I’ve mentioned this a few times over the past year or so, when I had first started building this out. I finally got around to recording a walkthrough of the Retro Room, which you can see below:
The video includes narration but, in the above thumbnail, you’ll see a Sony Trinitron CRT. Alongside it are several switch boxes, each labeled with the logo of a corresponding system.
Each console can be played at anytime; you just need to press the correct switch(es). As for the consoles themselves, they include (from top row under the TV, left to right): Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Nintendo 64 (N64), GameCube, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation, Sony PlayStation 2 Slim, and Nintendo Wii (modded). On the left tower is an Atari 2600+ and a ColecoVision; the right tower contains a second Sega Genesis with Sega CD and Sega 32X attachments in the famed “Tower of Power” (Sega 32X + Game Genie + Sonic & Knuckles + Sonic 3), and underneath that a Panasonic 3DO. The bottom floor shelves of each tower contain old Disney VHS (Classics) and Gaming books.
Not shown in the video is what’s in the drawers of each tower: accessories galore. Some are extra controllers, but there are memory cards and random peripherals as well.
Opposite the consoles is my Wall of Controllers, arranged by company. Then, the wall between both houses the retro games themselves, along with some extra goodies, such as light guns for corresponding games, action figures, and an entire row paying homage to the history of handheld gaming. Shown here are the original Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Game Boy Pocket, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Sega Game Gear, Sega Nomad, Sony PlayStation Portable, and Sony PlayStation Vita. Another wall holds my more modern game collection, for use in high-def gaming, containing games from PS3, PS4, and PS5 as well as Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Also some PC games, some extra consoles, and some early-VR/Kinect accessories.
Of course, in between these two shelves is a movie poster for the classic 80s gaming film The Wizard, starring Fred Savage.
On the other side of the basement entirely is my burgeoning home theater section. I am still working on getting some movie posters to hang on the wall there for my favorite films (Gone with the Wind, The Usual Suspects, and Tropic Thunder to cover a range of genres), but you’ll see my modern consoles hooked up to the big-screen TV as part of my extended gaming center for the time being.
Lastly, a quick peek at my office space, where I typically do the majority of my work throughout the day — a spot that also includes a few more figures I highlight as well!
As far as missing content goes? I would love to own the following missing consoles: Atari Jaguar, Atari Jaguar CD, TurboGrafx-16 (and it’s CD-ROM add-on), and NEO-GEO. There’s also plenty of other handhelds out there, as well as older consoles. The problem with acquiring most of these is that they are prohibitively expensive due to their rarity, and most of any game worth a damn from them is available elsewhere already anyway.
I’d also love to someday get an arcade machine (multi-game, naturally) and nest it in that little spot next to my gaming tower, in between it and the big-screen TV.
For now, my collection more than suits my needs.
Pixels & Polygons 