Achika and portnoyd's Game Room of Doomination

[portnoyd]

http://schwillz.com/ccdebt/index.html

It took 2 months, but here you go!

[Neil Koch]

Holy crap... VERY impressive.

I'm jealous. :D

[VACRMH]

1. That is the best damn idea ever with the shoe holders.

2. Nice to see my Miracle Piano cart in a good home :D

[PDorr3]

Very impressive room! I love the library wall.

[Cmtz]

I don't mean what I'm about to say. I'm just very jelous.


Damn, you guys suck. @_@

[Oobgarm]

That, sir and madam, is fucking disgusting. Disgusting meaning awesome, of course.

During the construction process, I remember you saying that it would make anyone who enters it sport wood. I believe it. If wood isn't present then your head has most likely exploded from the awesomeness.

I salute you both.

[ubersaurus]

I like how the name of the page is "credit card debt" LOL

That's incredible. Mostly because I have no fucking clue how long it possibly could have taken you to figure out a space-efficient way of displaying all that.

Is Star Trek V any good?

[PapaStu]

O

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ENORMIS

Heh, good luck on that PS collection Adrienne!!!!

And Port, thats just fuckin ENORMIS.

[mills]

:eek 2: @_@ :eek 2: @_@ :eek 2: @_@ :eek 2: @_@ :eek 2: @_@ :eek 2: @_@

[kainemaxwell]

That is mad impressive!! I commend you both!

[MegaDrive20XX]

:eek 2: *blink*

[heyricochet]

Do you ever have someone come in asking "Do you have?" and you cut them off and just say Yes. Yes we do.

[YoshiM]

Ho-ly shiznit! X_x

That is quite the collection. Very awesome.

[Pantechnicon]

This is one of the best collections I've ever seen. Seriously. You guys are a credit to the hobby.

[Six Switch]

yeah awesome room,i lika.

i might have missed out on the memo,but are you two an item?

[Aussie2B]

Wow... o_O I don't know how you'd even collect for a collection like that. Do you just buy anything and everything? I can't even really discern any personal tastes from it. It's just such a massive variety of stuff.

[GrayFox]

Holy mother of hell.

I want that Sonic 3 BANNER NOW! @_@

[davidbrit2]

Hmm, yes, I definitely see a prevalent motif trying to break through here. But it seems to be missing something. Perhaps you can try adding some video games.

[hezeuschrist]

If I had a room that size and a collection that size, I wouldn't even bother thinking I could jam it all in there.

Good show, good show.

[Promophile]

not bad, except the TV ;)

[imanerd0011]

WOW!!!
Portnoyd, I remember around a month ago you saying you would take pics, because you collection had really grown since the old pics on your website, but holy crap man, you weren't kidding! Definately one of the most insane collections I have ever seen online. I wouldn't even know where to start if I wanted to play a game. It must be nice.

[SoulBlazer]

Amazing work guys!

You may have to expand into a second room -- I'd move the smaller collections and the misc stuff into a second room to make more room in the 'main' room. Plus with the space freed up you could get a nice large HDTV in there to do your gaming on. :D

Still, I'm REALLY impressed. @_@

This is what happens, folks, when two nerds with huge collections get together. ;) :P

[poloplayr]

chest pains....chest pains...

[GarrettCRW]

It seems that you guys have so much stuff that it multiplies through sex... ;)

[NESaholic]

X_x Holy mac,what a great sight,can understand why it took some time,the NES collection makes me drool man!

[davidleeroth]

I'm available for adoption. :)

[miaandjohnrule]

I'm jealous as I'm sure everyone else is. I would love to have a collection 1/4 as good as that.. Just FUCKING AWESOME!! I still need some space to get my collection out from storage bins. Excellent work , A+

[hydr0x]

site appeares to be down :/

edit: great, found working url http://64.159.77.51/~schwillz/ccdebt/
edit2: heck, the pics ain't working :(

get your webspace up, i want to be impressed LOL

[digitalpress]

Outstanding job! Hopefully I can get over there and see it in person soon.

Don't forget to add your pics to the Room of Doom pages, you've got a site highlight going on there!

[Perkar]

awesome pictures, worth the load time for true. glad to know i helped add a few things to that room, even if it's only a random ass tshirt (mario plumbing if i remember) and a box for the genesis version of virtua fighter, and one thing i can't find in any of the pictures.... the jade empire water bottle! (of course, it's probably easy to miss somewhere in that monstrosity. heh)

[Chunky]

purely fucking yuck.

very nice. I had no clue you were coordinated enough to put up any kind of shelving. Thank god Achika knows how to use a drill.

