Making Room for your Console/Game Collection

[vexcollects]

Is your collection growing out of control (are you one of those people...like me )? What are you doing to save space?

For myself, I try to only hold on to items I know I will play or that are pretty hard to find. I also purchased the Sega CDX, mini SNES, and the Sega Power Base Convertor….opting out of the larger units (for the little difference it makes). I make sure to keep my games in their boxes and purchased some shallow depth shelving units from Ikea.

Post some pics maybe. How are you controlling your game space real-estate?

[Medic_wheat]

I'm NOT!!!


Sigh....


I have some of it in the new apartment's secodn bedroom...the defacto guest room, man cave, retro game spot.

But the majority of it all is in a storage unit and possibly (well mostly comics, toys, and military gear) in my parents storage building back in my home town.

I litterly have stuff in three diffrent cities in Texas! .........


all with the intent of buying a house to fit me, my wife, our future kid(s) max 3, two dogs, and a man cave for me to hord all my "collectables" ...


but I do try and pare it down to things I will play, things with strong sentamental attachment, things that were simply a pian to EVER replace......

Sure I have my "show" items....but I really want things to be kept in an orderly fashon...non of that "a stack here", "a land slide there", "A pile of crap there". and never USE anything because it is not easily accesable, or I simply forget it exist......




So yeah...my plan to to HORED stuff until the house happens, then once I have my personal space that I won't have to share organize and have custom shelfs put in (idealy).....then I will most likely take the odds and ends that don't fit my collection any more and fire sale it........

[vexcollects]

I'm NOT!!!


all with the intent of buying a house to fit me, my wife, our future kid(s) max 3, two dogs, and a man cave for me to hord all my "collectables" ...


but I do try and pare it down to things I will play, things with strong sentamental attachment, things that were simply a pian to EVER replace......

Sure I have my "show" items....but I really want things to be kept in an orderly fashon...non of that "a stack here", "a land slide there", "A pile of crap there". and never USE anything because it is not easily accesable, or I simply forget it exist......




So yeah...my plan to to HORED stuff until the house happens, then once I have my personal space that I won't have to share organize and have custom shelfs put in (idealy).....then I will most likely take the odds and ends that don't fit my collection any more and fire sale it........

Toys and comics too? yikes. rent an apartment for it all maybe. Just don't let it get to this...

[Medic_wheat]

I'm NOT!!!


all with the intent of buying a house to fit me, my wife, our future kid(s) max 3, two dogs, and a man cave for me to hord all my "collectables" ...


but I do try and pare it down to things I will play, things with strong sentamental attachment, things that were simply a pian to EVER replace......

Sure I have my "show" items....but I really want things to be kept in an orderly fashon...non of that "a stack here", "a land slide there", "A pile of crap there". and never USE anything because it is not easily accesable, or I simply forget it exist......




So yeah...my plan to to HORED stuff until the house happens, then once I have my personal space that I won't have to share organize and have custom shelfs put in (idealy).....then I will most likely take the odds and ends that don't fit my collection any more and fire sale it........

Toys and comics too? yikes. rent an apartment for it all maybe. Just don't let it get to this...

Oh NO NO NOOOoooooo! ...no


I keep things as organized as can be.  I have it all cataloged, boxed, protected, and stored.....


It lookes more like the secret government hanger from Indiana Johns where "top men" are handelign it if anything else.

My Comics, 50's coke machiens, Hi-Fi, and what not are all neatly put away ready for their next transport to our first house.

We just have yet to aggree on the house....

and for me to get my transfer from Victoria to San Antonio where my wife is currently at.

The whole spending weekends with her, and driving back at 5AM on a Monday directly to work is really not how I planed to spend the first few months of being married, but I'd rather do that then tell my wife no to her being accpeted for her dream job. 

[vestcoat]

Post some pics maybe. How are you controlling your game space real-estate?

I prefer the Bardoly method of amassing enough possessions to literally brick oneself into the basement:

[vexcollects]

Post some pics maybe. How are you controlling your game space real-estate?

I prefer the Bardoly method of amassing enough possessions to literally brick oneself into the basement:

Are those load bearing games? Structurally critical? It appears that way. 

[cr8zykuban0]

I've gotten rid of a lot of stuff I no longer played (Atari, intellivision, sega cd and 32x, 3do) and a whole bunch of games to only keep stuff that I will play or that I have good memories with.

I really need some ikea shelves to display my retro consoles. what I have currently for my retro systems and crt tv is kinda ugly

[MrBroadway]

I have two bookshelves that fit all my games. Just had to get ones deep enough to fit multiple rows. A couple consoles fit on the bookshelves, but where they don't will fit on the TV stand or on top of the real bookshelf (where my book collection exists).

I also boxed up my arcade sticks and threw in the wires, kept now in a plastic baggy, in with them, so that when I want to play a particular console, I just grab it off the shelf and from the closet grab the stick box or a controller from the controller drawer (if there is no room for the controllers in the box) and play.

[esteban]

Someone already stated this, I believe, but this is what I've been doing for the past decade+...

ROTATE CONSOLE/HANDHELD every few months. I only have 1-2 consoles and 1-2 handhelds available for instant fun at any given time. I like this because it forces me to play a variety of hardware/platforms/etc. throughout the course of a year.

I have too much hardware and little space near my TV for everything. I have 3-year old twins, so I can't have anything out in the open.

Sure, if I really had the desire to play Star Control II 3DO, I can always pull it out of a bin in my basement, but usually I stick with the hardware that is currently "in rotation"...

[vexcollects]

Someone already stated this, I believe, but this is what I've been doing for the past decade+...

ROTATE CONSOLE/HANDHELD every few months. I only have 1-2 consoles and 1-2 handhelds available for instant fun at any given time. I like this because it forces me to play a variety of hardware/platforms/etc. throughout the course of a year.

I have too much hardware and little space near my TV for everything. I have 3-year old twins, so I can't have anything out in the open.

Sure, if I really had the desire to play Star Control II 3DO, I can always pull it out of a bin in my basement, but usually I stick with the hardware that is currently "in rotation"...

I was just looking at my 3do and my Star Control II box today, thinking about how I should really get around to playing it again.

[Azzurri]

I have my Wii U and soon to be PS4 under my HDTV, but my SNES and soon to be Duo is going to be connected through my framemeister attached to my PC monitor. 

[MrBroadway]

I have my Wii U and soon to be PS4 under my HDTV, but my SNES and soon to be Duo is going to be connected through my framemeister attached to my PC monitor.

Is the Framemeister all it's cracked up to be?

[Azzurri]

I have my Wii U and soon to be PS4 under my HDTV, but my SNES and soon to be Duo is going to be connected through my framemeister attached to my PC monitor.

Is the Framemeister all it's cracked up to be?

It is, especially if you're playing on a new HDTV or PC monitor.  Also, if you have it RGB Mod it's even better.  Yea, it's around 350, but it's worth and I don't have to have an old heavy CRT in my apartment and a lot of clutter.

[majors]

I keep items that I want and enjoy, not any collector mentality.



If it fits on the shelves, then I feel I can keep it. I just dumped 90+ 2600 carts, so I'm good for another year of getting more

[Necromancer]

I keep items that I want and enjoy, not any collector mentality.

Unless it's candy.