slot room:
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Those are interesting chairs. Looks like something you would see in the waiting room of a doctor's office.

Just sold my SM so I'm down to 7 for the moment as I ponder what to buy next.

Here's the new lineup

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Sub under every pin.I run 2 pins on each sub.Works great.
How many times did you have to take the second pic.To get the photon laser lights perfect in the picture?.

Obviously a Space Odyssey. (and I have one that may be for sale coincidently)

A wall of games just is so beautiful

That dark blue wall really presents your games well.

Little bit picture heavy...I included some day light ones and ones with the games all lit up at night with the black lights on

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Nice line up....and carpet.

I can never justify the space for arcades over pins, but I respect those that do.

If I could find originals like you guys in the states get I would but here they are usually in generic cabs.

Love the bl carpet but it looks like you need more bl fixtures.

Well, I guess one machine still makes it a game room.

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For as much as these games cost you guys one DOES make a gameroom.

Man what a great lineup of games! A little vid heavy but you have great titles to justify the FUN!

Tried a couple of weeks ago and none of the pictures came through so I will try again one room at a time.First up is a random line up room including Pin-bot trilogy.IMAG0092.jpgIMAG0093.jpg

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Dude, I recently opened a new thread called "Threesome".... hehehe.... (https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/threesome)

Please, post your PIN-BOT Three.... logy pic there!!!!!

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that's pretty awesome

This was back in March but I've been culling the herd.
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Really enjoying what I have now and wondering what to add next.
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