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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???

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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)

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  • 2 weeks later...

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

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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)

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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.

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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

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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.

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