The ULTIMATE Retro Game Room Tour!

Welcome to the ULTIMATE Retro Game Room Tour! It's taken months of planning, building, and setting up, but it's finally here, my 2024 Game Room Tour!
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[@Tyler16bit]

The amount of consoles is mindblowing! I'm a collector myself of consoles as well as games, and you have ones that even I don't have so it's always cool to learn more about them. Great game room!

[@CronicasVideojogos]

When the video started I thought this was going to be a minimalist's speech about having less stuff and more happiness. I was NOT disapointed! I love how everything is organized, great room!

[@GameDadShow]

Thanks!

[@Owazrim]

So much gear and tech. Setup looks great. Slat game walls look sweet.

[@GameDadShow]

Thanks!

[@JohnRiggs]

Fun camera set-up! I wish I had a dedicated space where stuff was always just 'set up'

[@GamerAhmer]

Love the Lego shelves! They display very well! Oh Yoshis! Those are super cool too! It’s nice seeing the games easily accessible and ready to go! Love how it has turned out!

[@GameDadShow]

Thanks! Ya the whole shelf is removable as well because it hides the sump pump.

[@BittyKongsQuest]

Thanks for the shout out buddy! Great game room tour, but I'm surprised the TG16 is on the unplugged shelf! It's a thing of beauty! 😄

[@GameDadShow]

Readily able to plug in though!

[@EdsHead]

This is super awesome and I'm super jealous. I wish I had a basement in our 144 year old house like that. At least I have the largest room and would love to add built in setup and storage options like you have. Thanks for sharing as game room tours like this help give the rest of us some ideas for our own spaces. Great video! Take care! 🟩

[@GameDadShow]

That is awesome that you have such an old house though! Home to one day see your room tour!

[@geeqshuq]

That Game Room is AMAZING!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the tour!!!! While I don't have a room nearly that size, you did give me some ideas that I can utilize in my little game room/office.

[@GameDadShow]

Glad I could help! Would love to see a vid of yours!

[@geeqshuq]

@@GameDadShow Well, it's all a blank slate right now as I took everything down as I am working on reconfiguring it, but will definitely share when it's finished. Hey, what brand of HDMI switches do you use if you don't mind me asking?

[@GameDadShow]

My main one is the Monoprice Blackbird 4k Matrix 4x4 and it’s amazing!

[@thelastdragon5551]

What a good size room. Plenty of options for expansion. Thanks for sharing.

[@GameDadShow]

Heck yes. Already have ideas for new things over this year. Plus I didn’t show the mechanical room yet but that will be my workshop for 3d printing, embroidery, DTF, modding, etc

[@PhoenixResale]

Great vid, love the organization!

[@GameDadShow]

Thanks man!

[@justsayin4632]

Dig that the computer area has its own defined space away from the tv area due to the divider wall. Not everyone has the square footage to do that in a dedicated space. The key is not over cluttering the areas with EVERY game-related thing you own. Rotate memorabilia and things in and out to keep things interesting and “new” every once in a while.

[@GameDadShow]

Definitely the plan!

[@freelarrytrump]

Love how there is a lot of space and not tight and cramped

[@GameDadShow]

Definitely what I was going for :)

[@MrQuaazga]

I just found this channel, and I love it! Yes I am going to subscribe.

[@GameDadShow]

Welcome!

[@TemperWolves]

Nice set up bro 👊

[@GameDadShow]

Thanks!

[@retromario6130]

Amazing room and collection. Congratulations because I know it’s hard work. Unfortunately I love to nitpick and have to ask about the dust. Do you have dust covers for your consoles and toys? Also is food allowed downstairs? Especially with it being a work station. In my messy game room I have a chair and table because I love drinks and snacks and my whole collection is in Rubbermaid tubs to avoid dust and my kids from destroying my games, lol

[@GameDadShow]

I regularly dust so that’s not an issue, and yes I allow food and drink because we do movie nights. My kids know not to mess with things and to be careful though. All good :)

[@mshinasherman7914]

Aya neo! Steam deck! Pc 4090 i9 tomahawk. Msi handheld, the onexplayer gundam edition. Rog ally, or a leveno hand held!

