Nothing too fancy here. Per the Gameroom treaty of 2016 with my wife I am not allowed to expand beyond the small carpeted area. So 3 arcade games are in the unfinished purgatory at the moment and will be sold. The giant multicade is going to be redone with just a 47" tv wall mounted and the control panel I built moved to just a pedestal to get rid of the NBA Jam cabinet it is in which takes up too much space. That should get me enough room to house six total Pins.

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I have rearranged so many times, thankfully the moving pads under the levelers makes it easy to push everything around.

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Still need to decorate. Although I recently added some stools. Much easier for my son and his friends to play now.

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There is so much more space but I am not allowed to enter the theater space or my sons play area which is huge on the other side
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I measured linear footage and if I could reclaim all the space other than the theater I have enough room for about 30 games give or take depending on cabinet variation. One day... One day.

I did bring home a Dutch re-import MSF today... Trying to Tetris some more space on my limited carpeted area.

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Hey guys looking for ideas to make the room less sterile. Beyond the pins, the walls are lifeless and I am really non-committal when it comes to artwork. Suggestions welcome.

I thought some faux brick wall panels behind the pins which they sell at home depot just to give the space some dimension. Those bar stools are wrapped around a giant 4 person Multicade.

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I am totally out of space. Time to start tetrising and maybe do some back to back games.

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Alright, the walls are still pretty bare but I have rearranged and hopefully this will be it for a while now!

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Ceiling speakers are part of the 7.2 channel audio for the theater. Not connected to anything else at this time.

Dug out some old marquees I had and found the Nintendo ones fit across my 2x2 ceiling lights. Now to find 6 more or it may be time to cut some others to fit.

Alternatively I could have some printed on 2x2 adhesive vinyl and apply that to the light lenses.

A little tough to photograph but you get the idea

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Is the concern glare or falling out? If glare I ultimately plan on relocating the lights. Prior to playing with the marquees I had cut window tint film and put it inside the light lenses to "dim" them which worked very well.

Damn it... you got me all insane about the glare, which did suck but was tolerable until you mentioned it, and I spent my breaks from coding today tearing apart my ceiling and rewiring! I made the biggest mess, and holy s@%t do I hate ceiling tiles, but got it all cleaned up before my wife got home.

The 3 cans above the games are now on a separate circuit and dimmable and connected to my Wink home automation now.

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Building an array of images that exist in posts in a topic would not be difficult on the PHP side of things, nor would building a simple responsive grid to display the images.

I sent Robin some code help to fix an issue with Facebook Open Graph data on Pinside Market ads, which he did say he would implement, although I do not know if it happened yet.

Maybe I will whip something up and send him a snippet to possibly create a topic image gallery view.

Also, no clue about the above Pin Rug, but I did come across this on eBay: ebay.com link: Bally Pinball Machine Logo 6ft x 2 Ft Hall Runner Rug Fully Licensed Mr Pinball

She forced me to clean up the Gameroom side and the workshop side. Current lineup and art has started to hit the walls. I redid the lights with recessed and split the circuit to have the cans above the game dimmable.

Picked up what was left of the alphabet at the local Michaels to spell out Games. $5 a letter on sale.

Added one with the lights turned down.

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Is that the $600 subscription series of prints?

I shall call it my auxiliary game room, aka the garage. So many games in the house it is easier to work on them out here. Time to rebuild some flipper mechs!

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Had a little get together and the cookout quickly turned in to hours of pinball

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Absolutely. They always gravitate toward the games and every time they play they get better. Kids were ages 3-7 and had a blast.

I am at capacity for sure per the game room treaty of 2016 enacted by my wife. Plenty of space to play comfortably. I do need to use the cart to maneuver machines around for service though.

I have 2 more games in the garage, which need to be sold, or put in the info shined side of the basement, South Park and Demolition Man.

RBION was sold and replaced with a T2, that is killer now with a Pinsound board in it. Missing Ripley though and will probably try and find another one.

