Finally my room of doom is complete!

[Darren870]

Well rooms, since the room of doom section is down I figured I would just host it on my site. I wanted to show this off bad since I've been working on this for a while now. Please input is always great and I hope you all enjoy it.

Always feel free to ask questions I will gladly answer :)

<a href = "http://students.rwu.edu/dfrickel920/Collectiion/collection.htm">LINK</a>

and yes if you click on a picture you get a bigger image just like the section on the site.

[theMot]

Good Stuff, need some bigger pictures though O_O

[jcalder8]

That looks pretty cool, I wish I had some way to organize my games... I agree with theMot bigger pics would have been great.

[InsaneDavid]

The pictures are fine, open them in a new tab or enlarge the window as the popup windows don't show the full image.

Very nice setup, nice and organized but not museum looking. :D I still can't understand how you guys can find superguns at thrift stores and flea markets. LOL

[tom]

Very nice and colourful. Excellent.

[jajaja]

Very nice indeed! :)

[Cambot]

Very impressive.

Sadly, no matter how many games I get, this is never to be. Let those of us living with spouses/significant others huddle and nurse our wounded pride.

[boatofcar]

Looks nice! Do you keep your games inside their boxes? I know I'm always afraid of accidentally ripping my NES boxes when I take the games out, so I store them separately.

[cyberfluxor]

Good job! The room looks great and well designed. I'm still amazed how so many of you have cartridge collections boxed and all because that's one of the toughtest things to get for me. I currently only have around 25 boxed games, most of which are Genesis titles. Hope everything is within your grasp of playing and others love it!

[Darren870]

im going to enlarge the picture window now since that seems to be the general complaint. (not in a bad way)

I keep all the NES games in the boxes actually. Reason being ill just play em on my xbox or I have a extra cart of the ones I really like to play. You can't see the shelf as its behind the dragon quest VIII standee.

[keiblerfan69]

Nice Stuff. Do you have enough TVs?

[Darren870]

okay all the pictures are enlarged.

You would be suprised though, when I used to have big halo - halo 2 matches at my house every tv would be used. We would go online and play big team battle with 8 of us. Or have 5 vs 5 matches or sometimes even 8 vs 8.

I've got 5 xboxs alone for that reason.

[Captain Qb]

Nice collection indeed,..
You got lot's of TV's.. ^.^

And I think that you can't never finish your Room of Doom.. -.-

[Trebuken]

Is that the Sony SXRD 1080P?

If it is, how dreamy is gameing on it???

Been looking at that TV, my sister just got a 50", but has not received it yet.

Later,
Trebuken

[alec006]

Very Nice and all together,great job man.

[keiblerfan69]

okay all the pictures are enlarged.

You would be suprised though, when I used to have big halo - halo 2 matches at my house every tv would be used. We would go online and play big team battle with 8 of us. Or have 5 vs 5 matches or sometimes even 8 vs 8.

I've got 5 xboxs alone for that reason.

There is nothing wrong with that. Infact that rules. I did have 3 tvs in my room but they were just there because I didn't have a system selector.

[dbiersdorf]

That's a sweet ass setup.

I thought it was funny that you have Xbox in the classics room. :D

[Darren870]

I think the sony tv is the step down from that one you mentioned (the model before that) We won it in a raffle hehe...lucky I know.

Yea the xbox's are in there for halo only or other co-op games where we dont want each other looking at the screens. One is modded and on isnt.

5 in total 2 are modded.

I wonder if it would be hard to get a candy cab up the stairs into my rooms. Thats the only thing stopping me from buying one.

[Raedon]

very nice! only thing is the redundant huge boxes.

[Darren870]

Hehe i like the boxes, i assume you are talking about the display boxes.

IDK i latch on to things easily and some of these are my favorite.

[smokehouse]

Not to be a rude ass but do you still live at home? If so where do you get the funding to purchase all of that? You have well over $20K worth of stuff and if you’re young you’re either wealthy or hit it big on a scratch off ticket.

[Darren870]

Not to be a rude ass but do you still live at home? If so where do you get the funding to purchase all of that? You have well over $20K worth of stuff and if you’re young you’re either wealthy or hit it big on a scratch off ticket.

