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The Anatomy of my game room: Complete with cat hair!
Virtualgirl \| 1:18 PM on 06.04.2007	38 comments

Another Random Post for me, this time, showing off my pride and joy, the game room! It was a ton of work, and pretty much the only thing we were looking for in a new house, but it turned out pretty sweet! The old room was wood paneling with railroad spikes all over the walls for some reason. My hubby won a high end projector in a contest not to long ago, so soon the TV will be on its way out and we will be using that instead! Other than that, we are going to build a custom entertainment stand to house the systems, as what we have is kinda a piece of crap right now...but let me know what you think!!!

The first view, complete with AV couch!

The Really Shitty Nintendo lamp I made, and the NES controller I made out of spray paint and foam core...lol

More randoms stuff...

The Tomb Raider Painting I did...I know, I am a freak...

My Pride and Joy, all my autographed stuff from GDC...

The Crappy drawing I attempted, and more random Tomb Raider Crap...

My action figures and drawings...the drawings took 3 days and 20+ sharpies to do!

I got Cloud and his Fenrir for christmas! Yeay!

My AOD bobble head and Tranny Lara action figure!

On to the game wall, I know, some of them are not in the right place, but we ran out of room in some of the shelves, we are working on more storage...

Piece of crap container for NES games (on its way out) and the awsome 80's board games we got on ebay!

These shelves are on their way out as well, but right now they house our PC games, 360 games, wii games and the titles we are currently playing!

My Nintendo project in its new home!

The Zelda picture I made out of a cardboard standup...

And last but not least- The beer fridge! Currently full of Stella and Leinenkugel's Honey Weiss...mmmmmmmmmm....

Thats it, the full tour! If you have any suggestions as well, let me know!!!!

If you want to see more pictures, or them closer up, check them out in my Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/gp/7770072@N03/81404z

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37 comments | showing # 1 to 37

Omega says:
(# 0) on 06/04/2007 13:21

Wow, that is really impressive. I love it.

Jordan Grim Devore says:
(# 1) on 06/04/2007 13:26

I wish I had a Dreamcast sign like that.

kakusei says:
(# 2) on 06/04/2007 13:29

Excellent. How I wish I could have my own room dedicated to games!

Justice says:
(# 3) on 06/04/2007 13:35

That's so cool!

Arro says:
(# 4) on 06/04/2007 13:36

So, do you ever play Tomb Raider? :p

Rainbowblack says:
(# 5) on 06/04/2007 13:40

MY LIFE SAVINGS FOR THAT ZELDA CUTOUT PICTURE YOU MADE!!!

I get mad when I see gamer rooms like yours, cause I think about all the crap I threw out over the years and say to myself.. "I could have had an awesome room a fraction as amazing as hers"

oh wells, awsome room

Virtualgirl says:
(# 6) on 06/04/2007 13:45

@ arro
Never, I hate lara croft...

Snaileb says:
(# 7) on 06/04/2007 13:45

This must be heaven....

tazarthayoot says:
(# 8) on 06/04/2007 13:46

Hey VirtualGirl, if you want it, I have one of those Neon XBOX360 signs that they gave to retail stores back when the 360 came out. I've been trying to figure out a way to use it in my gameroom, but with my current living standards it ain't happenin.

Virtualgirl says:
(# 9) on 06/04/2007 13:47

@tazarthayoot

WTF?!??!?! we have been looking for one of those!!!!!!!! how much would you like for it???

asator says:
(# 10) on 06/04/2007 13:49

stella hmmm
kewl room. strage how clean it is though

tazarthayoot says:
(# 11) on 06/04/2007 13:50

Dude, I got it for free. If you pay shipping, it's yours.

tazarthayoot says:
(# 12) on 06/04/2007 13:51

I have a Zune one as well if'n you want ;)

Niero says:
(# 13) on 06/04/2007 13:54

WHOA

Virtualgirl says:
(# 14) on 06/04/2007 13:54

for sure! PM me and we can figure out the details! you rock!!!!!!!

atheistium says:
(# 15) on 06/04/2007 13:59

Give me all your Lara figures :(

It's awesome! I want to visit :(

BlueWolf72 says:
(# 16) on 06/04/2007 14:04

all my stuff in is in my closet just dont have the time to put it all up like you did. Great inspiration tho so thanks

BritiniMartini says:
(# 17) on 06/04/2007 14:16

Will you adopt me? pwease :D I'll make cookies :P

Virtualgirl says:
(# 18) on 06/04/2007 14:17

@britini
what kinda cookies????

galagabug says:
(# 19) on 06/04/2007 14:44

wow. thats awsome! love the black and white hand drawings around the top of the room!

i rent my current apt b/c it has an extra room, that was going to be my game room. instead it houses all the boxes i never unpacked, a broken arcade cab, and my recycling :(

Virtualgirl says:
(# 20) on 06/04/2007 15:07

@galagabug

That is the one thing we are for sure missing, it is our mission to get an arcade cab in the room in the next few years. When we get a new house, our goal is to have a built in DDR pad in the floor...lol

galagabug says:
(# 21) on 06/04/2007 15:17

oh man, floor ddr would be good times!

my buddy just bought his first house, and we're mocking up a bar with built in arcade controls for mame goodness. i'll def be postin pics if/when we ever get started.

ekoala2002 says:
(# 22) on 06/04/2007 15:46

I love that room. When I move into my new house, I am totally going to get my game room up and running. I may steal a few ideas if that is ok.

tehdopefish says:
(# 23) on 06/04/2007 15:47

holy shit, that is h-core to the max.

i need to get a real job so i can afford sweet things like this.

Virtualgirl says:
(# 24) on 06/04/2007 16:00

@Ekoala

Imitation is the highest form of a complement!

ekoala2002 says:
(# 25) on 06/04/2007 16:05

Where did you get the signs that are on the wall hanging over your game shelves? I love the way that looks.

Virtualgirl says:
(# 26) on 06/04/2007 16:10

from a Game Crazy when It closed down, i used to work there so we got to raid it. Its not that hard to do large format printing at kinko's or something though, then you could laminate it or mount it on something!

mad cow says:
(# 27) on 06/04/2007 16:15

That room is nerdarific!

dv8withn8 says:
(# 28) on 06/04/2007 16:42

Who knew Ikea was so fashionable! I like the figures lined up around the ceiling. Nicely done!

Knives says:
(# 29) on 06/04/2007 17:34

Wow, that's great, I need to do something like that with my room.

Joe Burling says:
(# 30) on 06/04/2007 19:08

That's a seriously awesome room. And it even has Stella? You need to organize a party and invite me over. I can't make cookies very well at all, but my peanut butter fudge is the shiznit.

ekoala2002 says:
(# 31) on 06/04/2007 20:33

Can I post a link from my website. I want everyone to see this awesome room in it's glory. The whole 2 people who read my blog...LOL

Virtualgirl says:
(# 32) on 06/04/2007 21:44

@ekoala
Sure! go for it!

BritiniMartini says:
(# 33) on 06/05/2007 01:54

any kind you want :P

Virtualgirl says:
(# 34) on 06/05/2007 12:51

Correct answer, you win...

SLiFE says:
(# 35) on 06/05/2007 13:26

I want to lay that room down by the fire and make passionate yet gentle love to it.
The bar has been set pretty damn high. My hat is off to you.

Xeroflames says:
(# 36) on 06/29/2007 00:17

That..Is..BEUTIFUL.....I think i have a new dream now,

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