Show Your Retro\Arcade Collection

Optimus Prime

Hope this is Cool with the mods, if not please remove. we used to have a thread like this before but its probably dead now. Took a few pics tonight while trying to sort out my "Office" after it was used as Santas Hiding place for presents over Christmas.

Basic idea of the thread is to post pics of your Retro Collection\Arcade collection. Fair few pics here so hope thats ok.

NES\SNES Stuff



Handhelds and some other stuff


Few more consoles


Work in progress Taito Space Invaders Cocktail


Some more random stuff


More stuff,Cocktail Glass, Gold Zelda Statue from club nintendo etc.


Desk


Serenity Wall Poster Thing


Cabs, from the left, Mame Cab i Built, Donkey Kong Style Cab I fixed up with a 60in1 vertical board, SF2 Cab i cleaned up with CE in it, Electrocoin Xenon working im currently doing up as a dedicated Tetris Cab, and a non working Electrocoin Xenon (non working for now)


Donkey Kong




Street Fighter 2 Champions Edition


Moon Base Cocktail, needs restoring after im done with the others.

CathalDublin

Love the Cocktails Keith, some day I'll find one, closest for now is the alcoholic type.

My Defender(currently a JAMMA cab, will fully restore some day)


Incase I get slated for converting a Defender, this is how I received it, that is the original side art above BTW


The Pinball


Pinball and JAMMA cab how they stand now


The consoles(no room in the apartment for a CRT)
There is now a Bose 321 squashed in there too


Will add pics of my games at some staage, they are currently spread around the house where ever they can fit without annoying the missus

Hank Scorpio

awesome stuff all round

valleyoftheunos

great collections, super jealous.

CiDeRmAn

Beautiful cabs lads, and nice console collections too.
I'll take some photos of my mess and throw them up here tomorrow.

Myrddin

An absolute cracker of a collection Keith, I tip my hat!

Optimus Prime

EnterNow wrote: »

An absolute cracker of a collection Keith, I tip my hat!

Cheers, at one stage i had about 100 megadrive games too, but i sold em off when we needed some money for the wedding. regretting that now, the selling of megadrive games not the wedding Sold my boxed gamegear too :rolleyes:

Ive a pile of otherstuff not seen there, including a load of media kits for games I got sent out for the website, some of them are really cool, the god of war 3 one is the best looking, its in one of the pics above. Plus who could forget my CIB Pink Princess Peach 3DS I wont off Club Nintendo haha..

Looking forward to seeing everyone elses collections! Get posting!:pac:

wtlltw

Stunning collections (and great dusting skills)

Only Retro-consoles I have left is an original Master System, Atari ST (single sides drive version - sucked when Dungeon Master asked for a second disk at the half-way point) and an intellivision with speech add-on and about 15 games. Everything else (NES, Amiga, SNES, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Megadrive, PC Engine, gameboy (many versions), PS1, Vic20, C64 and possibly others were either given away to friends or family or traded in)

Myrddin

Ok most would have seen pics of my collection, heck I built the room while maintaining a thread on it here.

Anyway, to keep things current here's some recent snaps of the lot, sorry about the lighting, its a room that doesn't lend itself well to be photo'd.

The main setup, tv's & consoles



Starting from the bottom left & working across. The Snes & Nes which are both NTSC-U. Mastersystem 2 which has a 60Hz switch



Saturn Model 2. This has region switches fitted & is chipped.



Working upwards now, the Panasonc 3DO FZ-1 {PAL }, N64 which is NTSC-U. The Megadrive 1, Mega CD 1 & 32X which are all fully 60Hz & region modded too.



And then on the top of the left side of the setup, lies the Pc Engine Duo-R with is RGB modded & a Halo 3 edition 360 which is jtagged & instead of a dvd drive has a 1TB internal hdd. Oh a Spitfire & P51 also sit there too!



