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The Ultimate Game Room 156

Posted by michael from the his-is-bigger-than-yours dept.
ehkz writes "Here is the ultimate game collection that any hard core gamer would envy." Check out the other collections too.
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  • Fist Sport (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:03AM (#6772262)
    I'd sooner have a room with a girlfriend in, if it were all the same.

  • I dunno about the ultimate... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by AtariDatacenter ( 31657 ) on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:06AM (#6772268)
    Lots of console stuff and home computer stuff. But it is awfully lacking in the coin-op department. But still, quite a collection!

  • Summary (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:06AM (#6772269)
    "I have shit-loads of money and no girlfriend"

    • Re:Summary (Score:4, Funny)

      by CGP314 ( 672613 ) <CGP&ColinGregoryPalmer,net> on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:16AM (#6772309) Homepage
      I have shit-loads of money

      Not after you pay for the bandwidth on all those images.

    • Re:Summary (Score:4, Funny)

      by LordLucless ( 582312 ) on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:40AM (#6772382)
      "I have shit-loads of money and no girlfriend"

      Not after he gets his post-slashdot bandwidth bill he won't. Have shit-loads of money that is. A slashdotting can't help with the girlfriend.

      • Re:Summary (Score:5, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:51AM (#6772407)
        Why is it that everybody assumes that women aren't attracted to smart, sensitive guys?

        I'm smart and sensitive (not my words, mind you) and I never had trouble finding girlfriends and now I'm happily married.

        Of course if you don't take care of your personal hygiene and can't talk about anything else than SCO, Microsoft and Linux you'll have trouble. But then again, you are not being smart and sensitive in the first place.

        Actually even talking isn't (initially) that important. Women can talk endlessly about themselves and their friends, so all you have to do is to keep listening and ask something trivial once in a while to show that you're paying attention.

        • So true! so very true.
        • Actually even talking isn't (initially) that important. Women can talk endlessly about themselves and their friends, so all you have to do is to keep listening and ask something trivial once in a while to show that you're paying attention.

          I take it your wife doesn't read Slashdot?
        • This is shockingly true and simple, well put.

          The funny thing is, girls tend to be attracted to men they find 'mysterious', 'shy' or 'quiet' (see mysterious). All you have to do to be mysterious is strike up a conversation then let her do all the talking. If she likes you and she gets comfortable just let her yak all night while you throw in a 'uh huh' or 'really?' once in awhile. It's really easy to feign interest with someone who loves to hear their own voice. :)
        • I have had incredible success just repeated whatever they say back to them in the form of a question. Works like a goddamn charm because most women (and people for that matter) love to talk about themselves. For example:

          Girl: And then, we like, went to Gina's house and got, like, really drunk.

          You: You went to Gina's and got drunk?

          Girl: Yeah! And then we were like, so drunk, and like, we went to the bar.

          You: You went to the bar huh? How drunk were you?

          Girl: We were like, blah blee blahbbyblah.

        • Re:Summary (Score:3, Funny)

          by cfuse ( 657523 )
          Why is it that everybody assumes that women aren't attracted to smart, sensitive guys?

          Women are attracted to smart, sensitive guys - they're called gay men.


        • Actually even talking isn't (initially) that important. Women can talk endlessly about themselves and their friends, so all you have to do is to keep listening and ask something trivial once in a while to show that you're paying attention.

          Why was this modded as FUNNY, this should be INSIGHTFUL.

    • Re:Summary (Score:3, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Yes, but it is because he has no girlfriend that he has money.
    • "I have shit-loads of money and no girlfriend"

      Hmm... if you had RTFA you may have caught this quote. "The rest of the storage area. My wife insists that this room is to be used for laundry" (empahasis on wife taken from the original article). It seems that the reason he has no girlfriend very little to do with his video game addiction and very much to do with his being married.

      PK

  • Games (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:06AM (#6772270)
    We are on the brink of World War 3 and all you can do is talk about your "case mods" and "game rigs"? GET SOME PRIORITIES PEOPLE!!!

  • Room of Doom (Score:4, Funny)

    by CGP314 ( 672613 ) <CGP&ColinGregoryPalmer,net> on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:07AM (#6772274) Homepage
    Next time I think 'I have a video game problem' I'm going back to this site to fell better about myself.

