Arcade Pix

[Flack]

After doing some cleaning this weekend, I took some new pix of my backyard arcade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RIVER]

Dude i LOVE that, freakin awesome arcade, i got a few arcade games too, but man that is stunning!!! Really cool.

Edited March 11, 2007 by RIVER

[jboypacman]

Flack.That my friend is a true thing of beauty .

[shadow460]

Nice place to get away from life for a while.

[Flack]

Thanks guys! I'm doing my best on fixing up a few of my machines. There's no worse bummer than having a friend come over, adding a credit and then having to say, "aw ... that one doesn't work right." A lot of them need little things, but it's all pretty simple stuff (new buttons or a little paint here and there). I hope to have everything up and running 100% by this summer.

[TheBman80]

Yeah that is a really great game room I wish I had that much space just for games. It's just too bad the place isn’t like 8 feet wider then you could put games back to back through the center of the room as well.

[Crazy Climber]

Nice selection

I would go in to debt if I had that much room to play with. Killer set up

[Crazy Climber]

I would put the Make Trax and Cactus cabs on the sides though, I realize you will be wasting valuble space but I think it would look more impressive being able to see all the games head on with out those cabs blocking your view. The look of my arcade is important to me though, sometimes I will just fire all mine up and not even play them, I'll just look at them for a while first Kind of like I am acknowledging that my childhood dreams have come true.

[Flack]

The only problem with turning the games in the middle sideways is if they are sideways and someone is playing them, you can no longer get down that aisle. If they are facing the middle, you can still play them and not block the aisle.

 

One of the main reasons I put the games in the middle is because there are 3 support beams that run from floor to ceiling down the middle of the building (not my design, for sure). So the games in the middle kind of hide them; without those games there the first thing you think is, what are these big beams here for??

[TheBman80]

The only problem with turning the games in the middle sideways is if they are sideways and someone is playing them, you can no longer get down that aisle. If they are facing the middle, you can still play them and not block the aisle.

 

One of the main reasons I put the games in the middle is because there are 3 support beams that run from floor to ceiling down the middle of the building (not my design, for sure). So the games in the middle kind of hide them; without those games there the first thing you think is, what are these big beams here for??

 

 

Well I just meant if you had the extra room if you had like another 8 feet or so you might be able to do it and still have room for people playing the games against the walls. The game room is great though just having as much room as you do is freaking awesome I wish I had that much room to play with myself. You ever have any thoughts about carpeting or lighting effects to give it that dark arcade cave like feeling? Maybe like a black ceiling with some sort of crazy rope lights or stars with fiber optic lights. You could even carpet the beams/poles to give it that arcade look. Then people could ask why in the world are the ceiling joist poles carpeted LOL.

[Flack]

My wife put down the black and white checkered carpet and I haven't hard the heart to change it yet. Maybe someday -- of course that would involve moving everything out, and back in. There actually is rope lighting that runs all the way around the walls, right where the wall meets the sloped ceiling.