Shadow's RoD - Finally, progress!

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Lately, I've been expressing thoughts of getting rid of large portions of my collection because it's sitting around in boxes not doing anything. We moved into the house just over a year ago, and we've done nothing with the collection since then. We're constantly catching up on bills, so additions to it have even been incremental at best. My wife wanted to do something for my birthday, and she's been irked at how I've been having to move things in front of the room to even get around in it, so she decided to start getting a shelving system setup. It's nothing fancy, but it takes care of my #1 concern: having all of my games on the floor with problematic cats in the house.

While we were putting the shelving up, one of the cats decided to walk across a large portion of loose SNES games my wife had moved to get to the wall. He freaked out and started trying to run off. It doesn't help that he's a 25lb cat with little grace, and he ended up putting a crease in my Lucienne's Quest box. 
It doesn't look horrible, but my wife and I made sure to put up all of my expensive Sega and 3DO items on the shelf that night.

Shortly after move-in (2/25/2012):



3/3/2013:

New Shelving:


Rest of Room:






Spillover (not counting the table in the living room covered, or the Current Generation items in my living room):

[Shadow Kisuragi]

If anyone needs a system box for Xbox 360 or PS3, let me know...I've got 5 empty PS3 boxes and 3 empty Xbox 360 boxes, plus another at work. I tend to pick them up before they get tossed out at work.

That's only half of the Genesis games up on the shelf. If anyone's interested in the shelving, the shelves are 96" and $20 each at Lowe's. The steel-colored braces end up being like $4 each (I think), and the middle support bar isn't needed - the shelves will hold 300+ lbs without that middle support. My wife ended up spending ~$100 on the entire deal, and it will support another 2 shelves. I'll be able to get another set across that wall with a little extra space, plus I'll have room at the top for my system boxes or, for when we have some money later, store display signs for the various systems.

We've also decided that I need to start completing some of my systems - I only have ~10 32X games left, with only 1 expensive title left (Pitfall 32X w/ poster). Time to finally knock out that goal.

[nupoile]

Glad you're getting a chance to work on that. It's a bummer when you can't get to or use your collection, I know all about that.

Another good thing about this is now I'll be able to put up pictures of my collection, It's probably closer in neatness to yours than the other super neat and tidy collections being put up lately 

[Shadow Kisuragi]

I know I'll get asked...
In the picture with all of the system boxes and other large boxes on the left - almost all of those are system boxes. There's a few large CE boxes over there, but those are all going to go up on the shelf here shortly.

[techwizard]

awesome to finally get everything organized! the shelves look good so far, i've got the same ones but smaller for my currently hooked up systems below the tv, they work really well.

[Izret101]

WHERE IS DKC SNES!?!?!?!?

[Shadow Kisuragi]

It's there, and it brought a friend:


For Blck and the rest of the N64 crew:


If anyone's got the SNES one CIB to make it a trifecta, LMK:

[Duke.Togo]

Looking good! I bet if feels pretty nice to make some progress.

[techwizard]

love those n64 system boxes

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Wish I had more of the N64 system boxes. I'd love to collect all of the other colors some time.

[engel762]

I'd love more system boxes, but space is an issue for me :/  Although I think I might be able to squeeze an NES and SNES box in if I come across one...

[blcklblskt]

I've always loved the colored N64 systems and their boxes, but I unfortunately only own the original console and the Star Wars console boxed.  As always, awesome stuff Shadow!

[NES_Rules]

How do those strategy guides/magazines not fall over?
Anytime I get a stack of magazines over a foot tall, it slowly topples.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

...the stack on the right actually did fall over between my wife and the cat. However, there's a ton of weight on it, which prevents the pile itself from falling. They can't slide if they're being pushed down.

[GamerNick]

ahh I was going to say it's magic!! But no just common math :-P