No moving on the right side of the console setup, these sit in the bottom left corner of it. The ill fated Atari Jaguar {PAL } & a very much modded Gamecube. It is chipped & has a 3rd party Viper shell to allow full sized discs.



Next again is a modded Dreamcast, it has the region free Bios. Moving up over that is the softmodded crystal edition Xbox & that wears an Atari 2600 Jr as a cap



Then to round off the shelved stuff, the Playstation 1 & Silver PS2. The PS1 is chipped & the PS2 is softmodded with an IDE hdd in the back of it.



Finally then sits the PC & the Wii U. I'll have to rearrange the setup somewhat & fit the Wii U in properly somewhere, but for now thats where it lives. I've moved the original Wii downstairs to the living room for Netflix reasons.



Everything showed above is running at 60Hz where possible, & RGB's where possible. Some have to use AV where there's no other option, & I have it split up with two 4 way scart splitters that support full RGB. The room has a 4 port gigabit switch for the consoles that need it, & it only takes a few seconds of switches & plugs to get from one console working to another.

On the right side as your looking into the attic from the door lie these shelves. I used to display all the handhelds here but space is such a premium in the room that I've had to pack them mostly away.



Screen & region modded Nomad, 3DS, DS & Gamegear.



Two cfw'd PSP's in replacement shells I got from Rewind Bits, & the Wii U Pad. An assortment of Lego Minifigs guard all this



An assortment of Lightguns, pads, & surround sound head set

Myrddin

Directly opposite those shelves, are these ones



Some Snes, N64, 32X & 2600 carts



Part of the 360 collection



Then on the back partition wall there's more stuff















I got this cool little Atari case thing off Infideals ages ago





And not to mention my still sealed Skyward Sword which I plan to retire off :rolleyes:



Thats basically it. Whats still packed away is stuff I basically don't have room for:

Commodore 64
Gameboy
Gameboy Colour
GBA
GBA SP
GBA Micro
Nintendo DS {phat original type}
Nintendo DSi XL {25th Anniversary Mario Edition}

My games section needs some serious work though.

Optimus Prime

Nice, id love my attic converted like that, ill get around to it eventually! No pics of your cabs?

wtlltw

Not mine, but a very nice ZX Spectrum collection on the Banksy forums (at the bottom of the page)

http://banksyforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=urbanart&action=display&thread=69634&page=504

o1s1n

Holy **** Enternow, that's some progress you've made with that. It's an Aladdin's cave! Looks amazing.

Myrddin

keithgeo wrote: »

Nice, id love my attic converted like that, ill get around to it eventually! No pics of your cabs?

The outdoor shed needs a good tidying at this stage man, will have to save those for another day. Though only having two cabs, feels kinda pointless posting them after that museum quality display you have going on!

o1s1n wrote: »

Holy **** Enternow, that's some progress you've made with that. It's an Aladdin's cave! Looks amazing.

Cheers dude, its grand yeah...just too damned small

o1s1n

EnterNow wrote: »

Cheers dude, its grand yeah...just too damned small

You have an attic dedicated to consoles and a shed big enough for multiple cabs, what else could a man want!

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

You have an attic dedicated to consoles and a shed big enough for multiple cabs, what else could a man want!

An attic I could stand up straight in & a shed I can enjoy cabs in other than in the months of June to August

OwaynOTT

I posted mine before as well but since then there has been massive changes and here is my collection as it stands.

Hank Scorpio

Some lovely, errr, looking boxes you got there old chap

OwaynOTT

Mint and only one of them opened!

CiDeRmAn

We will all await the multitude of unboxing videos that'll be associated with finding them all a permanent home!

unky chop chop

keithgeo wrote: »

Cabs, from the left, Mame Cab i Built, Donkey Kong Style Cab I fixed up with a 60in1 vertical board, SF2 Cab i cleaned up with CE in it, Electrocoin Xenon working im currently doing up as a dedicated Tetris Cab, and a non working Electrocoin Xenon (non working for now)

Whats the story with the two Electrocoins, Are they new additions to the family?
where did you get your greasy paws on them.
They were the staple cab in many arcade back in the day.