Well I have most of the games I have wanted for a long time. No more overflow in the unfinished portion of the basement and nothing has encroached beyond the carpet per the gameroom treaty of 2016 I have ratified with my wife.

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Oh how I have tried. I had 3 pins on the other side of the theater and was prepping to lawyer up for the divorce.

Part of my Gameroom and Me with the family. Our photographer was taking newborn photos and wanted to take one with my 5 year old and his legos, and then she saw the pinball machines. This is the result.

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I built my wife a $50K spa like bathroom. My gameroom restrictions were lifted at my house!

Not my full game room but my garage workshop/summer annex area.

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I rearranged the line up to fit in some new additions. I should probably sell something like the Popeye or NGG at some point to free up space.

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I have one and the topper. I just hadn’t put it back on prior to the photo.

My son has some friends over and they wanted nothing to do with any of his toys!

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I am getting ready to redo the flooring and maybe paint.

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Well I hate the poorly installed and cheap laminate flooring in the theater area that came with the house. I was thinking a better quality hard flooring surface where the majority of the pins are and then recarpet the rest of the finished basement to warm up the space. It is very off-white now.

Yep

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First photos of the Game Room 2019

I will be embarking on a bit of a project down here to warm the space up by changing flooring, paint and perhaps replacing the drop ceiling or painting it black.

If I get really ambitious I may move 2 walls and expand in to more of the unfinished storage space.

Happy new year everyone!

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I worry about sound bleeding through to the first floor and sound from first floor coming through downstairs.

Also, I did have a Doctor Who but I sold it.

Minor lineup change. Working on a Marvel theme I guess? Anyone have an Ironman and Avengers I can pickup? I will need to rearrange to get Spidey, Magneto, Deadpool and the Guardians all together.

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I just cleaned out the unfinished side of my basement and made room for 7 games. I then rearranged which both made my wife happy and made room for the Black Knight SOR LE I have coming! Pretty sure I can fit 20 games down here now without losing any space for the kids to play!

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Never had any condensation issues before. If I notice anything I’ll deal with it then.

Ok so I have posted previously but have some updates. Space next to the Star Wars is for my BKSOR LE. I then put up room divider curtains on the unfinished side, wires up some recessed lighting and made myself a little pinball annex off of the main area.

I need to finish up the electrical to move the ceiling outlet and then get to painting the ceiling black. I’ll need to pull all the curtains and games out to paint without ruining anything but I’ll get to that eventually.

Right now I am just flipping!

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Today the game room morphed in to a baby rollercoaster simulator...

I just finished cleaning up down here! Half the space is a kids play area and another section is a room for my son’s Legos, but this portion is all mine!

Panoramic pics to try and capture the layout.
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Some match games I have or have had, some don’t.

I don’t think they need to match the game they are in front of per say, but they can!

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Game room and kids toy area Pre-Thanksgiving

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New toy modified and my son and his friend are having a blast!

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The current quarantine lineup. Playing with my Son today, and everyday during this.

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A bit of a rearrange and addition of Rick and Morty.

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My basement which is part Lego room, part toddler play area, part theater and mostly game room.

The pins are divvied up between 3 areas. Here are the games.

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The space is an odd shape but I have packed them in where I can and it doesn’t conflict with the kids play area.

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It’s called the Fuff. I got it on Black Friday from Amazon a few years ago. It’s full of memory foam cubes and is 7’ across. It gets used by the kids regularly for movies.

Game Room walkthrough.

20. Of the space they are crammed in to, not sure of the space being occupied. The entire house is around 3500 sq. Ft.

There is more space down there but my wife says the kids need a play area and there is a room down there dedicated to my 9 year old’s Legos.

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eBay. Some guy in China selling printed bath mats I stuck to the cement floor with carpet tape.

A little Game Room update. Sold some and picked up a couple of new games and then felt compelled to rearrange most of the lineup. Then we had a good 2 hours of 4 player family fun tonight!

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Thanks!