[gamegirl79]

Wow. Just wow.

I could spend at least an entire day just looking at all the stuff in that room! :)

Awesome!!!

[captain nintendo]

mmmmm... I am in love with the CIB NES stuff :love:
(I am going for a complete CIB collection myself)

You should shoot me a list of your box and manual needs sometime. ;)

[TEND]

That is simply amazing, I doubt my collection will ever come anywhere near the awesomeness of yours. Definitely one of the best collections I've ever seen.

[s1lence]

WOW :eek 2: :eek 2: That is amazing!!!

[GrandAmChandler]

Dave that's great! A perfect example of what happens when 2 collectors join forces.

Did you have a ton of stuff that overlapped? (I.e. you had stuff Achika had, & Visa versa)

[den68]

damn! that is freakin' sweet.


hmmm, I wonder if I can convince my wife to let me convert our master bedroom to a gameroom?

[hydr0x]

wth, why does the site work for everyone but me?? the link you posted doesn't show anything at all (blabla not found), the one i posted loads but doesn't show any pics. If i copy a picture url and try to load it it says not found again :(

[qbertandernie]

im not jealous, but damn envious! i knew you guys had some shit, but damn!

one question...whats the sega 'cheata'? ive never heard of that

[orrimarrko]

Okay, I know I haven't been around as much since January, but clearly I'm missing something here.

Last time I knew, didn't Port live at home and his collection was stuffed in his room?

Am I crazy, or did I read that Achika lived in NYC with her boyfriend (NOT Port)?

When did all of this take place?

I feel like I've been on Safari for a few years...

Very cool, nonetheless!

When you have two collector junkies combine their hoards of cool shit - man, just look at the results!

Most excellent indeed.

Now I must find me a mistress with a similarly sized collection...

Peace,
Steve

[Dire 51]

I am seriously impressed... and also a tad envious. WOW!

[WanganRunner]

OMGWTFBBQ!!!

That's positively nuts, VERY nice collection. You've pretty much got every domestically-released videogame item I could ever ask for.

[hydr0x]

someone help me please, why can't i see those :(

[kainemaxwell]

Okay, I know I haven't been around as much since January, but clearly I'm missing something here.

Last time I knew, didn't Port live at home and his collection was stuffed in his room?

Am I crazy, or did I read that Achika lived in NYC with her boyfriend (NOT Port)?

When did all of this take place?

I feel like I've been on Safari for a few years...

Very cool, nonetheless!

When you have two collector junkies combine their hoards of cool shit - man, just look at the results!

Most excellent indeed.

Now I must find me a mistress with a similarly sized collection...

Peace,
Steve
I had an inkling of it when port replied about her sleeping behind him in some "what's behind you" topic over in Off-Topic a while back. *shrug

[Joker T]

Amazing collection :)

Love all the posters, standees and the fact that it is all so organized and clean.

BTW

The Futon is awesome :rocker:

[captain nintendo]

someone help me please, why can't i see those :(

Are you using Internet Explorer or what ?

(I can see them fine with IE)

[hydr0x]

someone help me please, why can't i see those :(

Are you using Internet Explorer or what ?

(I can see them fine with IE)

i tried with firefox and IE 6 :( i even tried to copy the image links to a download tool (flashget) which worked, and the download tool also couldn't find the files

and no, i don't have a firewall running :(

[hydr0x]

it looks like my ISP is not able to resolve the domain or whatever :(

if someone could download the pics and DCC them to me on IRC that would be great, if i'm not there just start, i've got auto-accept on :)

[kainemaxwell]

someone help me please, why can't i see those :(

Are you using Internet Explorer or what ?

(I can see them fine with IE)

i tried with firefox and IE 6 :( i even tried to copy the image links to a download tool (flashget) which worked, and the download tool also couldn't find the files

and no, i don't have a firewall running :(
Working fine for me on IE and Firefox.

[rbudrick]

Thank god Achika knows how to use a drill.

Uh huh huh huh huh.

I can't wait to get a house so I can get a my collection organized like that. Many have said I have more stuff in my room than they have in their houses.

