atari70s Posted December 16, 2001 Share Posted December 16, 2001 I need new ideas to display my collection and storing my collection at the same time. i was on digitpress and saw sniderman's collection besides others and saw some interesting displays my one fault here is that the walls arent made to hold a whole collection like mine. the cracks start to form. any ideas im getting new carpeting in my room so i can get to redecorate any good ideas??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Well, if you're having problems with the walls being able to support the weight, I'd suggest using bookshelves. Also, if you look at Sylenwulf's setup on Digital Press' site (I was actually checking these all out earlier today... what a coincidince!), you'll see he managed to find some nice, large bins that work as drawers. These are completely awesome, and I plan to get some of these once I have enough joysticks and crap to justify the purchase. They'd probably be good for cartridges too. Damn, looking at those pictures makes me feel so... inadequate... Oh well, one of these days I'll have a picture or three on that page. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted December 17, 2001 Author Share Posted December 17, 2001 i could get 3 pics out of it im sure joes collection make me look like nothing. there was a guy who used to talk about little baggies used every chance to talk about it whered he go. hmm i must go back to look tomm. btu i m happy with my collection . nothign too bad with it. i got 40 or 50 joysticks paddles and such Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid_sky Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 get a hold of a set of drawers, made like card catalogues in a library. Lable the ends of tehm a-b-c-d-e- and so on, and remove the cards. Stack your games inside the drawers, this should work very well. Its kind of like an idea i devised a while back for an atari storage system. Im still planning on making it, but i got too busy to get beyond the planning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarimania Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Hi, To display my games I made : My Atari Wall : But I hadn't enought place on it so I started a second one few month ago :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarimania Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 Ooppss, sorry I just wanted to put links to the pictures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 Here's a chance for me to pimp a section of our site again: AtariAge Storage Tips It needs some serious revamping, but these pictures represent how I store my collection. Well, these pictures are at least two years old now and I have substantially more now than I did then, so it's time to take some new shots (with a better camera, also). And I'd really like to expand on this section and include pictures and ideas from others as well. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted December 18, 2001 Author Share Posted December 18, 2001 albert let me guess you store your colletion in a finished basement??? i get the feeling from so many people's pics of there collections. maybe i should have taken the basement when i had the chance. damn i guess now i know why im just a kid and not a smart person. (YET). how do i make most of my limit wieght limit . ( and i dont weigh much maybe 140) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 1, 2002 Share Posted January 1, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Atarimania: Hi, To display my games I made : My Atari Wall ) Hey, I really like how you've setup those shelves. Can you provide me with more information on how you set them up? It looks like you have a modular shelving system, judging from the vertical rails you have holding the shelves up. How much space is between each row? How deep are the shelves? What size are the shelf supports? I'd love to set something up like this at home, since it's much more efficient than bookshelves which are always non-optimal for storage of boxed games, unless you have them custom made (and then you're talking about spending a *lot* of money!) Thanks, ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted January 2, 2002 Author Share Posted January 2, 2002 nice wall of atari. wait to you all see my stuff your gonna see like totally nothing . well im young and all but still my collection is hardly anything like yours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted January 2, 2002 Author Share Posted January 2, 2002 nice wall of atari. wait to you all see my stuff your gonna see like totally nothing . well im young and all but still my collection is hardly anything like yours. yet im still looking for other ideas (ALBERT AND ALEX) and other roomies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmi Posted January 2, 2002 Share Posted January 2, 2002 Well my whole game room is nothing but shelves since the room is only 10 foot by 12 foot and 2 of the 4 walls are cement (its in the basement) i have the vertical racks with various size shelves from 8 inches to 1 foot deep, and looks like a tornado went though the room but it gets the job done, i just added 2 more shelves to display the boxed 2600/7800/5200 games ive been getting i am up to 21 boxed games now and before i started visiting this site i only had 3 boxed games (Qix-5200-sealed, Super Huey-7800, Spiderman-2600) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnspike Posted January 3, 2002 Share Posted January 3, 2002 I don't have alot of boxed carts, and I am really into playing the games from the console rather than using an emu. My storage consists of "shoebox" baseball card storeage boxes that you can buy at any card shop. Remove the center divider and it'll hold 34 cartridges. I have all my games in those in order from A-Z by maker. It makes it real easy to grab a box and set it down next to my console for some serious play. What boxes I do have are kept elsewhere in deep storage. Crude yet practical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted January 3, 2002 Share Posted January 3, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Turnspike: It makes it real easy to grab a box and set it down next to my console for some serious play. What boxes I do have are kept elsewhere in deep storage. Crude yet practical. This is sort of what I do too. I have various shelves around my game systems that house all my cartridges so that I can grab them easily. All the boxes I have (which isn't that many really.. I'm not a box fiend) are sitting on shelves downstairs. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted January 4, 2002 Author Share Posted January 4, 2002 my loosecart storage is a simple system alpha by company then model number (Cx-2602 or ax-023) then picture,text, silver, or red then copywrite year easy system. boxes only company and model number. still my collection isnt liek the really big ones like the ones on the web. (yet not a shoebox)but its somewhere in the middle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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