GamesRoomMaker
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Hi Guys, I know I've posted my purchases etc as I bought them, but I thought I'd make a topic where you see my full journey and I can then update it as I do stuff. Took a while to do this as the idea of just putting up pics of decorating etc wasn't appealing to me, need some fun stuff in there too lol. So here goes:
So first up is a picture of the room the day I moved in. The flat was owned by a friend of the family who passed away the previous year and the flat had only been set foot in to collect mail, so it was as it was when they lived here, in other words, a dump.
So when I moved in, a games room was not in mind in the slightest, I just wanted the place looking nice enough to live in. So I made this my bedroom to start with, nothing exciting here, I just thought I'd start at the beginning lol.
So, after living in my flat for a year, I thought I could change my spare room into a pool room after hearing from a friend that he had a slatebed pool table for sale. But after measuring it all out, it seems my spare room was not gonna be big enough, so I changed my spare room into my bedroom and moved the pool table into the bigger room, which is now called 'the game room' in my house.
I had a built in cupboard that was hindering the area for playing pool, so I took it down. Much to my dismay I found out the wooden flooring was only done up to a certain point within the cupboard. But I did think I would want to carpet the place so it wasn't a big deal.
So still making a pool room, but I wanted some cabs in it too, which was proving difficult due to space. But i thought i better decorate first anyway.
i then had my joiner friend level the flooring with ply wood as it was gonna be carpeted anyway.
Now some fun stuff, I had to get myself a cab to start the ball rolling. I'm not exactly the richest person so I was waiting on something I wanted and also something cheap, but working. So I got myself a Lethal Enforcers 2 for £80 off the forum. The guns were just generic Happ guns which were in poor condition, but it worked.
I had seen the proper guns for sale on ebay for £100 and couldn't justify getting them for that as they were just a luxury to me to have the proper guns. But by chance another seller was selling the guns, spare holsters and a spare pcb. I lost out on the bidding war and was not happy. But i got a message from the seller saying the person had let her down and wondered if I was still interested for my last bid of £40. So i jumped on that and got the proper guns.
i had to get a sparky friend of mine to change the connections on the guns as soeone had changed them to fit on something else, but it wasn't much of a hassle for him and i had them up and running in no time.
Now this is where my game room changed a lot. I saw this ebay ad and just fell in love.
I had it on my watch list, but I mainly wanted to see how much it was gonna go for. Thinking it was gonna be a ridiculous price and lying on my couch hungover while watching tv, i thought I'd put a bid in for it since it hadn't had one yet and i thought I'll be blown out the water in no time anyway so its harmless. Well, it seems that this machine was too big for a lot of people, a couple of bids came in for it, but I had bid £400. And just so you know, I didn't have £400 lol. So when it came down to it, I had won it for £340 and this when I started to stress out somewhat. i had been thinking about getting rid of my pool table because the room just wasn't big enough for it, especially since I wanted more than just a pool table in it. But now, it meant I had to sell the table. At this stage I'd like to mention that as it was a spur of the moment bid, I hadn't measured anything like my door or even looked at the dimensions of the cab. Yes, i am that stupid.
So I managed to sell my pool table quite quickly and gained some funds from overtime at work. The pool table money would basically cover the delivery of it as it was so big it had to be delivered on a pallet, so it wasn't cheap. heres my room looking empty as hell.
So when it finally came, which I had to delay for a couple of weeks for the delivery etc. The easy part was getting the screen & topper in the house.
The hard part was the actual sitdown cab part. I really had no idea how big this thing was. I knew it split in two parts, so I thought the body of it would come off if I unscrewed it all. It would have come off, but underneath is a solid body of wood, almost exactly the same size as the outer body. So there was no chance.
So I really thought i would have to resell it on the forum, i even posted a for sale topic on here. I was really down about it and just thought I had been very stupid and was gonna lose out on both money & sega rally machine to be proud of. But someone on here (can't remember who it was) suggested my window. I jumped off my couch and went to measure my window and it was gonna fit.... by 2cm. I tried to arrange a good few of my friends to help out carrying this thing to the back of my garden and then through a window. This is when you find out who your real friends are lol. I waiting two weeks to get enough people to come and help, during this time, it snowed. i was scared my machine would be ruined. As you can see above I put a tarp over it and at it was still on the pallet so it was off the ground at least. i managed to get it split into two, which wasn't easy, its connects in about three different ways. Then we started to get it moving and took my window out to get it in.
Honestly never lifted something so heavy in my life. I think Jeff Capes would have struggled. But its in and going nowhere ever again lol. Once inside I had to try and connect it all again. I had labelled all my wires beforehand so it was just a case of putting them all back, but there are over 20 wires, so it wasn't fun. The most nervous I've ever been was when I had to turn it all on for the first time, wishing and hoping it would work. But to my relief, it started up first time. (thats not me by the way, its a friend of mine who is actually good at this game)
Next up is a pastime I'm sure you are all familiar with.... moving stuff around. Below I tried to make the best of my space for other cabs, my retro game setup etc by moving the cab around. the below didn't work, my couch was right up against the thing.
But after much moving around like a one man Chuckle brother, I have decided this is the way its gonna be. More pics shortly.
So next up I had to finally decorate the walls with lining paper that I plan to paint soon. I'm thinking a deep blue. Heres my poo 60 year old mum helping me paper, I have no patience for papering, especially my old warped walls, no patterned paper for me or I'd be committed before i finished lol.
So this is basically how it looks just now until I buy paint. But i had to set it up as i had friends round at christmas time. Whats christmas without some arcades playing and a few rounds of goldeneye eh lol.