  • Amazing collection, but... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Bagels ( 676159 ) on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:09AM (#6772280)
    It seems a bit incomplete in the sense that it's lacking two of the four more modern consoles (at least, he only mentions a PlayStation 2 and a Dreamcast). There are definitely games worthy of collecting on both the XBox and the GameCube. Also, as a collector, has he ever actually played all of the games that he owns? I imagine that that would be pretty much a full time job, though if he can afford all of those gaming devices, he's probably independently wealthy.
    • Insane in the Mameframe? I get my lowbudget nostalgia through emu's these days. Good enough.
    • I'm a DP'er... (Digital Presser?) Joe, the guy that owns that nice video game setup, is one of the guys behind the Classic Gaming Expo [cgexpo.com] that was held in Las Vegas for the past few years. He's big into the scene and really knows his stuff. He's the editior in cheif of the Digital Press Collectors guide. The guide shows the rarity and dollar values they believe older games are worth. DP is /.'ed now so I can't provide a link to the guide. He does sell the guide at a few places besides the dp site. Ebay is on [ebay.com]
    • Also, as a collector, has he ever actually played all of the games that he owns?

      I think that by definition, the answer is almost certainly no.

      You might as well ask a coin collector "have you actually spent all of the coins you own?".
      • Err, that's a pretty lame comparison. Why would a coin collecter spend some rare penny on a piece of one cent candy?

        Anyway with things like coins and stamps you can't really "use" them, but with autos and especially games you certainly can use them.

        Owning a recently made toy(ie form the last 20 years) and then not playing with it is fairly retarded. Things from this time period simply aren't worth enough to worry about. I could see not wanting to risk really rare games that are worth hundreds of dollars,
    • im p00r.. cant afford that stuff...
    • If you read the quotes below the pictures, you will find he has both the XBox and a GameCube. He has all the current systems hooked up to his TV, but "though I have to admit... I'm "retro" and rarely find a new title worth playing, let alone collecting."

      PK

  • I don't see a girlfriend in any of these photos... I wonder why.

  • Archive? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by CGP314 ( 672613 ) <CGP&ColinGregoryPalmer,net> on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:18AM (#6772315) Homepage
    This is one hell of a collection, but I can't help but wonder if he does anything to prevent bitrot or is preserving these games in some way. It's cool now, but in 20 years, he will be left with a lot of worthless plastic and silicon.

    • Re:Archive? (Score:4, Interesting)

      by freeweed ( 309734 ) on Saturday August 23, 2003 @09:26AM (#6772511)
      I'm in the same boat as this guy (although my Vectrex needs some work on the display *grumble*), and I *am* doing something about bitrot.

      I'm keeping copies of ROMs for every game I own on my PC, and back them up to whatever off-site media is available reasonably cheap. Started with tape, moved onto CD, and just finished with some DVD-R's of ROMs.

      If I keep this up, my game collection will more than outlive me, although I've yet to see any bitrot on any game I own, and some of the original Atari VCS cartridges are 26 years old now.
    • Say what? If you're talking console cartridges, then there's no "bit-rot", because those use factory mask-programmed ROMs, i.e. the data is etched into good ol' silicon. This is as good as it gets in terms of long-term reliability. Many arcade machines, OTOH, use EPROMs, which tend to "discharge" over the years. But real ROMs are built to last.

  • You have a problem (Score:3, Funny)

    by CGP314 ( 672613 ) <CGP&ColinGregoryPalmer,net> on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:23AM (#6772331) Homepage
    3DO, Vectrex, ColecoVision, Nintendo, Atari, Intellivision, Game Gear, Astrocade, PlayStation...

    Fine, fine. Good collection.

    TI-99?

    OK buddy, you have a problem. I think this has gone too far. You need some help :)
  • Google has managed to salvage some of the site before it got slashdotted, so here is the Google cache [216.239.37.104].

  • That's it! (Score:5, Funny)

    by mrpuffypants ( 444598 ) * <[mrpuffypants] [at] [gmail.com]> on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:34AM (#6772367)
    You can almost hear the web server quietly muttering "Game Over!"

    • Re:That's it! (Score:2, Funny)

      by Kiffer ( 206134 )
      You can almost hear the web server quietly muttering "Game Over!"