You are king amongst men man.....Animal cabs and a great collection.Fair play

Optimus Prime

unky chop chop wrote: »

Whats the story with the two Electrocoins, Are they new additions to the family?
where did you get your greasy paws on them.
They were the staple cab in many arcade back in the day.

You are king amongst men man.....Animal cabs and a great collection.Fair play

Haha thanks, I got them off adverts a month or so back, they need a bit of work looks wise, they are in bits. One works great the other needs a chassis repair. I'm making one a dedicated tetris cab, not sure what to do with the other one.

shleedance

New guy here. Here is a recent photo I took of my entertainment section of my room:



The majority of games are stored in the various drawers.

Steve X2

I dont really have many pics of my full retro setup. I seem to change it every month or two (replace one IKEA thing for another etc etc).
Here's a pic of one side of my man cave from a while back, things have changed a bit since then and you cant really see a lot from it.



I'll take some nice pics in a few weeks when I'm finished redecorating the whole room.

Here's my Candy cab (downstairs).


I'd love to display my games like a lot of people do here but its just no possible as after 20 years of collecting stuff (I didn't take up collecting, I've just been keeping stuff since I was a kid and adding to it ) there's just too much of it so the get stored in presses and things like that.

Agueroooo

Excellent thread. Keep it up lads.

Mad jealous.

K.O.Kiki

Steve SI wrote: »

Here's my Candy cab (downstairs).


I'd love to display my games like a lot of people do here but its just no possible as after 20 years of collecting stuff (I didn't take up collecting, I've just been keeping stuff since I was a kid and adding to it ) there's just too much of it so the get stored in presses and things like that.

Actual CPSIII with functioning 3S?! :eek:

Myrddin

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Actual CPSIII with functioning 3S?! :eek:

Mame

Steve X2

Yeah, Hyperspin/MAME running in the pic.

CosmicSmash

The picture doesn't do that cab justice, tis a thing of beauty.

the groutch

Monkeykube wrote: »

The picture doesn't do that cab justice, tis a thing of beauty.

+1 on that

Steve X2

Yeah, I think I've pretty much got the whole product close up shots down but I'm still not great at getting a nice pic of a full cab for some reason

Crappy full cab pic a few posts above/back ↑

Nice close-up pic below ↓

CiDeRmAn

Hmmm, textured balls!

sorry, had to.....

Alter Egotist

Keith great to see my virtual boy still has pride of place. I've gone mad with my NES collection. We literally have a room in the house dedicated to it.

Al.

OwaynOTT

Alter Egotist wrote: »

Keith great to see my virtual boy still has pride of place. I've gone mad with my NES collection. We literally have a room in the house dedicated to it.

Al.

Need to bone up on your snes collection there

Burkey0

V nice collections, having stuff out on shelves is nice but I'd be gritting my teeth. The dust!

Heres a few snippets of my Nintendo fanboy oriented collection thus far




NES games, grey Zapper and pikey bootleg NES



SNES drawer. Not as many boxed as I'd like, in fact so many loose x( Some of the proest loose games at the front, F-Zero and Vegas Stakes NTSC sealed at the back (can be bought for peanuts! At least you could before). Rogue wire all throughout



N64 with most my games, good amount boxed at least, few more out of shot



Bita GameCube. Is GameCube retro now? I think so



Just a few wee present day trinkets, should probably have gotten the Limited Edition or whatever of the RPGs but how and ever, I'm not really into special editions

Augmerson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y

A seriously though, wow!

OwaynOTT

@ Burkey0 - Terranigma boxed! A very nice get there. Not a bad collection and its great if your only starting out.

Richard Dower

Burkey0 wrote: »

V nice collections, having stuff out on shelves is nice but I'd be gritting my teeth. The dust!

