Collections tend to expand to fill all available space

[tim575]

I am not new but only post a few times a year. I have been collecting since the 1980s and found it is not possible to have enough room for all the games. I started with a few in one house, then in another home converted a garage to a game room (and ended up building a new garage). Finally in my last home, I had the space to build a dedicated 2-story building next to the home as the arcade in 2008. I expected it would take the rest of my life during retirement to fill it, but now it is already 80% full and I am years from retirement! Seems you can never have a game room big enough. I think a lot of collectors end up constrained by where to put all the games (garage, shed, warehouse...). But so far the collection has not 'leaked' into the house. Attached a pic of the building which has 2 upstairs rooms for 1900-WWII machines, and downstairs is for WWII to end of the EM era, and a combined pic I use for wallpaper on my PC, which shows about 50% of the collection. A few pics of some of my other games are in other topics I responded to.

[john t peterson]

Goodness, Tim, what an amazing collection. And beautifully displayed too. Well done, Sir, well done.

J Peterson
Medium rare, USA

[moonriver]

Fabulous! when is your open house day?

[treefrog]

Awesome

I dream one day when I hit the jackpot I will get a dedicated home for my collection

[tim575]

Moonriver, almost every Saturday can be open house for friends, co-workers, or relatives that want a tour or try the games. But it maybe a bit out of travel range for most unless they are already visiting in the US areas of Reno Nevada or Sacramento/San Francisco CA and looking for a side trip, I am in the Sierra mountains along the highway between Sacramento and Reno. It has been a stop over for friends taking their family from the Bay area to Reno on vacation...

[tim575]

That first pic I posted covered about half the games. Here are pics of the others:

[bryans fan]

WOW!!!!!
THAT IS SOME COLLECTION!
We're not jealous
Fabulous

[treefrog]

Wow, wow, wow,

Love that tiger, that is sooo cool,

[cjfenney]

Absolutely stunning collection!

[tallstory]

I could spend my whole holiday there - just sleeping on the floor! What a shame you are so very far away. Such a games room is just a fantasy to us poor limeys.