Rules for your Gameroom

[Streetball 21]

I'm just curious since I'm pretty sure mostly everyone has their own game room or "room of doom", what are your rules? For example, I dont like anyone with food or drink in my game room since there has been spilled soda in my game room. So what are everyone's rules?

[Gamereviewgod]

Break anything and die.

Strict but fair.

[Moon Patrol]

Touch my collection and die.

[QBert]

Well I just moved and am in the midst of setting up my game room. Finally! :)

I would say at this point I wouldn't really have any rules other than, don't F around.

oh, and maybe that Break anything and die thingy, that sonds good. ;)

[Lemmy Kilmister]

I dont like anyone with food or drink in my game room since there has been spilled soda in my game room.


Yup, Same here. I especially hate when people come into my gameroom with shoes on and muck up the place, though. Pisses me off.

[shvnsth]

do not leave games in the consoles

put game back on the shelf where they belong

wrap up your controllers

turn off the tv and receiver

no smoking

do not open sealed games without asking me first

if the controller is clear, don't use it, its my personal controller. clear blue for xbox/ps2, clear black for n64. no clears for gc or some of the older ones.

[Pantechnicon]

Since my room of doom makes me the coolest Dad on the block, my son's friends come in to hang out a lot. A few simple ground rules keep everything in line:

1. Have all the fun you can stand to have.
2. If you pick it up, put it back where you found it when you're done with it.
2a. If it's on a shelf higher than you, then I put it there for a reason i.e. - you're not supposed to touch it.
3. Clean hands before entering. Food and drink allowed at my discretion.
4. Cartridge-based consoles must be turned OFF before swapping games (I'm tellin ya...these kids today :shameful:)
5. I don't care how hard the game is...controller throwing is strictly forbidden.
6. Not taking fair turns with one another in a game is grounds for immediate dismissal of all kids for the rest of the day/week/whatever I feel like. You are responsible for each other's actions in this sense. If you can't play nicely in here then I've got something called a "yard" you can go play in instead.

Remember: they're not just rules. They're also good advice.

[Nesmaster]

Enter room and die.

there are a few exceptions from this rule :P

[Yamdasrd]

1. Before playing anything, ask.
2. No smoking.
3. No food or drink.
4. Wash hands before picking up a controller.
5. If anything becomes damaged, you must buy a replacement before being able to play again.
6. If you steal something I will have no problem causing physical harm to you.

My room slowly got rules added on to it one by one because of my older brother and his friends. It sucked coming home from a friend's house or from school to find my room a mess and smelling like a bar. The first ever rules were the no smoking and no food or drink.

[swlovinist]

1. People are allowed to visit my game room, as long as I am in close proximity of them so they dont have an opportunity to steal something

2. Ask before you touch

3. Food is allowed, but be a responsible adult and clean up

4. Once in the game room, things stay. This means if you donate an item to the game room, it is final. "Indian giving" will no longer be tolerated :roll:

[Xexyz]

Since I rarely invite anyone into my game room (I don;t have any friends that are really into gaming) I only have one rule, and it's for myself. That rule is:

No incomplete CD based games may take residence in my room!!!

[maxlords]

Damn. I'm lax as hell. I eat and drink in my game room all the time as does everyone else that visits it. All I ask is that you know how to handle things if you're going to handle them, and to not damage them. Course, I rarely have ANYONE over to my place, and those that do come over are usually hardcore gamers who already know how to handle stuff or at least have a healthy respect for it. I never have any kids in my house, nor would I let kids handle anything.

[Poofta!]

if you want to play anything cartridge based, you play it on a rom on the computer.

if you want to play a cd game, the basic rule is it better be the exact same way as you found it (put it back nicely, if you scratch you buy/die)

food/drink/smoking = sure. (all my games are in drawers or something, nothing out in the open, other than dvds and stuff on its way out.)

no little kids. ever.

[Haoie]

I don't have a room to exclusively show off my collection, and even if I did, I wouldn't have strict rules. Games are to be played, and not admired at from behind glass/plastic.

[SkiDragon]

Wash hands before playing. I follow the same rule. Ever see "The Aviator"?

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Man, buncha antisocial types in here. My game room rules are really the same as my house rules in general:

1. No smoking/chewing (as in tobacco).

2. Be nice to my pets.

3. If I say it's time to power down (i.e. in the event of a storm or something), it's time to power down.

4. Don't rewire anything.

I won't kill you if you want to play some games though. That's why they're there. I value my collection, but for cryin' out loud, it's a collection of games, and they're meant to be played.