Great job, guys! I'd hate to see a custody battle in a divorce...Christ. LOL LOL LOL

-Rob

[buttasuperb]

No arcade stuff = that collection is poop

hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

edit: wait, there's a supergun. BOOYAKASHA

[Achika]

Thanks everyone ^^

We had a bit of overlapping stuff, most of it is stored in our laundry room. Mostly the Genesis, NES were of course overlapping, but the rest were odds and ends; a few SNES here, a couple SMS there.

We've been dating for about a year, we finally moved into our place in mid July. As many of you know, I am a fiend for promotional material (and as Perkar pointed out, something is missing) I have buckets full of glasses, clocks, waterbottles, office supplies, etc. with game logos on them, I just need to sit down and figure out what can be displayed and where. Also missing are the GTA: Vice City standee that so many of you asked me about and my SC5 standee. We need to fish those out of my studio and see if we have the floor space (something tells me we probably won't...)

There *is* another gameroom in our house. It's in the basement, where we keep the arcade cabinets (haha butta.) We haven't worked on it much aside from getting the cabs in there, so I think that is why Port didn't show the pictures I took. So far we have a few redemption machines (some that will be set to free play so people can win prizes during our game nights) Blades of Steel, Dragon Spirit, Capcom Bowling, Neo Geo (2 slot, about 45 games though) and Xenophobe. We will probably put overflow promo-posters and the bigger stuff downstairs.

[orrimarrko]

As always - very cool.

[ubersaurus]

Needs more VIS

[syd]

That's quite an impressive collection. That 2 months must have been non stop to arrange all of that, it's really organized. Good job!

One question though: Do you play all of your games? :D

[hydr0x]

someone help me please, why can't i see those :(

Are you using Internet Explorer or what ?

(I can see them fine with IE)

i tried with firefox and IE 6 :( i even tried to copy the image links to a download tool (flashget) which worked, and the download tool also couldn't find the files

and no, i don't have a firewall running :(
Working fine for me on IE and Firefox.

yeah, i bet it's my ISPs fault (the domain is a weird one, you gotta admit that lol), so if i want to see them someone has to send them to me :/

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Uh... SEXY

That TV by the way.. is the 3 inches smaller and one year earlier version of the TV I'm about to go buy. I guess it's a good choice afterall.

[Ninja Blacksox]

Any desire that I had in collecting has now vanished.

Christ almighty, that is a pantload of stuff.

Congrats to you both.

-A Boy

[Aussie2B]

So far we have a few redemption machines (some that will be set to free play so people can win prizes during our game nights) Blades of Steel, Dragon Spirit, Capcom Bowling, Neo Geo (2 slot, about 45 games though) and Xenophobe.

Okay, NOW, I'm envious. O_O I'd kill for a Dragon Spirit arcade cab.

If you don't mind me asking, how old are the two of you? Did both of you amass a huge collection quickly, or was it just slowly growing over years and years?

I went through the whole collection combining myself when I hooked up with my boyfriend. However, he's not really a collector. He just buys whatever he's interested in playing. He doesn't get into the whole hunting thing, but sometimes he gets excited over the prospect of finding something great like a $1 Neo Geo AES or such. :P I can't recall how many games we had when we first got together when we were around 19 and 20, but now, four years later, we're over 600. Nothing compared to that collection, but it makes me curious how large our collection will be by the time I hit 30. o_O[/b]

[Aussie2B]

Doh, first time I've made a double post here (I think).

[portnoyd]

There *is* another gameroom in our house. It's in the basement, where we keep the arcade cabinets (haha butta.) We haven't worked on it much aside from getting the cabs in there, so I think that is why Port didn't show the pictures I took.

Yeah, It's totally functional, but I'm not happy with it enough to show it. I want to get appropriate carpeting (it's bare concrete), more machines, and better lighting. And that all requires money, which we just spent a lot of to get the game room where it's at. So we're in a cooldown phase of home decorating. :)

Individual replies...

@uber: Star Trek 5 sucks. There was a reason why it was quietly canned. But you'll be able to play it sometime down the road. And maybe, just maybe. More VIS.

@Aussie2B: Yes. I use a PDA to make sure I don't buy stuff I already have.

@DP: Going to put the pics into vgc.com/gallery tonight. Was too pooped to do anything after editing the pics down.

@captain nintendo: When I have money or trade stuff, I will do just that. :)

@grandmachandler: To elaborate on what Achi said, we have a master of list of whose stuff is whose. On complete collections, one stored their games while one displayed the complete set they had. But other systems, we wrote up the titles we supplied.