Im only 20 and am going through college right now. So I mostly live at school and go home for breaks. Summer and winter. I work about 36-40 hrs a week, pay car insurance, pay my car off, as well as other bills I have (not including school).

Im not going to go into how much money I make a week, as i don't think thats right. Lets just say I've been working hard since I turned 13 and it pays off as you can see.

Ill probably move out when im 22-23, have a steady job and done with college

[ClubNinja]

Not to be a rude ass but do you still live at home? If so where do you get the funding to purchase all of that? You have well over $20K worth of stuff and if you’re young you’re either wealthy or hit it big on a scratch off ticket.

Dude. You should've seen my console collection when I was 18, living at home, and only working during the summers. Hard work, saving when appropriate, buying low, selling high, and making big trades can get anybody there. In fact, it's the best time collect anything. Once you get out into the real world and make the big bucks, you find that said big bucks disappear into mortgage and bills before your collecting habits even get a taste of the cash.

[Darren870]

Not to be a rude ass but do you still live at home? If so where do you get the funding to purchase all of that? You have well over $20K worth of stuff and if you’re young you’re either wealthy or hit it big on a scratch off ticket.

Dude. You should've seen my console collection when I was 18, living at home, and only working during the summers. Hard work, saving when appropriate, buying low, selling high, and making big trades can get anybody there. In fact, it's the best time collect anything. Once you get out into the real world and make the big bucks, you find that said big bucks disappear into mortgage and bills before your collecting habits even get a taste of the cash.

Exactly, I still plan on doing this when I get older but have had to cut down a quite bit on buying since i pay over $500 a month on car bills. Otherwise It would be larger :-P

[§ Gideon §]

Your room is the most fun-looking room I've seen in a while. I'm shits and giggles just looking at it.

[blissfulnoise]

Just measure your stairway before looking to purchase an arcade. Getting it upstairs isn't an issue if you have a few friends willing to help.

Just rent an appliance dolly (hand-truck) from a local U-Haul and sweat a little.

All in all, that's a nice collection. You should feel proud. But it's certainly not ostentatious enough to warrant the 'where do you get the money?' posts.

[smokehouse]

Not to be a rude ass but do you still live at home? If so where do you get the funding to purchase all of that? You have well over $20K worth of stuff and if you’re young you’re either wealthy or hit it big on a scratch off ticket.

Im only 20 and am going through college right now. So I mostly live at school and go home for breaks. Summer and winter. I work about 36-40 hrs a week, pay car insurance, pay my car off, as well as other bills I have (not including school).

Im not going to go into how much money I make a week, as i don't think thats right. Lets just say I've been working hard since I turned 13 and it pays off as you can see.

Ill probably move out when im 22-23, have a steady job and done with college

I wasn’t trying to offend nor am I asking how much money you make. I just come from a different world. As soon as I hit 13 I was working on farms, at 16 I was working 28-30hrs/week and going to school. In 1994 my weekly checks might have been $90/week. There was no way I could have ever afforded anything close to that, that’s why I asked. I just don’t know any 20 year old with a collection/system as extensive as yours that didn’t get some help somewhere along the line. Unless you luck out with an amazing job, the average 18 year old who goes to school doesn't make enough to afford things like that.

I was just curious. And I must say it is a nice collection of stuff, congrats. It had to take some time to get all of that up and organized.

[smokehouse]

All in all, that's a nice collection. You should feel proud. But it's certainly not ostentatious enough to warrant the 'where do you get the money?' posts.

Are you kidding me? What common kid around 20 has the disposable income to spend well over $10,000 on video games? When I was 18 I was trying to pay my rent, not buying rear projection big screen TV’s and displaying a game collection. That kind of wealth is not common my friend. I do not know a single person in my personal life that had that kind of disposable income at that age.

You can say “hard work” all you want but no job that pays what 99% of high school jobs pay is going to fund such purchases. This guy had to have a good job or some inside funds, that’s all I was saying.

[blissfulnoise]

I'm going to thread de-rail here, but this has been boiling in my brain for awhile now.