[Pantechnicon]

Let me ask this out loud: A couple of you have brought up concerns about people stealing your stuff. Are you just being defensive or are you actually living in a situation where you have to put up with people of suspect character coming in proximity of your collection? I'm not saying you're wrong, but this mindset is somewhat alien to me. I suppose if you're still living at home or you have roommates with friends you don't trust then these situations are possibilities. It never occured to me that anybody would want to steal some or all of my collection. tha's all...

[Jasoco]

Two rules:

Enter in-expectant.

Leave impressed.

So far no one's broken the second one. 8-)

Also, I eat in here all the time. In fact, I'm doing it right now! AND drinking!

[-hellvin-]

I don't have any rules per se, but I hate it when people move things around or don't put things they've touched back how they were. I don't know why it pisses me off so much, but if someone doesn't put a dvd or something back in the exact place it was sitting, I go crazy. Weird little thing I've got =\.

[THATinkjar]

1. Don't touch anything (obviously).
2. Wash your hands before you don't touch anything.
3. Don't even contemplate touching a controller - I shall play for the both of us!
4. Walk slowly around the room.

Strict but fair :)

[Videogamerdaryll]

Using some of the replies..

No smoking:
If my mother in Law wants to sit in front of the Slot machines with a smoke I let her..but I set-up an ashtray and won't let no-one use the one on the slot machines themselves.
That's the only person I'll say yes to,..Though it hasn't happened yet.. x_x
Otherwise No Smoking in my Living Room/Game Room..

Food and Drink in Designated area..


Do not open sealed games without asking me first ..Yes,Agreed..

If I know you well(friend)you can play whatever you want and I'll let you hang out in my Game Room-House all day,even if I have to run errands.
My friends know to respect my stuff here..The only thing they can't seem to not do is put fingerprints/touch my cabs monitor screens. :/


No borrowing of games: this rule I enforce as people don't know how to return my stuff..

[bazariah]

im cool with people entering my room as long as they ask me first (i mean it is also my sleeping quarters, but that will change soon :D )

nobody is allowed to set up a console with out me being there first

nobody is allowed to touch my disc based stuff, i hate how people get finger prints or scratches on discs

i get my own personall controllers anybody else has to use the jank third party ones, until i feel they are competent enough to use officials

anybody can freely use the jamma cabs on condition that they dont go mad on the sticks and buttons and that they insert coins :D ooh and they are not allowed to bitch about the games installed at the time

[Daft Punk]

people who come over that know how to treat games correctly can do just about anything.


However there are a few that come over that cant seem to put ANYTHING back , they are not alowed to touch anything.

[Roi]

Ask before you do something!

[chadtower]

My biggest rule, one would think, is self evident, but it's SO NOT:

If a machine is open, don't stick your hands in there.

I can't tell you how many people I've had to save from themselves because they decided to start touching a charged arcade monitor. One person got a mild shock and was REALLY lucky. An inch or two more and that person's day would have been over.

[joshnickerson]

Standard vault rules apply, touch not, lest ye be touched.

[Mianrtcv]

My rules are pretty much similar to most.

Specifically

If beer touches floor. Clean floor.

If beer touches game, run.

No food, you're playing a game not eating dinner.

Non playing bystanders may feel free to shut the hell up!

Phone calls to my house for you while playing... let's just say the caller probably won't call back.

Get excited when warranted, freeze game due to over doing it. Expect to need medical attention asap.

Advice, if I want will be extracted on a request basis. Thinking out loud will yield less expensive controllers being hurled at high speeds (of course at the subject of the advice).

By no means a complete list.

PS
For god sake, take your empties to the sink. Do not make it an easter egg hunt.
also:
God help you if you leave half fulls.

[Gemini-Phoenix]

No entry! That goes for the occasional visiting insect as well (Where the rule "Touch and die" really does apply, and IS enforced!)

I don't care if it's my parents house - The room where I keep my stash is off limits to all but me. :-P

If I lend a game to my parents, then I expect it to be treated with care. I don't expect to go hunting for it, and I don't expect fingerprints all over the game / manual / box Etc...


I swear - I strike the fear of god to all who enter (Or live in) my house - Everyone knows who is boss, and if they step out of line by touching something they shouldn't... Well, let's just say there's no one who has tried! (Yet!)


Oh, sealed games STAY SEALED. No exceptions. If I ever caught anyone opening a sealed game, I would castrate them, and then rape them with a NES Zapper gun (If I had one) - Not necessarily in that order.

[mezrabad]

Good Topic.

Recently, my son has started having friends over to play. I suddenly realized that I actually did have rules and that his cretins, er, young friends didn't know them. Now they do.

The rules really only apply to these little visitors.

