My Room of Complete Utter Nonsense.

[Dillweed]

Over the years, and years, I accumulate more and more games. I dedicated a whole room to the collection I have amassed. So, here's what I have going on.

 

*Warning: Long, long post.*

 

This is where most of my consoles are set up. Others can be seen on the far right side, as they are extra consoles that I haven't gotten around to, yet. You'll also notice I graduated this year.

 

 

You can see that my Japanese consoles currently reside here, as I have yet to set up a station where these can be played, as well. They won't play on the current set because of the Channel 95/96 situation. Other consoles such as the Odyssey2/Atari2600/Intellivision (not pictured)/Colecovision also appear here, because these consoles are strictly RF machines, while this isn't the reason they sit here, the main reason is because of the need to interact either with the console itself, or the ridiculously short controllers on the consoles. I still need to figure out a situation for those. My spare machines also are placed here.

 

 

Now to move on to the other, more interesting stuff.

You'll find upon the top shelf, an Odyssey 2 in it's box (I have two) as this was the one I've had for a long time. Behind and rather hidden, is an Odyssey 2000, which I found at a flea market for ten dollars. An Advance SP in the box, a nice $2.50 garage sale find, can be shown in the foreground. And of course, my Cassette Vision box stuff.

 

This is the main shelf that contains most of my consoles. Each one is hooked up though composite switchers, which are daisy chained together, for an endless supply of switches. The nice thing about these switchers is that they do not lose video quality, even when hooking several up to each other. You'll see my original NES from when I was a kid here, the one with the Berzerk-like robots. Just wanted to point that out, if you were wondering what that nonsense was. I also own a Vectrex, because it's the Vectrex. Below that, a footlocker I call "The Vault of Sins." This is where games that don't deserve a place on my shelf go. Games such as Custer's Revenge or The Guy Game rot here, no I don't own those, but they're good examples. This little discrepancy I thought was a good candidate;

God, this thing is so weird, I kinda hate looking at it.

 

 

For the first shelf of games, I have at the top, most of my Sega stuff. My Sega Master System cases are placed there, as well as a Mark III box. A couple obscured Saturn games as well.

 

 

This is the reason I built this shelf. Specifically for Nintendo cartridge games. Each shelf can hold 69/70 NES games.

 

Located below my NES games is the rest of my Sega stuff, a few FDS games, a floppy disc (which will elaborate on,) my SNES games, N64 games with pretty weird end labels, my Gameboy games, Odyssey 2 games, NES game boxes, and a few manuals thrown about.

 

 

Now for this floppy disk. My woodshop instructor for my senior class gave me this, as it was an educational game he used to teach his classes about simple machines and such. He also had The Oregon Trail, which no longer worked, and even an NES with Lolo to teach kids about puzzle solving. I actually helped him repair the NES, as it wasn't working after some time. I decided to look up this disk and surprisingly enough, we have another rare item. The game, Miner's Cave, only has the Apple II version available. This is the DOS version.

 

 

Behind me, are a couple more shelves, which contain more odds and ends. A Power Pad in the box, and couple "Brick Games" which are cheap Chinese handheld games that play Tetris, most noticeably, and a few other games. It's just some more garage sale stuff. The same goes for the Mattel football game and those organizer boxes. In front of the 360 box is my prototype F-1 Race and Cassette Vision Galaxian test cart, which I've talked upon. These two aren't garage sale finds, but I think that might be obvious.

 

 

Down a level are my Cassette Vision collection, a couple PAL Atari 2600 games in the background, my Famicom games, as well as where I store my Master System/Genesis games. There's a Cassette Recorder (CCR-81) for Tandy machines in there, too.

 

 

Here I have some boxed games, and a Clock Tower box, which I regret buying. I also have my Colecovision games, my M-Network, and Imagic 2600 games. You can also see my Coleco Alien Attack game, and the Cassette Vision gun.

 

 

It took me this long to get to the bulk of my Atari 2600 collection. This isn't all of it, but it's definitely most.

 

 

This is the last shelf, and the only particle board shelf I own. As much as I despise particle board, this shelf is actually very decent. Here is the last of my Atari collection, my other more modern games, and some extra CV games that I don't need. (Yes, I have two Monster Blocks, want one?) Behind that are Gameboy consoles that are spares.

 

 

The last thing I own is some stereo equipment, it's pretty good. I just brought it in, and still need to set it up to those speakers that are also being used by the television.

 

 

So, what do you think?

Edited April 20, 2019 by Dillweed

[OldSchoolRetroGamer]

Wow seems like retro heaven man! Nice setup, I am envious. Extra points for the BOOMBOX! Love it!

[Dillweed]

Note: Second to last picture has an Atari game called The Alien Frenzy. This is nothing odd, but rather my first step into video game programming. It's a game (a hack rather) done back in 2012.

[wafflerevolution]

very cool!

[3DFXgamer]

You have a very healthy collection! I love the Pioneer stereo... I have the same equalizer as yours. Im using it with a carver amp and Marantz preamp... is that a real bearded dragon?

[+sramirez2008]

Very cool collection. Wish I had a Vectrex. Please share more pics of your boom box and stereo system within this thread: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/254388-vintage-stereo-systems/?p=3543463

[+save2600]

Very nice!

[Dillweed]

is that a real bearded dragon?

Yep, sure is. He's pretty quirky.

[Machine]

Nice stuff!

I have the same Magnavox Boombox, but the cassette seems to need some love. Was yours working when you got it? What was your repair work?

[Dillweed]

Nice stuff!

I have the same Magnavox Boombox, but the cassette seems to need some love. Was yours working when you got it? What was your repair work?

Thanks, I got it for ten bucks at a garage sale. The guy said the cassette deck wasn't working, much like yours. My D8443, and many others have this issue where a certain gear wears out and crumbles away. I bought a replacement gear, and the appropriate belt, and placed everything accordingly. Everything works now. This may be the problem with yours, but that's what I needed to fix mine.

Edited November 8, 2018 by Dillweed