I just converted my enclosed sunroom into my arcade room. I put up some of the thermal rejecting (mirror finished) window tint on all my floor to ceiling windows. The nice thing is that the tint is also a UV blocker.

My only complaint about my project... I've already filled up the room.

These 2D game room floor plans are so inefficient. So much wasted space. 3D is solution - invent the bunk pin.

Kinda like a 80's synth player... only with pins.

I don't know why the OP doesn't just do the obvious with the damage to his new home... a quick trip up to 88mph should be able to solve all the problems with the movers.

Be careful when you put them next to each other. Mine were always talking behind my back about finding a way to off my SW Episode I... so, I had to get rid of it. They are much happier now.

Congratulations. SWDE was our first pin as well. Since I had this copied to the clipboard, I might as well add this here as a PSA as well. Throw a Pinsound card into your game to kick it up several notches. John Williams makes everything better.

Can’t recommend the mini-split idea enough. Ours was a life saver.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/dedicated-game-room-or-environmental-panic-room-of-the-2020-s#post-6984397

12k btu sounds about right. We had several people come and give us estimates, just to make sure we were calculating the size/space right and also to get their thoughts on the concrete block walls. They all came back with 15k btu for our 570 square feet. Since we weren’t certain about the concrete block and keeping the heat in the winter, I wanted to make sure we got one with the dual inverter/hyper heat tech. Unfortunately, late last year nobody had the hyper heat versions in stock and wouldn’t get them until spring for the 15k models. We ended up switching to an LG 18k hyper heat and it hasn’t had any issues with heat or cooling.

These mini-splits are awesome these days. If I were building a house, I would likely design them into the plan.

Well, that's certainly something I never expected to see in this thread. I hope you don't ever need it either; but, you may want to consider adding one more game to that room. I don't know much about floods; but, seem to recall something about 2x2 being a part of it... you may need an even number and I only count 7 games in there.

Aw! You need a little inflatable baby floaties for the Bell Ringer. Stick them right on the legs.

I have a similar arcade metal sign that is battery powered that I didn’t want to have to replace the on and also wanted to have turn on/off with the rest via Alexa. I just got the right sized AC adapter and wired it to the terminals. On the sign I have, the tin is soft enough for me to bend the tabs holding the battery holder open and wire it up from inside.

Nah, don’t listen to the Peanut, we, Flintstones gallery. I would take the fact that nobody’s noticed as a sign you should go even further. Full frontal dinosaur so to speak.

Ok. Let’s be honest. How many of us scroll through pics in this thread and notice that and get a twinge of anxiety.

No pics of my game room at the moment as my new Godzilla keeps complaining about poor WiFi signal.

Maybe he will retheme it to the movie Cowboys & Aliens?

Those look very nice and she did a fantastic job; but, what about the fourth “M” required for pinball… “Money”?

Good luck in filling it. We picked up a 4 sided pusher (Pharaoh’s Treasure) and I ended up tracking down something like 3000 identical tokens on eBay to fill it and have enough to still feed it. My wife and niece love playing it. I look at it and see another couple vids or a pin that could take its place. Oh well, it’s stuck in there now and won’t fit through anything other than the garage doors that are now powered off, sealed, and locked.

I still need to get inside of it and replace the fan on the bottom layer as it’s very noisy. The 4 sided ones means there isn’t a good way to get to the center.

I think you can squeeze in a couple more games... on the ceiling once you remove the chandelier.

Gotta love the commitment though. Who needs those doors when you can get more games in?

I'm going to keep this in mind when I need to convince the boss we've got no space left in our game room.

We “had” to change our homes (built in the 50s) discharge path when we had a sewer main issue as the contractor said it was out of code going to the sewer line. They claimed that occasionally the city inspectors release colored smoke into the local line and wait to see which homes report it to fine them. If they didn’t need to tear up the whole yard to rerun the line, I probably would’ve left it alone; but, it was as good of a time as any to do it.

Sorry to hear about the basement flood. That always sucks. Thankfully the only water we ever had in our basement was from a water heater leak. Unfortunately, it wasn’t able to drain over to the sump even though there was a drain right in front of it because the line was clogged. It turns out when we had the original water softener from the house replaced, they tipped it over to let some of the water weight to drain and ended up clogging the line with the silica. Always a good thing to check those drains to your sump are clear.

I never heard about the water powered sump backups, so thanks for sharing that. I’ve got a battery backup; but, will look into this as well. Seems simple enough.