No Smokehouse, they typically don't. But this is the same situation as the one I was in with my local EB Games last week. Kid walks in and asks for an application while I'm chatting with the sales guy about some games while I'm picking up my copy of MGS3:S:LE.

Conversation shifts to cars. This 16 year old kid mentions he has a 2004 Mustang that he's had some extensive work done on. Naturally, the first words out of my mouth are "why do you need a job?".

Personally, I fell somewhere in the middle of this. My first car was a 1989 Thunderbird that was a hand down from my mother and father. My second car was a 1985 Dodge Aires that was bought after the Thunderbird was wrecked (my brother and I split the pay-out as he was just turning driving age).

My parents always bought my brother and I video games and the like, a game or two every other week normally. We always pawned (this was before game stores really had "trade in" systems) the old generation stuff to move up to the next gen. I imagine that was pretty common.

We weren't rich by any standard, but I was taken care of. I had my first job at 14 working at a local rec center. By 16 I was in McDonalds, and hopped jobs through college until I started my tech career. I paid for what goodies I had with work money and what was left over from Uncle Sam after paying tuition. My priority at this time was to move out instead of acquiring material goods. This had nothing to do with family life, just a personal drive to live independently.

The reality of the situation is that some kids are going to be well funded by well funded parents. Can you blame the kids for this? Should they refuse that big screen TV on moral principle? There's nothing wrong with enjoying wealth, second hand or not.

You're never going to get around the haves and have-nots. It can be particularly frustrating when dealing with collectors; kids, young adults (and, ahem, "adults") that live at home and can spend whatever income they have (parents, jobs, Stratford loans :D) on their passions. Cars, games, booze, whatever. Those of us out there with mortgages, car payments, utility bills, kids, and fuck all else are operating at a different level.

But the way I see it, these kids should enjoy it while they can as long as their aware of the real-world responsibilities they'll need to inherit. Some will go on, get jobs, and become upstanding members of the middle-class/upper-class community. Others will live on daddy's play check indefinitely. And still others will mooch off of their hard-working parents because they lack the initiative to stake their own place in the world. Sadly, the third option is becoming the most common these days.

I, personally, abhor twenty-somethings that don't work or work full/part time, do not go to school, and live at home. I imagine that feeling isn't not uncommon either. If you fall in that category (Darren870, as a college student, does not apply here), and you're showing off a collection as something to be proud of, then shame on you. Be an adult, sell your stuff, and start to live on your own. If you have extenuating circumstances at home like taking care of sick family members, then, obviously, that's fine. But otherwise, "Man up Nancy", and stop living like the lowest form of life.

But to answer you more directly Smokehouse, it's certainly reasonable for a 20 year old in college to have stuff like that. Even if daddy isn't fronting the checks, or being earned through hard work, then it can easily be acquired by the most American of methods, debt.

I don't know exactly what Darren's situation is, and frankly it's none of our business. There's no need for sour grapes either. I was living completely independently at 21 and I purchased my first home at 24. It's not so hard to believe that a 18-20 year old can get a job making enough money to purchase nice things without "inside funds".

[smokehouse]

Like I was saying above, I was not trying to imply that Darren870 was a bum or mooch or anything like that, I was just wondering if he had help along the way. I have a lot of respect for people who work hard, yes even teens (har, har). Freeloaders disgust me as well but it doesn’t seem he is one. I guess I was trying to feel him out before handing out any compliments.

[Darren870]

Not to be a rude ass but do you still live at home? If so where do you get the funding to purchase all of that? You have well over $20K worth of stuff and if you’re young you’re either wealthy or hit it big on a scratch off ticket.

Im only 20 and am going through college right now. So I mostly live at school and go home for breaks. Summer and winter. I work about 36-40 hrs a week, pay car insurance, pay my car off, as well as other bills I have (not including school).

Im not going to go into how much money I make a week, as i don't think thats right. Lets just say I've been working hard since I turned 13 and it pays off as you can see.