      Game Over: Score 4%

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  • cached on Google (Score:5, Informative)

    by Lust ( 14189 ) on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:42AM (#6772388) Homepage
    cached here. [216.239.53.104]

  • text from page...sooo slooowwww (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:44AM (#6772394)
    North wall: light streams in above some 3DO games, perched in front of them are Coleco tabletop units. there's a Virtual Boy on the counter-top to the left. hanging next to the window are some Activision patches and just below that, one of the two Vectrex systems we commonly play with. North wall: the other Vectrex is just to the right, alongside the Adventurevision. behind that, a loose ColecoVision game collection. Loose Nintendo games are behind the Millipede mobile. East wall: on the shelves are the nicer boxed titles for Atari 2600 and 5200, just to the right are the Intellivision boxes. Below, a custom-made storage rack holds over 350 Atari 2600 games. East wall: here's the rest of that wall. Intellivision occupies the three top shelves to the right.

    West wall: various things tucked into this corner, blocking my way into the drawers (pics below). North wall: when you open the closet behind the hanging marquees, this is what you see. Game Gear, Arcadia, Vectrex, Game.com, books, and miscellaneous peripherals are kept in here. Note the "gun rack" on the door. East wall: under the counter-top is this opening where more stuff is packed in. Facing out are more NES games and a small cache of import Atari 2600 carts. Pull this back... East wall: ...and you see my video game boardgame collection , some portable gaming stuff and more miscellaneous items that didn't have a home.

    North Wall: pull open the top left drawer and find some of my Astrocade games and the older PlayStation stuff. North Wall: the top drawer second from the left has some boxed SNES games. East Wall: the top drawer on the left side has my Fairchild Channel F carts, and some of the better Commodore 64, VIC-20, and Atari 8-bit carts. Also my loose Vectrex carts here. East Wall: the top drawer on the right side has most of my import Atari 2600 cartridges, and my Lynx stuff.

    North Wall: the middle drawer on the left side has Odyssey and Videopac stuff. North Wall: the middle drawer, second from the left has Atari 5200 stuff. East Wall: the bottom drawer on the left side has mostly boxed Atari 2600 games. East Wall: the bottom drawer on the right side has miscellaneous ColecoVision stuff, and a few Intellivision items.

    North Wall: the bottom drawer on the left side has boxed Atari 2600 import stuff, some controllers and other miscellaneous homeless items. North Wall: the bottom drawer, second from the left has mostly 3DO goodies. South Wall: packed in under the staircase are a PC-FX, Video Brain and some oddball peripherals. Also my Sega 32X and Atari 7800 games. under the Pac-man pillow is an Odyssey frisbee and a CD storage cabinet with PlayStation games. South/West corner: still under the staircase, two CD storage units with PlayStation games. Behind that, two shelving units with boxed NES games. Between the shelving units, most of the Sega Master System boxed games. Sega Saturn games are stacked up to the right.

    South Wall: just in front of the steps are some of the Dreamcast, PlayStation, and CD-i games. West Wall: much of the Genesis collection can be seen here, the monitor is running whatever console we're in the mood for (Dreamcast at the moment). Between the shelves of Genesis games are some of the PC Engine imports and Neo-Geo cartridges. West Wall: the rest of the Genesis collection is here. The monitor is dedicated to a MAME-dedicated PC with a HotRod SE arcade quality joystick. Behind the table is a complete TurboGrafx-16 HuCard collection and a portion of a complete Sega CD collection. North/East corner: just a further-back peek at this side for perspective.

    On the other side of the wall is the storage area, where the DP publications are kept, as well as trade items. Some of the collection is kept in this room, mainly the hardware. The rest of the storage area. The upstairs room has our only coin-op machine, which runs Punch-Out!.Super Punch-Out!, and Arm Wrestling. Piles of stuff that I have no idea what to do with litter the corners. The back corner of the upstairs room, mostly

  • My collection... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by NEOGEOman ( 155470 ) on Saturday August 23, 2003 @09:23AM (#6772504)
    I can't see the collection in question (And I'll wager no one else can at the moment either) so here's mine, if anyone cares.

    It's big, I'm serious. [2y.net]

    It's a serious illness - I love hardware. I love playing with it, tinkering with it, hacking it up and putting what I learn online:

    GameSX.com [gamesx.com]
    NFG games [2y.net]
  • The one thing he's missing is a switch so he can hook up more than 2 consoles at a time. Or maybe a TV with more inputs.
    • Some form of decent project setup. Not the old behind-screen projection TV's that were known to burn with video games, but a decent overhead. Than perhaps a modified KVM switch to swap between consoles (and a couple nice power bars to allow many of the consoles to be plugged in).