So I will update this topic as I go from now on. Any suggestions are most welcomed although I do have a plan in my head for everything, it does change quite often when I see something else i want in it lol.
Cheers Guys and hope you enjoyed my wee journey
So first up is a picture of the room the day I moved in. The flat was owned by a friend of the family who passed away the previous year and the flat had only been set foot in to collect mail, so it was as it was when they lived here, in other words, a dump.
So when I moved in, a games room was not in mind in the slightest, I just wanted the place looking nice enough to live in. So I made this my bedroom to start with, nothing exciting here, I just thought I'd start at the beginning lol.
So, after living in my flat for a year, I thought I could change my spare room into a pool room after hearing from a friend that he had a slatebed pool table for sale. But after measuring it all out, it seems my spare room was not gonna be big enough, so I changed my spare room into my bedroom and moved the pool table into the bigger room, which is now called 'the game room' in my house.
I had a built in cupboard that was hindering the area for playing pool, so I took it down. Much to my dismay I found out the wooden flooring was only done up to a certain point within the cupboard. But I did think I would want to carpet the place so it wasn't a big deal.
So still making a pool room, but I wanted some cabs in it too, which was proving difficult due to space. But i thought i better decorate first anyway.
i then had my joiner friend level the flooring with ply wood as it was gonna be carpeted anyway.
Now some fun stuff, I had to get myself a cab to start the ball rolling. I'm not exactly the richest person so I was waiting on something I wanted and also something cheap, but working. So I got myself a Lethal Enforcers 2 for £80 off the forum. The guns were just generic Happ guns which were in poor condition, but it worked.
I had seen the proper guns for sale on ebay for £100 and couldn't justify getting them for that as they were just a luxury to me to have the proper guns. But by chance another seller was selling the guns, spare holsters and a spare pcb. I lost out on the bidding war and was not happy. But i got a message from the seller saying the person had let her down and wondered if I was still interested for my last bid of £40. So i jumped on that and got the proper guns.
i had to get a sparky friend of mine to change the connections on the guns as soeone had changed them to fit on something else, but it wasn't much of a hassle for him and i had them up and running in no time.
Now this is where my game room changed a lot. I saw this ebay ad and just fell in love.
I had it on my watch list, but I mainly wanted to see how much it was gonna go for. Thinking it was gonna be a ridiculous price and lying on my couch hungover while watching tv, i thought I'd put a bid in for it since it hadn't had one yet and i thought I'll be blown out the water in no time anyway so its harmless. Well, it seems that this machine was too big for a lot of people, a couple of bids came in for it, but I had bid £400. And just so you know, I didn't have £400 lol. So when it came down to it, I had won it for £340 and this when I started to stress out somewhat. i had been thinking about getting rid of my pool table because the room just wasn't big enough for it, especially since I wanted more than just a pool table in it. But now, it meant I had to sell the table. At this stage I'd like to mention that as it was a spur of the moment bid, I hadn't measured anything like my door or even looked at the dimensions of the cab. Yes, i am that stupid.
So I managed to sell my pool table quite quickly and gained some funds from overtime at work. The pool table money would basically cover the delivery of it as it was so big it had to be delivered on a pallet, so it wasn't cheap. heres my room looking empty as hell.
So when it finally came, which I had to delay for a couple of weeks for the delivery etc. The easy part was getting the screen & topper in the house.
The hard part was the actual sitdown cab part. I really had no idea how big this thing was. I knew it split in two parts, so I thought the body of it would come off if I unscrewed it all. It would have come off, but underneath is a solid body of wood, almost exactly the same size as the outer body. So there was no chance.
So I really thought i would have to resell it on the forum, i even posted a for sale topic on here. I was really down about it and just thought I had been very stupid and was gonna lose out on both money & sega rally machine to be proud of. But someone on here (can't remember who it was) suggested my window. I jumped off my couch and went to measure my window and it was gonna fit.... by 2cm. I tried to arrange a good few of my friends to help out carrying this thing to the back of my garden and then through a window. This is when you find out who your real friends are lol. I waiting two weeks to get enough people to come and help, during this time, it snowed. i was scared my machine would be ruined. As you can see above I put a tarp over it and at it was still on the pallet so it was off the ground at least. i managed to get it split into two, which wasn't easy, its connects in about three different ways. Then we started to get it moving and took my window out to get it in.
Honestly never lifted something so heavy in my life. I think Jeff Capes would have struggled. But its in and going nowhere ever again lol. Once inside I had to try and connect it all again. I had labelled all my wires beforehand so it was just a case of putting them all back, but there are over 20 wires, so it wasn't fun. The most nervous I've ever been was when I had to turn it all on for the first time, wishing and hoping it would work. But to my relief, it started up first time. (thats not me by the way, its a friend of mine who is actually good at this game)
Next up is a pastime I'm sure you are all familiar with.... moving stuff around. Below I tried to make the best of my space for other cabs, my retro game setup etc by moving the cab around. the below didn't work, my couch was right up against the thing.
But after much moving around like a one man Chuckle brother, I have decided this is the way its gonna be. More pics shortly.
So next up I had to finally decorate the walls with lining paper that I plan to paint soon. I'm thinking a deep blue. Heres my poo 60 year old mum helping me paper, I have no patience for papering, especially my old warped walls, no patterned paper for me or I'd be committed before i finished lol.
So this is basically how it looks just now until I buy paint. But i had to set it up as i had friends round at christmas time. Whats christmas without some arcades playing and a few rounds of goldeneye eh lol.
So I will update this topic as I go from now on. Any suggestions are most welcomed although I do have a plan in my head for everything, it does change quite often when I see something else i want in it lol.
Cheers Guys and hope you enjoyed my wee journey
Rather Jelous LOL