Ill probably move out when im 22-23, have a steady job and done with college

I wasn’t trying to offend nor am I asking how much money you make. I just come from a different world. As soon as I hit 13 I was working on farms, at 16 I was working 28-30hrs/week and going to school. In 1994 my weekly checks might have been $90/week. There was no way I could have ever afforded anything close to that, that’s why I asked. I just don’t know any 20 year old with a collection/system as extensive as yours that didn’t get some help somewhere along the line. Unless you luck out with an amazing job, the average 18 year old who goes to school doesn't make enough to afford things like that.

I was just curious. And I must say it is a nice collection of stuff, congrats. It had to take some time to get all of that up and organized.

I wasn't taking any offense to what you said at all, and believe me i've been asked the question so many times as all my college friends are like, how do you have so much money? As the typical college kid is broke.

I was basically brought up as a kid as "screw corprate" and get as many deals and you can and don't take no for answer. As thats my dads moto. The 60 inch tv was LUCK that we won that in a raffle i wouldn't have that if it wasnt for that. The 32 inch tv i got for $300 because of circuit city messing up big time and they wanted to fix what they did.

Yada yada yada, anyways

I started working at 13 at a gas station making minimum wage, quit that fast. Worked as a landscaper for 5 years making good money and working overtime. Worked EB games also during HS working 44+ hrs a week. Worked IT at a company and made good money there.

Im not going to say my parents don't throw me money here and there. However, its a small amount and usually goes towards gas. They havn't bought a game for me since n64 (besides an xmas gift)

If you work hard and know where to look you can make over $11 an hr, in my area atleast. Don't forget though, this is like my only hobby. I don't collect guns like you do, don't have any intrests in cars, and don't have the big bills yet. Though I do have a g/f so i spoil her sometimes.

And don't forget one mans junk is another treasure. You may not have the time for it, but if i see someone throwing out something good its going on ebay.

Anyways yea..guess thats it. I don't mind talking about it, i just have friends whose parents buy them everything and they have never worked a day in there life. Thats someone I am NOT as my parents would never fund any of this. My dad thinks its the biggest waste of $. Yet he has his own wine collection.

[Trebuken]

I work retail. Everyday I work with people who get paid from ^4 an hour to $18 (plus lots of OT). The majority of $6 hr folks deserve no more than that, they believe they would work harder if they were paid more. The reality is they are not paid more because they will not work harder. Some of the higher paid folks are paid more through seniority, but the reality is most of them earnes it, and have been promoted to positions that pay more.

There is a worl of difference between $8 hr and $12 hr. It is not appreciable until you've gotten the raise. It changes your life...that's about the change many of them would see if they worked hard and got the promotion, but they are not willing to do the work...

Good for you for making money (assuming Uncle Bob did not give you a $13 hr job at his contracting company or something). You earn it, spend it.

Debt? The American way? So? ood for us. There's a National Debt that dwarfs consumer debt...it's rather trivial actually. Debt is money we owe to ourselves...I do not believe we owe any nation anything, with room for exceptions.

Still a great TV, even of it is last years model...I'm gonna' get a big one soon enough...won't fit in my room of Doom though :(

Later,
Trebuken

[smokehouse]

Darren870,

Good for you buddy, you work hard and have found some deals along the way. You have a great collection there and it’s something to be proud of.

[Darren870]

Darren870,

Good for you buddy, you work hard and have found some deals along the way. You have a great collection there and it’s something to be proud of.

Thanks man, it means a lot trust me. Good luck with your new gun.

[Joker T]

Wow, I really like your room.

Looks like an awesome place to hang out.

Job well done.

[Darren870]

Just measure your stairway before looking to purchase an arcade. Getting it upstairs isn't an issue if you have a few friends willing to help.

Just rent an appliance dolly (hand-truck) from a local U-Haul and sweat a little.

All in all, that's a nice collection. You should feel proud. But it's certainly not ostentatious enough to warrant the 'where do you get the money?' posts.

I think the big issue was the weight, Could a upstairs floor suport a candycab? I think thats the biggest question.


Wow, I really like your room.

Looks like an awesome place to hang out.

Job well done.

Yea now if more people lived in my area I could get some real gaming going. Unfortunatly not to many of my friends like fighting games, so I my neo stuff gets used solo :(