      Throw in a nice gamers' couch, and he'd be set. Having a few thousand games isn't much good if all you have is a hard floor and 13" TV to play 'em with .
  • "ehkz writes "Here is the ultimate game collection that any hard core gamer would envy." Check out the other collections too. "

    So, Debbie does * are games too?

    I don't think my joystick could handle it.
  • As a married reader who has no problem getting a little tail every now and again (most likely unlike this guy) -- I propose he offer timeshares to us. I mean at best sex can last 20-25 minutes...But a good game of Donkey Kong can go on for hours. I mean how does that compare?
    • As a married reader who has no problem getting a little tail every now and again (most likely unlike this guy) -- I propose he offer timeshares to us. I mean at best sex can last 20-25 minutes...But a good game of Donkey Kong can go on for hours. I mean how does that compare?
      So what are you suggesting? Swapping time with your wife for a game of Donkey Kong?

      Not Eskimo by any chance are you?

  • Room Description (Score:4, Funny)

    by Joe U ( 443617 ) on Saturday August 23, 2003 @11:09AM (#6772839) Homepage Journal
    'You are in a twisty maze of passageways, all alike'

  • Save some space, man (Score:4, Funny)

    by Corporal Tunnel ( 642897 ) on Saturday August 23, 2003 @11:47AM (#6772967)
    Someone should really teach this guy what an emulator is.

  • Impressive (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Edd ( 24120 ) on Saturday August 23, 2003 @12:00PM (#6773026) Homepage
    One of my friends collects video games and old computers, he has just over 100 now.

    Off the top of my head:
    Amiga 500
    Amiga 600
    Amiga CDTV
    Amiga 1200
    Amiga CD32
    Amstrad CPC464
    Amstrad GX4000
    Atari 2600
    Atari 4800
    Atari Falcon
    Atari Lynx
    Atari STE
    Apple Mac Classic
    BBC Model B
    BBC Master System
    Coleco Vision
    Commodore 64
    Commodore 128
    Commodore Vic20
    Neo Geo
    Neo Geo Pocket
    Nintento Famicom
    Nintendo NES (PAL)
    Nintendo NES (NTSC)
    Nintendo Super Famicom
    Nintendo SNES (NTSC)
    Nintendo SNES (PAL)
    Nintendo N64
    Nintendo Gameboy
    Nintendo Gameboy Color
    Nintendo Gameboy Advance
    Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
    Nintendo Virtual Boy
    Nintendo Gamecube
    PC Engine
    Panasonic 3D0
    Panasonic 3D0 (Goldstar Version)
    Philips CDi
    Sega Master System
    Sega Game Gear
    Sega Mega Drive
    Sega Genesis
    Sega Mega CD
    Sega 32x
    Sega Saturn
    Sega Dreamcast
    Sinclair ZX80
    Sinclair ZX81
    Sinclair Spectrum
    Sinclair Spectrum 48K
    Sinclair Spectrum 48K+
    Sinclair Spectrum 128+2
    Sony PSX
    Sony Playstation
    Sony Playstation 2
    Tiger Game.com

    This is only arond 75% of what he has, the rest is too obscure for my memory. He also has some really rare stuff like a SNES CD Rom drive that Nintendo succeeded in having banned, the power glove and other fun things.

    He is mad
  • No Collection of computer games is complete without XCOM 1
  • ...since I collect first edition science fiction hardbacks [io.com], I really don't have any standing to cast aspersions on someone else's collecting madness...
  • How bizarre, I just came home with my game collection (well, just the boxes anyway) from my mother's basement... As always you can always find someone who's bigger, better and faster than you on the internet.
  • Here is the link to the internet archive's older mirror of the site (at least most of the images load):

    http://web.archive.org/web/20020203061232/http:/ /www.digitpress.com/roomdoom/roomdoom.htm

  • Maybe he just forgot, but I didn't see any mention of a gameboy in that room. Oh well, his loss.
  • Where does he find room for the boxes of condoms?

    Oh, wait, right, sorry... never mind me.
  • Hi all, that's my room in the main link, but my addiction is well-shared, if you happened to check out all the others (many of whom are way bigger than me... isn't that *something*... envy?). The girlfriend idea is a good one. I've been thinking about that for several years now. I don't know if my wife of 12 years will have a problem with it, but maybe she'll be up for a threesome, sounds like good clean fun. Thanks for the suggestions! The bandwidth sucks but at least we own our own servers. Never been s

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