Post your Gaming Setups

[Pikman]

fragmaster is absolutely right. I enjoyed gaming the most sat at a desk in my bedroom playing games on a 14 inch portable.

Now I play games in progressive scan on a top of the range dolby digital widescreen TV with the audio signal running through ?12K worth of hi-fi - but I don't enjoy them all the more for it.

Admittedly this is largely because I'm a a little older now and gaming plays a much smaller part in my life, but my point is enjoying games is all about enthusiasm and passion - not the equipment you play on.

[Kaladron]

Who cares about the size of your telly when you have two GameCubes and a Viewtiful Joe poster?

[RLench]

Agreed...

As long as you are happy with what you have, who gives a **** what anyone else thinks? There's normally two sides to every argument but not with this one, IMHO. And anyone who says differently is a complete and utter arsehole

[Inertia_]

Thought I'd finally succumb:







That PC in the third pic's one I built for a friend - the room's not that cramped.

[anephric]

I have 2 gaming setups: one upstairs and one downstairs. The upstairs looks like a bomb hit it: my Neo, Saturn, N64, Dreamcast, Megadrive/MegaCd, Gamecube, SNES and PC live up there, along with my handhelds. 29" Panny tv with Dolby Surround.

The PS2, Xbox and (second) N64 live downstairs with my 36" Toshiba WS tv. All my PS2 dancemat and karaoke gubbins lives there as well. Dolby 5.1 down there.

I fully appreciate this is excessive. And some sort of 15-year-old's masturbatory fantasy. I'm a 30-year-old man, tho, so it's a little lame.

[Commander Marklar]

Let's see if I can get all these in one post >_< Three pictures are of the front room, where most all the gaming takes place. This is MY room Everything is dumped all over the place, hardware wise, although the consoles are all hidden by Ninja-stealth techniques. Games are on shelves, in boxes and the desk.

The other picture is in the living room, which is also a dump 'cos there are baby things all over the place but there you go. This is where the missus plays her games, mostly. She's playing Fable at the mo and loving every minute of it.

There is another set-up up stairs which just has a cube on a little 14" TV, but that's not very interesting so I didn't bother with that.

[Pikman]

Commander Marklar, that second photo looks like an extremely-well stocked videogame store. Just how many games do you own?

[Commander Marklar]

There are just over 400 in my database but that doesn't include many, many titles I can't be arsed to put in (most of which are in those boxes...). The DB only tends to have titles I've had pass through my hands while I've been sat in front of a computer

It is very well packed though. The side of the chimney is about a foot deep, the shelf about two-thirds of that -- there are all kinds of things behind the unit, mostly boxes to controllers and stuff. It all kind of gets rotated, older stuff goes into boxes in the corner, stacked in any available space and the shelf refilled I need to do this again 'cos various games have spilled over again (hence the Xbox game on the monitor).


edit: That's Richard Burns on the plasma.

[Ratso]

I have a specific games room that my girlfriend joins me in occasionally for watching movies on DVD or the odd games session.

32" Philips flat widescreen TV
RGB SCART switchbox
Acoustic Solutions digital 5.1 sound system
CD player and amp separates
Sony stereo speakers
Sony VCR

PAL Xbox * Advanced RGB SCART * Ixos toslink optical output * DVD remote
Chipped PAL PS2 * RGB SCART * Ixos toslink optical output
PAL Gamecube (with Freeloader) * RGB SCART
GameBoy player
PAL Dreamcast (with DC-X) * RGB SCART
Chipped PAL PlayStation * RGB SCART
PAL PlayStation * RGB SCART
Modded PAL Saturn * RGB SCART
PAL Saturn * RGB SCART
PAL N64 * S-VHS through SCART adaptor
PAL SNES * S-VHS through SCART adaptor
PAL MegaDrive * RGB SCART
GBA SP
PC from 2000 (800MHz, 384MB RAM, Nvidia TNT2 32MB graphics card) * to be upgraded to a modern beast early in 2005
Amiga 1200HD * RGB SCART

Plus of course loads of CDs and DVDs and the below games collection.

http://users.ign.com/collection/Ratso2004

[Mad Gear]

I like the child walker thingy Marklar, i can just imagine you in that stomping around on Steel Batalion

[anephric]

Your second pic looks almost exactly like my upstairs room, CM. Except I have a curtained corner where all the boxes live.

I have to share a bit of this room with my girlf as her "overspill" wardrobe lives in here too.

Your baby toys keep salaciously whispering to me that they're bemani tings I don't know about...

[Commander Marklar]

I like the child walker thingy Marklar, i can just imagine you in that stomping around on Steel Batalion

****, busted!

[007]

Commander Markler, is that a 32" Hitatchi?

If it is, we sell that in Comet. And it's one of my favourite plasmas we have.

[Commander Marklar]

Yep -- when I went to have a look, the image quality was far, far better than anything else they had in there and I'd seen all day (even with my ****ty camera, you can clearly see the quality of the image). I bought it from Comet. Nice chaps in the Reading branch.

[007]

Did they convince you to buy a fix it for me cover?

I bet they were nice, you must of netted them about a tenner for the screen alone. Heh.

Anyway, supurb choice. Excellent picture on that. By far the best quality screen on most of the ones we have at our branch.