[@GamerAhmer]

Woah! Pumped for this!! 😮

[@GameDadShow]

I want to see yours in person some day!

[@bangkokbert3440]

Looks like a great setup but my concern would be how would you clean everywhere to remove dust? Take everything off the shelves?

[@GameDadShow]

I just use one of those disposable cling duster things. All good :)

[@zahidrehman528]

Awesome, gamedad.... if I had to change one thing it would be the tv to a qdoled or a g series lg oled.

[@GameDadShow]

I thought about going oled, but at that size (85”), it was an extra $4,000 and this had a better refresh rate

[@RectWizard]

Dude! Such a clean setup! Looks amazing man

[@GameDadShow]

Thanks!

[@retrobeliever]

Dang man!!! Really amazing space, perfection!!!

[@GameDadShow]

Thanks!

[@retrobeliever]

@@GameDadShowyou’re welcome!

[@mystacles]

Duuude u have a killer gameroom!!

[@GameDadShow]

Thanks!

[@stephendrivick840]

Does the Tom Selleck cardboard standee come to life at night, and walk around the gameroom? 😃

[@GameDadShow]

Who else is going to keep guard?

[@SquarePegs]

Your wife is awesome. It's fun messing with your games.

[@GameDadShow]

Mhhmmm

[@mariokart8715]

PC you built behind your monitors and labeled file cabinets with magnets on them. Do you have Steam?

[@GameDadShow]

Yes it is. Yes they are (I keep controllers for the various systems in them). Yes I do.

[@mariokart8715]

Your black game racks and slat wall system came from a GameStop closing down.

[@GameDadShow]

Incorrect. The slat wall and media shelving are from Grand + Benedicts. I used to live in California and their show room was only about an hour away from where I lived. Each game wall is made up of two 4'x8' pieces of raw and unpainted slat wall. When I built out my game room and finished my basement I used the same white primer that I used on the walls, then painted them the same gray color that I used on the walls. To finish them off for a nicer, more seamless look, I used 1" quarter round that I painted with that same gray, then I brough the baseboard on the walls directly up to it to create more of that built in look.

[@thebrogrammer2077]

Great tour! Where did you get your slate wall? I'm thinking about doing something similar in my room

[@GameDadShow]

Thanks! Got it from a place called Grand and Benedict’s

[@mariokart8715]

Is your tall white built in bookcase a bookcase door? What’s behind it?

[@GameDadShow]

Yes it is. The sump pump since I built the space in the basement of my house.

[@midgetsparkle]

"Legos I haven't built yet.." I don't understand. How is this possible? How?

[@GameDadShow]

Well when you have a problem and keep buying them…lol it was mainly because I had 3+ months building the game room, then another 2 months setting it up

[@naber-1984]

F zero opening music 😅😁

[@GameDadShow]

You're welcome ;)

[@mariokart8715]

You built your purple and black TV stand yourself.

[@GameDadShow]

Yes I did.

[@mshinasherman7914]

Dope

[@PurpleTeamer]

I dont see any Neogeo or Analogue SuperNT, the two only systems worth owning beside the Switch...

[@lonreed9743]

I am jelly

[@steveyboyXRP]

Psvr2 or quest 3 which is better?

[@GameDadShow]

Good question. Don’t know. Haven’t used a quest 3 yet. But it does have some pretty cool tech in it and looking at the fact that it’s WAY cheaper considering you don’t need a console as well. Probably the quest 3

[@crobinson2624]

Dude your parents must be loaded! 😂

[@GameDadShow]

lol my parents? I make way more than they do haha

[@crobinson2624]

@@GameDadShow it’s cute that they still give you an allowance. I just wish my parent’s basement looked like yours when I was living with them. I’m super jealous, sleepovers must be a blast too! 😝

[@GameDadShow]

@@crobinson2624 totally a blast!

[@luckyrockmore2796]

"Stuff"

[@LifeofEriks]

u have no Home alone lego set

[@Un-k-now]

no ps1?

