Ray Bot

16 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

hahaha this is awesome! thanks!

Just for fun since I got requests from friends to do it

Update! 

Finally had a friend come over with a better camera

Even though we had game systems in our home my whole life, starting with a NES Deluxe Set, i wouldn't say i became a collector until high school. 1998 was when I walked into the video rental store next to the grocery i worked at, and asked the owner if anyone still rented NES games. he said "nobody rents nintenda tapes anymore, everyone wants the playstation" so I asked him if i could buy all of them. he agreed, so every week when i got paid I'd go there with $100 and walk out with 20 CIB games. thankfully this place made copies of the manuals for rentals and kept the originals in a binder in the back, and the boxes themselves weren't all that banged up despite being on the shelves. After i bought all of their games, and added a few from my friends, i had ~200 titles in the collection. From there i just bought a few titles here and there from places like Gametrader.  

Then Katrina hit. i lost pretty much all of my boxes and manuals, but thankfully a friend of mine with a big station wagon picked up all of my cartridges before he evacuated, as i was already in Baton Rouge at the time and couldnt go back home. the only CIB i didnt lose was Stack Up, as it was still in the Deluxe Set box up in my parents attic. my SNES console box was up there too, along with a Super Scope box. but yeah, all the other paper was destroyed.

that kinda depressed me for a while, but around 2008 i got the itch again and started buying out old video rental places again, as a lot of mom and pop spots started shutting down. by 2010 i had a lot of stuff, and then i joined Nintendoage a year later and things really took off.  

it took me a little over 20 years to complete my NES, SNES, and N64 cart collections, so no I'm not thinking about selling. however, now that i have my forever home and my forever bookshelves built, I am about to start the task of going through the boxes and boxes of stuff that wont fit on the shelves and selling a lot of it. I bought out video game stores, flea market vendors, and plenty of garage sales over the years just to complete my collection, so I've had tons of trade bait as well as made a lot of console+game bundles to sell to friends and family. I've already made my money back from all of those buyouts, so now i guess the stuff I'm about to sell is going to finally be considered profit. 

i just cant see myself selling Stadium Events, Flintstones Dino Peak, Little Samson, MBR/SR, DK Comp, or Star Fox SW no matter how much people offer me. to me, the value of the collection as a whole is much higher than if i sold off the dozen or so titles that are really propping it up dollar wise. Even if only a few of them are worth playing, it just hits different when someone says "oh you have a full collection? but do you have _____?" and I'm like "yeah but i never play it. come play the good stuff"

Besides, what am i gonna do with all the money? its not like i can go on a vacation right now

Full NES, SNES, and N64 cart collections please and thank you!

bumping this because im back. and i finished my shelves. theres a thread in the show off forums

12 hours ago, B.A. said:

Wow, that looks great!  I hope you are planning to stay in that house for the long haul! 

This is my forever home. and the shelves were built to stay there so even after i die im sure whoever lives here will keep them.

12 hours ago, Calan87 said:

holy crap man that is NICE! I just have one question. How did you secure it to the wall?

All of them are such a tight fit that i could literally climb them without them moving, but just to be safe the top of every section has metal L brackets screwed into them, sandwiched between each section and the long continuous top shelf that the ladder rail is mounted to. the L brackets are anchored to studs in the wall. 

sorry for the poor quality, i had to take this picture with a potato because i ran out of money for a real camera

FINALLY FINISHED THEM! 

it only took something like 6 years, but they're done. all Oak and all a pain in my ass. They're 11 feet tall, 14 feet from wall to wall, and TV stand rolls out to access the wiring. The rolling ladder clears the TV stand as well. since these photos were taken, that subwoofer is gone and has been replaced with an under the sofa subwoofer. the TV is a 55" and will be replaced with a 55" OLED as soon as my butthole recovers from the copious amount of money i just pulled out of it to build all of this. But now its done and i feel like Belle in the library!

40 minutes ago, B.A. said:

Hey it's Ray Bot, good to see you again!  

Get those shelves filled and post a follow up pic.  Do you still have that Jetsons cart? 

Yes sir! Still have it and everything else i got from NA members over the years. They'll all be up on these shelves soon, hopefully by the end of the year!

Theres a few titles that i buy any time i see them in the wild but only because they're my favorites and i'm a filthy hoarder. 

And naturally i buy undervalued ones that i know will go up,  and save them to trade later. 

10 hours ago, Splain said:

No way, that's awesome! Just on one wall? or a curved track to reach both walls? I guess that might be tricky with the TV.

Curved track! The track will be far enough from the shelves so that the angle of the ladder is sufficient to clear the tv stand. As it sits the tv only sticks out 3 inches farther than the shelves, but its getting replaced with an OLED screen when im done and that will take up even less depth. The tv stand only sticks out 8 inches farther than the shelves but it's so far down that the natural angle of the ladder will make it clear. 

The sharp TV will have to find another spot in my house though,  that coffee table is definitely in the way

2 hours ago, DefaultGen said:

Those shelves are sick. How long until you need to do the other two walls

My couch is too big to do the other two walls. So this is gonna have to be enough.  The entire NES, SNES, N64, and gamecube collections fit on 1.5 of the walls. The other half of that last wall will have books and other game memorabilia.  

32 minutes ago, Splain said:

Are you really doing a rolling ladder?

Yes! I'm getting a custom track made once the shelves are done. Its hard to tell from the photo, but thats a 12 foot ceiling. I cant reach the top shelves without a ladder

Man im so glad i randomly decided to log into nintendoage today to see if anyone updated the Stadium Events and Sharp TV threads. Sadly, no new posts there, but i found out about this! 

Glad to be here! I'm repairing 2 sharp TVs right now and i have a rebuilt one for sale too!

it was difficult and i failed several times but im finally in.

wow, i logged into NA today after barely visiting it twice a year for a while and saw all of the things going down! sorry i'd been so infrequent, but life pulls you where you need to be and not necessarily where you want to go.

my collection is still alive and kicking, and after 5 years of construction my "Beast's Castle Library" bookshelves will be done before the end of the year. Cant wait to install the rolling ladder!