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Overhauling my games room this weekend.

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  • zeropolis79zeropolis79
    edited June 2004
    On 2004-06-23 20:35, thx1138 wrote:
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8112367048&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&rd=1

    I just bought a coin-op machine. So that's gonna bugger things up already, I'm not sure where it's going to go. LOL

    lol!

    Amy'd kill me twice if I brought one of those!

    Where on earth are you going to put it! How can u justify that to the wife?
  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited June 2004
    What're you going to get first?

    The house extension to keep it in?

    Or the grave you'll be needing when your wife finds out?

    :p
    Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
    --Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)

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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited June 2004
    It will fit in, I worked it out.

    I am allowed anything, as long as I fund it msyelf i.e with eBay, and as long as it goes in the games room.

    I shall have to lose the armchair, turn the dining table 90 degrees, and move the PC, then put the arcade machine where the PC is now.
  • Alessandro TommasiAlessandro Tommasi
    edited June 2004
    ...when you're done, please update the pictures of the games room!
  • zeropolis79zeropolis79
    edited June 2004
    On 2004-06-23 23:41, thx1138 wrote:
    It will fit in, I worked it out.

    I am allowed anything, as long as I fund it msyelf i.e with eBay, and as long as it goes in the games room.

    I shall have to lose the armchair, turn the dining table 90 degrees, and move the PC, then put the arcade machine where the PC is now.

    I have to fund my computer stuff myself - I fix computers in my spare time (but with 2 kids and a sexually active fiancee, there isn't a lot of it)
  • Alessandro TommasiAlessandro Tommasi
    edited June 2004
    ...Well, I suppose most of us, although interested in "retro", are still in the sexually active part of their lives! ...Well, quiescent, at least. :)
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited June 2004
    For those that aren't there is always this;

    http://www.syberpunk.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?page=boonga

    altough it may need some considerable modifications first!!!
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited June 2004
    Love the pictures..

    Especially the tatoos. Love the iron maiden one..

    I got a dragon one myself - had it for about 10 years.

    Yours are so fresh they still got vaseline on!
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited June 2004
    i have a napalm death one on my right arm, a doom one on my left arm, a class war skull on my shoulder and an unfinished (barely started) discharge one on my other shoulder
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited June 2004
    I also got a picture of death's head on my other shoulder. Looks a bit like my ex missus! The dragon looks like my mother-in-law.
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited June 2004
    heh heh this thread started out about thx's games room.
    then turned to missuses
    now tats :p
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited June 2004
    Well, my new "JAMMA" arcade cabinet arrvied today.

    Somewhere between crap and okay.

    IT works. :)

    There were no keys. :(

    I had to force the back off, which I did without damage, and then sawed the lock off.

    Coin mechanism wasn't working, but then I found the "test mode" switch, and set it to free play, all the diagnostics are fine, except there is no sound :( probably becuase there is no speaker, not one that I could see anyway, hopefully this can be addressed in the future.

    Problems with keys I expected, and coin slots too, so a bit dissapointing about the sound, but it could have been worse.

    Until I do fix the sound, I can alwasy run Pit Fighter on my Asian Megadrive, which is hooked up to a sub-woofer stereo speaker set.

    I shall post some pictures later.
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited June 2004
    Set my megadrive up on a PC table, with it's own tv and set of speakers;

    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thx1138/jp2.jpg

    another bookcase, you can just make out my new Quicshot Supervision on the top.

    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thx1138/jp3.jpg

    and the new arcade machine;

    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thx1138/jp1.jpg


    [ This Message was edited by: thx1138 on 2004-06-30 19:42 ]
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited July 2004
    just got this glass display cabinet salvaged from the local charity shop during a re-fit. Not in brand new condition, quite scratched, cost next to nothing though!

    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thx1138/glasscasea.JPG
    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thx1138/glasscaseb.JPG
    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thx1138/glasscasec.JPG
  • ZX BeccyZX Beccy
    edited July 2004
    On 2004-06-22 18:39, Alessandro Tommasi wrote:

    Is everybody around here married?!

    _________________

    [ This Message was edited by: Alessandro Tommasi on 2004-06-22 18:44 ]

    nah, but I'm always on the lookout for my next Ex. ;)

  • Alessandro TommasiAlessandro Tommasi
    edited July 2004
    Well, who isn't!

    (on the lookout, I mean, not your Ex)

    ;)
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited July 2004
    I'm not married. Currently on 4th engagement tho.
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  • stevensteven
    edited July 2004
    Glass cabinet looks good THX, I could do with one of those myself!
  • ZX BeccyZX Beccy
    edited July 2004
    Wow THX, I am SO jealous.... I wish I had a spare room that I could do that sort of thing too... I got an old Top of the Pops arcade machine in the lounge that I've gutted and am currently turning into a digital Jukebox, after that I want to make a tabletop mame cabinate.... My troubles room though... I can see in the not too distant future my living room is going to be tuned into a den, with a bar to boot... so it's not all bad ;)
  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited July 2004
    @THX

    It always amazes me how much stuff you've got :o

    I think it's a good thing that all of us can't come round to your room - you'd need a large bucket and mop to get rid of all the drool :D


    Not married here either, but I've been with Siouxsie for over 5 years, living with her for about 4 of that. And she's right into her Sega, Spectrum and to a certain extent Amiga aswell :D
    Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
    --Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)

    https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited August 2004
    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thx1138/augustgamesroom/

    updated pics, taken this morning
  • zeropolis79zeropolis79
    edited August 2004
    Looks good thx...
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited August 2004
    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thx1138/augustlast/DSCF0003.JPG
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited October 2004
    I've changed it all around again, after salvaging the top half of a pine dresser from a skip, and getting an office desk from a big clerance job in Milton Keynes.

    http://p223.ezboard.com/fgeesfootballchatfrm29.showMessage?topicID=1284.topic

  • DavidBDavidB
    edited October 2004
    Good collection indeed.... I remember using the Atari XL at the college I was at :)

    No one important.
  • CKayCKay
    edited October 2004
    Wow... looks amzing with all your monitors and machines on...

    I really like your glass cabinet with ye old calculators and stuff in :)
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited November 2004
    I got that for ?5 from a local charity shop, which was having a re-fit.
  • The Mighty DopethroneThe Mighty Dopethrone
    edited November 2004
    On 2004-06-23 00:46, karingal wrote:
    Marriage is a mistake I will not make twice...

    Marriage is a mistake that I will not make *once*.
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited November 2004
    :lol: me neither. Although I'm on my 4th engagement!
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited November 2004
    mrs.thx.............


    i love you :)

    happy aniversary

    [ This Message was edited by: thx1138 on 2004-11-01 20:38 ]
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