[@GameDadShow]

On the shelves in the studio area and games are on the walls :)

[@sade281]

Yoooooo it’s cool I hav kinda the same set up!! But u anit ever playing those games it’s just stuff !! Get rid of all that stuff u don’t play make Tomm for better stuff 😮

[@GameDadShow]

I've actually played every single game in my collection. No point in having it if I'm not going to play it.

[@sade281]

U played what the game once !! There’s no why u can play all those games all the time I hav a collecton too and it jus sits there cut it out

[@GameDadShow]

@@sade281 I never said I play them all the time? There are several I’ve played once, several I play all of the time, several I’ve beaten once or many times over, and several I’ll likely never play again. Don’t presume to know me and what I do with my free time when you don’t. You’re entitled to your opinion of course, but that’s just it, it’s an opinion, and it’s wrong and not only do I not care if you believe me, but I in fact don’t care what you think at all. Do with that what you will, like it or not, my video, my game room, my games, and I get to do whatever the hell I want with them :)

[@willieriley1241]

You don't have PS4 I have all these consoles and 5 limited edition PS4 and 3 limited edition Xbox one consoles

[@tr1bes]

Ps5 can play ps4 games. So 1 system to play both ps5 and ps4 games. It's also have less wires.

[@willieriley1241]

@@tr1bes but still if you a true collector you still have to get all the consoles like I have you not a true collector

[@tr1bes]

@@willieriley1241 i don't need to be a true collector. I only play whatever games available. Why should I collect limited edition of a system when it's purpose is to play game? I have about 3 ps4, 3 xbox one and many others consoles plus extra. The purposes for that is to have backup incase if the main system break. In most cases the extra are bought used. Of course i test it out 1st before storing it away. I put away my snes, nes and Genesis because I got the retro trio which play all 3. Less cords and less hookup. Convience. The limited edition system is just a coat. It's play games just like the standard version.

[@GameDadShow]

That’s a pretty stupid take…so what about the dozens of other consoles I have that you don’t? Or the literal thousands of games that I have that you don’t? Does that mean you’re not a “true collector”? No. It means you have a different collection, doesn’t mean your collection is any less. It’s your stupid take on the matter that makes your opinion less. No reason to put someone down because you don’t like something about them or what they do or don’t have. Do better.

[@MB-hu2jl]

Nice stuff but the fact that you don't have a proper surround sound set up with your OLED and projector is subpar. Sound is 1/2 of the gaming experience and you are selling yourself short with a sound bar with stuff piled in front of it blocking the sound stage. 🤦‍♂️

[@GameDadShow]

It’s a small space (10x12) with no need for a full surround, as for the stuff in front of it, its a non issue because they are upward firing speakers, and even if they weren’t, the things in front of it are so small it’s inconsequential. Oh and side note, it’s a Neo QLED, not an OLED ;)

[@SquarePegs]

Having been in there to play Spidey 2: I can confirm that soundbar is PLENTY for the size of his room.

[@JohnRiggs]

I have a deaf friend with a collection that could slap most people in the face; tell him sound is 1/2 of the gaming experience. You'll have to do it in ASL, though.

[@ok_ninja]

Lol, there’s always “that guy.”

[@MB-hu2jl]

​@@GameDadShowI have a small media room too and have a 5.1.2 Atmos set up. It can work and work well. Looks like that's an Atmos bar, your consoles will pipe in sound using the discreet channels in the bar. Upward effects will be routed to the upward firing speakers only. It does not address what you are blocking in the center and left/right channels. Great room but you are doing a disservice to the sound.

[@ktulu084]

It's "Jaguar", not "Jagwire" 🙄

[@GameDadShow]

Actually the ua letter grouping is pronounced as a w. Next you’ll tell me it to-mah-to and po-tah-to. Or worst of all Al-you-minium. Bah. Nonsense

[@GameDadShow]

Oh and check their own launch commercial. I said it right :)

[@kaiyugi]

Due to lack of ps1 and ps2 games you failed.

[@GameDadShow]

Please forgive me of my wrongdoing!

[@loslakers530]

Haha you see I always knew a cutout of tom selleck is whats missing in a game room

[@GameDadShow]

Finally someone else gets it!