Heres a few snippets of my Nintendo fanboy oriented collection thus far




NES games, grey Zapper and pikey bootleg NES



SNES drawer. Not as many boxed as I'd like, in fact so many loose x( Some of the proest loose games at the front, F-Zero and Vegas Stakes NTSC sealed at the back (can be bought for peanuts! At least you could before). Rogue wire all throughout



N64 with most my games, good amount boxed at least, few more out of shot



Bita GameCube. Is GameCube retro now? I think so



Just a few wee present day trinkets, should probably have gotten the Limited Edition or whatever of the RPGs but how and ever, I'm not really into special editions

You have Desert Strike....my all time favourite game!!

the groutch

didnt even know Paper Mario came out on the n64

CiDeRmAn

the groutch wrote: »

didnt even know Paper Mario came out on the n64

I'm shocked!
It's excellent, I have it somewhere

OwaynOTT

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm shocked!
It's excellent, I have it somewhere

I concur.

o1s1n

I have a lovely minty boxed copy of that in my parents attic back home. Actually I've a load of fully boxed n64 games there which I haven't dug out in years!

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

I have a lovely minty boxed copy of that in my parents attic back home. Actually I've a load of fully boxed n64 games there which I haven't dug out in years!

Hopefully they are well protected from the damp or that will be one depressing experience when you go back to check on them.

o1s1n

Andrew76 wrote: »

Hopefully they are well protected from the damp or that will be one depressing experience when you go back to check on them.

Indeed! That's one thing which worries me. I took a lot of care while storing all of it. It's all in the centre of the attic where most of the heat is, in Tesco crates, with loads of tshirts for padding and plastic bags on top.

My main concern now is mice. Imagine going back to it to find a mouse had chewed his way through a load of games :eek:

OwaynOTT

I've a load of stuff stored in an attic at the moment and I did get a shock recently when those who own the attic decided to pack stuff on top of each other.
Now I stupidly only used cardboard boxes, as I thought it would only be a few weeks, and sure didn't the boxes collapse.
One of my gameboy micro boxes was destroyed and I hadn't the heart to check the rest out. I will be taking the bulk of the stuff out tomorrow night and I am absolutely dreading the experience. Butterflies in my stomach.
The worse thing is I know that they were up the attic last week moving stuff around and I know my stuff will not be handled with care.
I told them how expensive the stuff was.
'Sure their only videogames'

Burkey0

Thanks lads

o1s1n, I bought it new and somehow misplaced/destroyed the box and manual x( worth some good dollars now.

IMO the best of the Paper Marios

Parawind

Burkey0 wrote: »

Just a few wee present day trinkets, should probably have gotten the Limited Edition or whatever of the RPGs but how and ever, I'm not really into special editions

I hope your happy with yourself, posting this picture has just made me go and splurge on all 3 of them! I have been humming and hawwing over them for the last week and that picture just pushed me over the edge! Now I just hope they live up to the hype.

Burkey0

Oh gosh. Good to see my praise is regarded so highly, I suppose

Xenoblade I've not yet finished but does a lot right, once you've gotten your head round the combat system. The quests are enticing and it's one of those games where the equipment actually changes the appearances of the characters Needs a few hours before you get into it, I think many are lukewarm at first before being hooked.

I should probably leave it for you to experience ingame yourself first, but if not then here's a sneak preview of the excellent music of one of the game's best areas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweRl4LZlmo

Pandora's Tower is less RPG-like, more an action adventure, almost a dungeon crawler. Haven't played too much of it, mind, and it is certainly a bit limited graphically. Another slow-burner, probably the weaker link of the three. I do believe it's finally being given a US release. Boo!

And The Last Story I just haven't had time for! But it's well regarded with a triffic soundtrack and more tactical battling, even stealth if you want. Must play more of it

In any case, good to get them before they ramp up in value! And also to hear the Queen's English accents common to all three :pac:

Burkey0

Richard Dower wrote: »

You have Desert Strike....my all time favourite game!!

"I prefer Urban"

Urbanledge?

Myrddin

More pics of collections, less waddle