How I built a retro gaming room

Earlier this year, I was hit with the urge to build the ULTIMATE retro gaming room. So I converted a spare bedroom into EXACTLY that.

I went to Blue Home Depot and bought about $80 worth of wood and nails and sh**, and screwed it all together into a custom-built entertainment… shelving… thingy… to hold my big heavy CRT, my HiFi stack, and all my consoles and cartridges.

Lemme tell ya, having a dedicated space for all my retro gaming goodness has been a GAME changer! (Pun DEFINITELY intended!) Before, all these consoles were all over the place in various states of working-ness. Now, whenever I get the urge, I can just plop down on the (not-pictured) couch and play whatever I want!

With this setup, here’s all the stuff I can do!:

• Atari 2600 games

• Nintendo games

• Super Nintendo games

• Nintendo 64 games (spiritually, it’s broken right now)

• Wii / Gamecube games

• Namco arcade plug-&-play games

• DVDs, CDs, audio tapes

• VHS tapes

• and MORE!

It’s like an enormous, far-less portable version of that other thing I did once!