This page is under construction…. I have it public while I work on it…. don’t judge to hard!
This page isn’t clean. It’s barely organized but it’s not supposed to be.
This is everything. Old pictures I forgot I had. Early setups that made no sense. Random TVs on the floor. Wires everywhere. Stuff that barely worked. Stuff I thought was “good” at the time. Then slowly… it starts to change. CRTs show up. Dumber decisions. Heavier decisions. At some point it stops being a setup and turns into a problem. Then eventually… it turns into something I am finally proud of.
The current game room isn’t something I planned. It’s what happens when you don’t throw anything away and keep chasing a very specific feeling. Every picture here is real. Every setup existed. Nothing staged. Some of it is stupid. Some of it is actually good. Most of it sits somewhere in between.
Scroll through it in reverse order (top to bottom) or be chronological and scroll to the bottom and work your way up. Enjoy my retro RGB weird CRT journey of finding the BEST way to play a silly Super Nintendo. Watch it get worse. Then better. Then worse again.
2026-Today
Here is the CURRENT game room. It’s done and that’s the problem. There are 16 CRTs in this room... Not counting the closet. Not counting the extras in the shed. Just what’s actually in play.
There’s no “main display” anymore. Everything has a purpose.
The Sony KV-27FS100 is the anchor. That’s where real console time happens. The Sony PVM-14M4U sits in the rack like it belongs there, because it does. That’s the “this is how it’s supposed to look” screen. Everything ties together with XTRON gear, RetroTink Equipment, and a high electric bill. Signal routing is stupid with Extron crosspoints RetroTinks. Splitters. Converters. SNES can end up on a PVM, a consumer Trinitron, and a 4K panel at the same time.
With basically no latency. That shouldn’t be possible.
But it is. There’s also a 4K TV in here. Which feels wrong.
But it earns its spot.
Youve got my main gaming/work PC, my archival and gaming Windows XP rig.. more on her later ;) and my test...work....play..bench. That’s where things get opened, sprayed with DeoxIT, tested, fixed, flipped, or abandoned. There is always something mid-repair.
Then there’s the cube shelf.... The “these are too good to get rid of but not important enough to play with everyday, you could call it my collection. Next to it is the stack. That’s overflow.
That’s “I’ll deal with this later.”
That later never comes.
Under the desk I store all of my vintage computers.
Nothing here is for show but also its all for show.
Every screen has been used.
Every piece has a reason.
Even if that reason is just “I couldn’t get rid of it.”
This isn’t a collection anymore. It’s a finished system... and that’s why it sucks. Because there’s nothing left to fix... Nothing left to improve....
You can move things around.
You can swap a tube.
But you’re not making it better.
You’re just… changing it.
End of 2025…. I thought I was done.
I really did think this was it.... but something was missing. I really wanted to implement the RetroTink4k and make my Retro Computing area more modular. If i want a 386 one day and a damn Pentium II the next i should just manually SWAP and grab its respective CRT. BUT this was before that. Before that itch started and before the vintage computer hoarding really hit full swing.
New house? New GAME ROOM!
Moving all the CRTs into the new house was honestly insane, but it was the good kind of insane. Thank God I did it right and rented a massive moving truck, because this was not something you do with a pickup and a couple trips. CDL instincts kicked in hard that day. I had a bunch of family and friends helping too, most of them fully aware that I’m a little off for caring this much about old TVs, but they still showed up anyway.
At that point I had TWO storage units packed with CRTs because there was no way they were fitting in me and [my fiances] one-bedroom apartment. She actually let me have tubes in there, which is still wild, but I didn’t push it. I knew I was moving eventually, so every time I picked up another set, it went straight to storage instead of pretending it belonged in the apartment.
Moving day turned into this weird multi-stop operation. Load the truck, hit one storage unit, pack it, go to the second one, pack that, then finally head to the house. Just CRT after CRT after CRT. Heavy, awkward, no good place to grab them, praying you don’t smack a neck board or destroy a corner. You know.... and all of my other stuff like the BED and DRESSERs lol.
And somehow we still pulled it off fast. Whole truck loaded, multiple stops done, everything unloaded at the house, and the truck returned by noon. It didn’t feel real. Like there’s no way that many TVs just got moved that cleanly without something going wrong.
That was the moment it really hit me though. It stopped being “a few CRTs” and turned into “I have an actual problem and it now requires logistics.” I tied making my own cables.... worked on my first PVM... and really got started learning my identity with this stuff.
Anywho.... in these photos you can really see the SLOW progression of storage unit to the game room you see today. Im super proud of what I have achieved.
2022-2025 The Apartment
Yeah... this was rough. Finally a space to my "own"... sorta. This was our "dining room" in our one bedroom apartment. I wish I took more pictures from this time period but its still fun to look back and see this. This is when I learned playing Xbox on a VGA CRT is actually AWESOME. The pictures speak for themselves....
This is the era I really started to lean into this newfound hobby. I always loved gaming on my old "retro" systems but I still didn't know HOW to do it right. The CRT world finally CLICKED that this is what I was missing all along.
