room of doom 3.0 Finished!

[swlovinist]

Well my friends, it is about as good as it is going to get. After about a year, I have decided that I cannot wait any longer sharing my new room of doom 3.0. After converting a garage and putting alot of blood, sweat, and time into the collection, I now present my room. This is much bigger than my previous game room, and I thank all who have helped me get to where I am now. Some highlights include:

Complete US colllections of: Sega Master System, Sega CD(CIB), Sega 32X(CIB), Sega Genesis (missing only about 20 manuals), Nintendo 64(only about 10 manuals short of CIB), NES 8 bit(about 500 of them complete), Odyssey 2, game.com, Nuon, N-Gage(including Sega Rally and online exclusives), and RCA Studio II.

I have about 100 boxed consoles(some are variants) and about 5,500 different games, no dupes copies, or burns. This number does not include any computer or floppy games and multicarts are counted as one game.

Some oddball stuff that I have scored is a duel N-gage unit, a 3DO display, some great 3DO and N-gage promo stuff.

Enjoy the pics, and again thank you guys so much!

link:
http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj28/swlovinist/

[ecresto]

let me be the first to say that is f ing awesome . nice collection , im trying to have that someday . do you ever get the urge to sell it ....

[Cinder6]

Wow, that's amazing. Your pictures reminded me that I always thought the N64 had the best box ever (system box, that is).

[ncman071]

That is an absolutely amazing collection. I want to ask you, how did you do it? How long have you been collecting? Are you rich? Anyway, I thought I had a decent collection but you have now humbled me for sure. I own around 14 systems and barely a fraction of the amount of games that you do. I have somewhere around 360 games, but 114 of those are for the snes.

[swlovinist]

I have been collecting for about 13 years seriously. I just got collecting at the right place at the right time. I networked, did my homework with lots of research, and no I am far from rich(I make about 30K a year as a counselor and my wife is one too). The most crazy thing is that I almost entirely got all this stuff "in the wild" and not off of ebay. Only some of the crazy rare stuff. One thing is for certain....going to game conventions helps alot.

[Blitzwing256]

you definatly get brownie points for the ngage stuff being displayed and not shoved in a dark corner like 90% of other people who collect for it :-) (I proudly display mine with the gameboy stuff)

[winniethepujols]

That looks spectacular! I love how games look when they all have their cases and are lined up like that. The repeating patterns of the box art is visually appealing.

I get really strong emotions when I look at game displays like yours. Such a large span of years and decades crammed into that such a small area. It's really quite the spectacle!

And yeah, I'm sure those last couple of paragraphs sounded maybe weird/awkward, but... whatever. Nice room! :rocker:

[Dreamc@sting]

Your Sega wall seriously just made me cry

[y-bot]

Wow John, that is completely ridiculous. Now I don't feel so bad about how much stuff I have. I just moved two carloads from my storage unit to my work today. I'm trying to put all of my collection in one place for the first time in a long time. When can I come over so we can have a Studio 2 tournament?

y-bot

[swlovinist]

Toby, you are welcome over here ANYTIME. Heck if we are going to have an RCA Studio II tourney, we might as well have one for Channel F, and Odyssey. Thanks for the nice comments people. It has been alot of work.

[DJ Daishi]

lol, and here I thought I was the only one that got a Game.com!...worst handheld ever! yes, worse than N-Gage!

[Streetball 21]

Man, your Nintendo wall is awesome. I'll ask you this, which is your favorite system lol?

[otaku]

very nice man, congrats! I envy you I don't have the time or money for something like that my game room is my bedroom with a tv and my consoles. I never own more than 20 games at a time I sell/trade alot to fund my habit.

Someday i'd love to have a huge collection complete with arcade cabs and all that good stuff (pool air hockey etc oh and pinball)

[swlovinist]

favorite console of all time? Tough one. For classic I would say 2600, For Neo Classic I would say Genesis, and for Current I would say Playstation 2. For my favorite bizarre system I would have to say Astrocade.