@qbertandernie: Ask nesman85 :) I got it from him. It's some sort of weird development tool... definitely prototype-ish. It stands for Chuck's Excellent Art Tool Animator. Very, very weird.

@Aussie2B (#2): I'm 26, she's 23. We both amassed over time, so points quickly, so points slowly. I'm not exactly sure when Achi started, but I started back in 1999.

Unless you're loaded, these collections don't just appear in a week's time. Just keep at it, and you'll see. Before I moved out, I did a comprehensive inventory of my stuff. I was expecting to just pass 2500 games. When I finished, I actually was 50 shy of 3000! @_@ Like I said... over time. ;)

Thanks for all the compliments!

dave

[Cmosfm]

O_O

That's amazing, absolutely amazing, I have never seen a collection so...astounding. I'm envious.

I assume ccdebt in the link title stands for credit card debt? ;)

[portnoyd]

O_O

That's amazing, absolutely amazing, I have never seen a collection so...astounding. I'm envious.

I assume ccdebt in the link title stands for credit card debt? ;)

It does, but in all fairness, I made that directory almost 4 years ago. I got wrangled in in college, and I haven't used them for games since then. Bad bad things they are. The only time I ever use them is for hotel stays (Hotels + debit cards = suck).

[Aussie2B]

I recommend tiles for the basement. I live in a basement apartment, and that's what we have for every room and hall. Between the fluctuating temperatures and potential for bugs, carpeting just isn't so great for a basement. Plus, once the city didn't maintain the street's pipes, so we had some flooding. It was just a thin layer of water, but we would've been in a world of hurt if we had carpeting. We just use large floor rugs where needed.

If I were you two, I'd just sell off the duplicate games. My boyfriend and I have gotten rid of nearly all of our duplicates. Well, unless you're worried that at some point you'll have to split up the collection. ;) You could put the extra money towards making your collection even huger, but judging by your young ages and the size of the collection, I'm guessing neither of you is at a want for cash. :P

[ianoid]

If I were you two, I'd just sell off the duplicate games. My boyfriend and I have gotten rid of nearly all of our duplicates.

On the contrary, I recommend a gaming pre-nup. Keep track of what is whos. Most relationships end, so there's no point pretending it's impossible. More importantly, since you guys seem destined to be together, it will be irrelevant, but could prevent even a small squabble.

"That's my NWC cart."

"No, that's mine!"

"Mine is the gold one!"

"No, yours is the grey one!"



Seriously, that is one of the best game rooms in the world, clearly. Needs more dog.

[orrimarrko]

@Aussie2B (#2): I'm 26, she's 23.

Alright - now I'm going to be sick.

I thought for sure that you guys were a little older than that.

Suddenly feeling much older than I used to... :eek 2:

Orri-

[hydr0x]

ok, thx to s1lence for sending me the pics, appreciated!!

i can only say WOW, you "guys" have an amazing collection, and you've got some really rare stuff in there (Blockbuster Champ Genesis :eek 2: ) and some nice ideas too

just a little note, i wouldn't place the snes stuff like that, i would "lay" the games, cause, those inner boxed don't hold the "downwards pressure" of a cart too well :/

amazing, just amazing :)

[qbertandernie]

i said before your stuff ios awesome, but damn? you have to have a boxed smash controller dont you? and mountain bike rally/speed racer?

ugh, man...id love to even see that stuff somewhere...

[TheSmirk]

Truly awesome collection you two! :D

Do my eyes deceive me?!? The NES collection is in ALPHABETICAL order ? :)

Great job!

[Videogamerdaryll]

WOW!!! Truly Awesome!!!

[Goblin]

I'm on sensory overload. I'm not sure what I would even want to look at first. I'd probably first drool, and then maybe soil myself.

It looks awesome.

[Spartacus]

The display case containing the rare things is really neat and the white thing one the wall with pockets for light guns and controllers is a great idea. It must give both of you a great feeling knowing you've preserved so much gaming history!

[Yamazaki]

reminds me too much of a child's room but otherwise thats a huuge collection you two have.

[McBacon]

Fantastic stuff, I may have to steal some ideas.

[Cauterize]

Fantastic stuff, I may have to steal some ideas.

Im gonna use your statement, and change "Ideas" to "Of the Goodies In There!"

Unbelievable!!!!! Gaming Bliss!