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I wonder if that's what Romier's house looks like.

 

Nope, no dedicated game room as of yet. I have a a big Gaming wall with all the current games and most played stuff (ie choice NES/SNES/Genesis/Atari stuff) but a majority of my old schol stuff is in boxes in the closet. They only get pulled out every once in awhile. As Kelley said, my wife would kill me if I turned the second bedroom into gaming utopia.

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Originally posted by FutureVoid@Aug 28 2003, 01:03 PM

I wonder if that's what Romier's house looks like.

 

Nope, no dedicated game room as of yet. I have a a big Gaming wall with all the current games and most played stuff (ie choice NES/SNES/Genesis/Atari stuff) but a majority of my old schol stuff is in boxes in the closet. They only get puolled out every once in awhile. As Kelley said, my wife would kill me if I turned the second bedroom into gaming utopia.

My stuff is in the same state as Romiers, just current gen and my saturns pulled out.

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I guarantee you none of those guys are married.

I know for a fact that Joe Santuilli, who publishes the classic fanzine Digital Press ( a great read for anyone into classic gaming,BTW) is happily married.

 

While I don't have a gaming room just yet - I do own many classic systems & games & own somewhere in the area of 700 games - everything from classic stuff to Soul Calibur II.

 

There are some couples who are just into gaming just as much as Auntie Muffin & I. :green:

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Originally posted by FutureVoid@Aug 28 2003, 01:49 PM

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There is a reason this man has that gaming wall :twisted:.

 

He does however have the Maracas and you can see the thicker than normal Nights box in the Saturn row of games, so he does get some props.

I bet all those boxes are stuffed with used tissues.

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I don't think its really fair to assume that most aren't married - there are many a wife that just shrugs it off I'm sure. Some people collect doorknobs. Hey its a better hobby than many things (and probably a pretty liquid collectable what with ebay these days).

 

I've got a slightly larger than average video game collection I would say (hmmm maybe we should take a poll to see what average is), but I've spent a lot more time/effort/money on HT. I'm pretty sure if I flip-flopped my spending on those two hobbies my "office" would look like one of those rooms and my wife would probably be an equal level of annoyed but accepting.

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It kinda makes me ill, especially since most of those guys are playing those systems on the crappiest TV's! What is with that? Sell a few hundred games and buy a REAL freaking TV!

 

I was thinking the same. Hopefully these are game "storage" rooms and they play on another monitor. But still, why would they keep those old TVs in there? Even the nerdy "peace" guy has a Wega, so why in the hell is there an POS TV on top of the game rack?

 

Edit: Yeah I think that guy is a total dick. It looks like he doesnt even have his Gamecube hooked up! :o

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Originally posted by FutureVoid@Aug 28 2003, 05:53 PM
I don't think its really fair to assume that most aren't married

 

Of course its not fair Zathras. We're being irreverant on purpose ;)

 

Just having a bit of fun with it. to be truthful we're all just jealous. :lmfao:

 

I donno what I what was going on there myself - I need to learn to not post that close to five right after getting off the phone trying to talk a computer illiterate person through FTP for an hour :evil: :lol:

 

I ended up editing all the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" portions....

 

 

Anyway I've very jealous of most of their setups (the organized looking ones that is). I really love seeing the old boxes. I've still got my Sega Master System box in the attic - the system is long dead and gone but the box remains. Just wish I had a place to display them. Thats it I need a basement - I had better go buy a shovel.

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But still, why would they keep those old TVs in there? Even the nerdy "peace" guy has a Wega, so why in the hell is there an POS TV on top of the game rack?

 

RGB? So he can have two games running at once when friends are over?

 

There's some good guys on the Digitpress forums... Some incredibly "hardcore" collectors obviously where it's less about the games & more about addiction - they could be collecting stamps for all it matters at the end of the day. But there's some genuinely nice guys there too.

 

And I once won a pokemon pocket watch thingy from them, so they're definitely alright in my book ;)

 

I should dig up the links to the pics of the collections that a couple of friends in the UK have - major Sega fans in every sense of the word.

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Originally posted by gigapower@Aug 29 2003, 09:27 AM

please do Brian, I love to see others collections.

 

BTW - I got a new piece of my collection coming in! Can't wait.

Ok I'll bite - what do you have coming?

 

 

Over lunch I got a big box in the mail with an Odyssey 2 with a bunch of classic games (mmmmmm Pick Axe Pete and KC Munchkin will keep me busy this weekend) :) That was my first real gaming system (then I graduated to a Colecovision Adam woo woo).

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