1. One may NOT take a disc out of the console and throw it on the floor. (other ignorant spawn do this, mine does not.) The corollary to this rule is: no one may touch the discs except for my son and I. This developed after I saw one of his friends nearly break a disc in half trying to get it out of the case.
2. One may NOT "surprise restart" a simultaneous multiplayer game (Super Monkey Ball, Krazy Karts etc,) just because one got a "bad start". It is unfair to the other players.
3. One may NOT spend a half-hour showing everyone "how cool" a game is, without giving the others a turn on it. (This led to the "no single player games" rule which is more of a guideline.)
4. One may NOT touch the (Sony WEGA Trinitron, High Def, 34" Flat Tube, Wide) TV screen. You have something you want to point out, use English words. (exceptions are made for non-English speakers)
5. One may NOT idly browse the memory cards. (this led to inexplicably deleted save games.)
6. Shirts must be worn, shoes should be removed. No food or drink in the TV area. No victory dances on the couch.

Break a rule and you have to do the Biorythms for every member of your family using the RCA Studio II.

NOBODY has broken a rule twice.

Sadly, none of my grown-up friends are too into video games. The few that have a slight interest usually see my MAME cab and say something like "does it have <insert fondly remembered game here>?" and then they get to enjoy playing it for 20 minutes or so. I really like it when that happens.

[NESVIDIOT]

A place for everything and everything in its place.
As much stuff as I have in my room, I know when anything is moved.... anything.
I don't just let anyone in my room, but there are a few people I totally trust in my room even without me. But only a very select few.
So far being very picky, I haven't had any disasters yet. I guess we'll see how well that goes when the time comes.

[Sothy]

Ass gas or grass noone plays for free.

[googlefest1]

if you want to play have clean hands - dont eat and play - keep the stuff clean

[bargora]

1. Be excellent to each other.*

2. Party on, dudes!

* I believe that this pretty much covers stuff like don't shit up the place, don't break the merch, etc.

[chadtower]

Oh yeah, mentioned above but not in my post. This rule applies to my entire property, not just my game room or my house:

No wounded soldiers. People leaving behind wounded soldiers will be chastised, made fun of, taunted, and made to drink the warm stuff.

[Jasoco]

6. shoes should be removed.Then don't ever invite me over. I don't take my shoes off for anyone. NO ONE. The shoes stay, or I go.

Wasn't there a Seinfeld episode revolving around this?

If I lived in Japan, they'd kick me out because I would never remove my shoes. Ever. NEVER EVER.

And no one can make me.

[ClubNinja]

I can't tell you how many people I've had to save from themselves because they decided to start touching a charged arcade monitor. One person got a mild shock and was REALLY lucky. An inch or two more and that person's day would have been over.

Holy crap man! Do I know this person? It's similar with me - I was swapping a monitor from one machine to another and a friend of mine nearly killed himself on the exposed monitor. Same guy was poking around way too much in an open cocktail so I had to ask him to stay in a different room. Unless everything is sealed up inside a cabinet, no one touches the arcade gear unless they're also educated in the stuff.

I also like it when people wash their hands first, but I'm flexible.


Then don't ever invite me over. I don't take my shoes off for anyone. NO ONE. The shoes stay, or I go.

You'll never be welcomed into my home, then. While I'd never force anyone to do so, I definitely prefer no shoes. Unless I know exactly where you've been stepping, I don't need it ground into my rugs and stamped into my floors. When visiting the homes of others, unless we're moving things in and out of the house, I never feel comfortable keeping my shoes on - even if they encourage it. Of course, I also wash my hands about 75 times a day, so what do I know?

[chadtower]

Holy crap man! Do I know this person?

No, it was an inlaw of mine, who left about 5 wounded soldiers that day too. Butthead.

[tritium]

wounded soldiers?


*edited for spelling

[Jumpman Jr.]

1) No touching anything on the shelves
2) Only one console can be hooked up at one time (that includes arcades)
3) No throwing controllers
4) Players must show their respect to Shigeru Miyamoto

[Gemini-Phoenix]

1. Be excellent to each other.*

2. Party on, dudes!

* I believe that this pretty much covers stuff like don't shit up the place, don't break the merch, etc.

I believe that that pretty much covers certain trademarked catch phrases! Lol! LOL

And now Keanu Reeves had grown up into Neo, he will kick your ass - Although he did go through a phase wher shooting hostages was acceptable... :/

[bargora]

wounded soldiers?


*edited for spelling
Those are abandoned partially-full containers of beer. Leaving a wounded soldier is what I would consider a low- to mid-grade party foul, the severity being increased if said wounded soldier is subsequently knocked over, liberating warm stale beer onto the floor.