c0wb0y's room

[c0wb0y]

My awesome wife helped me paint the media room just before the holidays and I'd like to share the results with this community.
I created a stencil of my favorite space invader sprite and she worked on that while I did the rest of the walls.
I still have plans to add the shields at the bottom of the wall, and to add the player ship and some yellow lasers. But that is work for another day.
I hope the one repeating sprite does not offend any purists out there. Artistic license meets time and patience constraints.

Here is the Invaders wall:

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I used a panoramic stitching app, and one red invader looks wonky. It looks fine IRL.

Here is a panorama of the room:

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Thanks for looking! See y'all at the Texas Pinball Festival in March?

[prfsnl_gmr]

I am offended by the repeating sprite!

Seriously, though, your room looks fantastic, and you are very lucky man to have a wife that would help you create it.

Also, I am exceptionally jealous of your pinball machines. They look great.

[Hobie-wan]

I am offended by the repeating sprite!

Me too! I got the torches if you've got some pitchforks.

Looks great. I too am jealous of all the pinball and a dedicated game room.

[flojocabron]

very nice setup.

the panoramic view is a nice way to bring it all together.

[TheGrimAngel]

Very nice, love the wall art.

[Nyukki]

Truly awesome, congrats!

[Dakinggamer87]

Very nice gaming room, cool pinball machines!!

[noiseredux]

dood! That is an amazing looking room. Wow.

I'm always a fan of game rooms that aren't just massive piles of mish-mashed carts and controllers.

[c0wb0y]

Thanks, everybody.
The Pinball Hall of Fame games on Wii got me hooked into the real thing as a hobby. I love playing video and IRL pinball. I'm always reading the Video Pinball thread.

If you have the space, pinball can be semi-affordable. The least I've spent on a pin was $150. But it does take some knowledge and basic soldering skills if they break or are not working to begin with. And for goodness sake, unplug them when you have to do any work. Safety first!
I've seen a lot of working older EM pins listed in the 250-500 range. That's not small change, but for anybody considering a new gaming system, they will run in the same ballpark. Then you buy an extra controller & games... might as well get a pin if you've ever dreamed of it.

Most of the piles of games manage to fit on those 3 shelves in the panorama. It's mostly PS2 and 360 games, but a good mix of my other retro consoles as well.

I recently moved my DC and NGC (and their games) downstairs to the living room. I have a bookcase just outside the media room shown with my N64, Genesis, Odyssey2 & DS games, as well as my recently repaired Virtual Boy. I'd like to get all those in the media room eventually.

I added some other shots that I just edited for size below:
Main system area:

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Over the TV, various games and curiosities (Peter Mayhew signed my Star Wars album):

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Main Game shelves.

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[Ramatut4001]

Nice setup. I have a TV stand just like that in my living room. I got it from Ikea. I like it because you can keep a big TV low. I hate when TVs are mounted too high.