Turns out I did have room for more. Haven't gotten around to that pinball table yet but I just added this lovely 2-slot Neo Geo MVS to the lineup. The guy I bought it from also had a 6-slot for sale but the cabinet was absolutely massive and it just wouldn't have fit (I think it would have left about 4 inches of clearance to the ceiling). Either way, I'm perfectly happy with it so far. It's currently running King of the Monsters 2 and Fatal Fury 2.

I definitely need a nice hanging light for the pool table. It's on my to-do list, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. And kudos on spotting the darts, I completely forgot to mention that in the video (or even open the doors before starting the walkthrough). There's also a chalkboard painted onto one wall you can just barely see in a couple shots that I also forgot to mention.

Sure enough I was measuring around and there is enough room for a pinball table if I move the foosball sideways. Don't have the money for it yet but I just started a fund based on that discovery. I have my eyes on a Fireball Classic that's currently available in a local shop, but who knows if it'll still be there by the time I have enough cash saved up.

After that, I'll probably have to start taking things out as new things come in. The first thing to go will probably be the TV with the old game consoles. I have an unused spare bedroom upstairs that I can move that stuff into. It's classic gaming related, but not really arcade related, so it won't be a big loss to move them somewhere else in the house as long as they remain hooked up.

I also have a tabletop mame cabinet in my living room upstairs. I'll have to put up a couple pictures of that when I get a chance.

I guess that's the key difference, then. I'm not worried about the preservation of all the world's video games locally in my living room. The primary purpose of my machine is to PLAY. And when it comes down to it, there's only a handful of games that I want to play all the time. Adding in a thousand other games that I don't want to play would turn my cabinet into a museum, but that's not what I want.

My game room is pretty tame compared to some of these, but I'm really proud of it. It was an unfinished basement when we bought the house a year ago, and we spent about eight months putting up the walls and ceiling ourselves. This video was recorded rather hastily once everything was finished so I could show the new room off to my friends and family. I know it's not technically "pictures" as requested, but it's all I've got handy.

http://youtu.be/eLLy_GSgblY

We've had the Galaga and the DK Jr for several years now and we've always planned on getting more games, but circumstances have just never been quite right so our collection never had a chance to grow. We did add one game last year in the form of a 3 PCB that we can swap into the DK Jr cabinet, so we have a little variety there. Replacing the original wiring harness with a DK3-friendly Edge Connector one was a fun challenge since it was the first real work I've done on an arcade machine. Also, the serial number on our DK Jr machine is 20. I don't really know if that makes it special or not, but I've always found it entertaining.

Hopefully some time soon we'll be able to add something new to the lineup (we've been looking at pinball machines recently, but getting one squeezed into the room layout will be a challenge). In the mean time, my wife and I play a lot of pool and challenge each other's high scores on the three games we do have. We get a lot of good use out of this room.

I have a small single-player tabletop Mame cabinet that I really like. It runs on a cheap little Eee PC netbook that I picked up a few years ago for a couple hundred bucks, and since I'm a mild-mannered software developer by day I of course had to write my own custom front-end launcher software for it. It's not quite as flashy as some of the front-ends you can get online, but it has the benefit of looking and working exactly the way I wanted it to and it gives me some satisfaction to know my cabinet is one-of-a-kind.

Anyway, the question I have for you guys is about your approach to building a game list for a Mame cabinet. I've noticed that most Mame cabinets I've seen have people bragging about how many thousands of games they have loaded onto them. THOUSANDS! I don't think I've played a thousand games in my life, and I kind of doubt that there's that many games in existence that I would even like, let alone want a copy of in my living room.

On my cabinet I have a list of about 30 or so games that I really love and desire to play regularly. If there's a game on the list that I find I don't really want to play very often then I remove it. I like to keep my selection list neat and trim and completely devoid of games that I don't love. It's my Mame cabinet after all, and I like its game list to reflect my personal taste.

Am I alone in this philosophy? Has anybody else ever given it any thought? Having tons of games for the sake of having tons of games has just never appealed to me. I don't have a problem with people who prefer to have lots and lots of games, I guess I just don't really understand the appeal.

Yet another mystery of the universe solved. Thanks, John!

I have a 3 PCB that I keep around to periodically swap into my DK Jr cabinet, and I've noticed that the DK3 board has a spot to insert two AA batteries on it. I glanced through the original Nintendo instruction manual and I didn't see it mentioned, so I was wondering what it's for. I don't have the guts to put batteries in it to investigate myself because I'm afraid I would break it.