[CreamSoda]

swlovinist, you have an AWESOME collection I can only hope to someday have a setup(and the space to put it all) like this someday. :)

[jcalder8]

That is quite an amazing collection and I only have 2 questions:

1. How often do you play the games?

2. What is the item you are most proud to have?(rarity, value, sentimental... whatever)

[murdoc rose]

first off awesome but im sure you know that. On thing that really impressed me is the game gear stuff that has to be the most game gear games I've ever seen in one spot.

[swlovinist]

That is quite an amazing collection and I only have 2 questions:

1. How often do you play the games?

2. What is the item you are most proud to have?(rarity, value, sentimental... whatever)


1. I play when I can. I am happily married and work full time. I go from playing my DS in the bedroom at night to sometimes going on the 360 and playing various games. I often invite some buddies over and play some retro and laugh at bad FMV games.

3. Item most proud of is my White Astrocade. As for Rarity I do have a boxed Intellivision basic Cart with cassette and book(R10). My most sentimental is the Sega Master System games from my home town with the rental stickers still on them(I always keep the ones with the locations on them). Value wise, it would probably have to be my Stadium Events for a single cart. I have many oddball items in my collection from a signed import copy of D for 3DO, 3DO logo little bean bags, to a boxed Memorex VIS system.

[dcescott]

Ya know reading the last post, I don't take off those rental stickers either. It's like a suitcase that's been places, or one location for that matter. I take that back, I do try to remove the stupid paper stickers from Gamestop, those are eyesores. But I have games from all over the US, sticker wise.
Nice room! I'm planning to convert part of my garage in the next month. It won't be as filled as yours but I'll be using the space as my studio/getaway/escape pod. My laptop, stereo, record player and TV will hooked up to one receiver with a subwoofer and 12" speakers suspended. I am married and have two girls to raise. I need a man lair to retreat to sometimes. NES and Xbox are my faves.

[thetoxicone]

Ya know reading the last post, I don't take off those rental stickers either.

The only one I've kept on a cart is a NES version of Untouchables from a rental place that closed probably not long after that game came out and was my favorite rental location, I found it a few months back at a pawn shop, but otherwise the stickers have to be removed.

[dcescott]

It gives the cart character to expand on that thought. But those pesky Gamestop used stickers, I hate em.

[Lerxstnj]

Are those bottles of hot sauce to the left of the Vectrex?

[boatofcar]

Holy cow. I'm always amazed when I see these collections. Any plans to add an arcade cab or pinball machine?

[swlovinist]

Are those bottles of hot sauce to the left of the Vectrex?

To answer some other questions:

Yes they are hot sauce bottles. The hot sauce that Billy Mitchell makes. They are from the following conventions.

CGE 2K4 #28 of 72 SIGNED
Northwest Classic Gaming Expo 2K6 #3 of 24
CGE 2K7 #35 of 50

I also plan to add an arcade machine, but as you can see my space is kind of limited.

[DigitalSpace]

Very nice! I especially like how you organized the Sega wall.



Northwest Classic Gaming Expo 2K6 #3 of 24

I got #10 of 24 there, and still have it. It's probably the most interesting non-game item in my collection by far.

[Greg2600]

That is one of the most well displayed, and organized room of doom I've seen. I'm all about organization, without it we are lost! Does it get cold in that garage?

PS: I have kept one sticker on the back of a Genesis game, because it bears a long closed rental store in my town (the store stunk though). Otherwise, I get out the hair/blow dryer to pull the label off and Goo Gone to take off the residue.

[MeTmKnice]

That is a beautiful room, I one day am going to be doing something similar. I do not have quite as much stuff, but some rarities I do have. Way to go!

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

That's pretty epic stuff Swlovinist!

I keep most of my stuff in neatly organized boxes and plastic tubs ... I wonder what it would look like if I dedicated a room to it.