- Hey guys, Metal Jesus here. Now, it is 2020 and I have a new house and you know what that means;
I have a new game room. Let's take a look. (upbeat music) Now before we get started, I
do have to clarify something. And that is, when I say game room, well, it's not really accurate because when my wife and I bought this house, she was very cool and she told me, Hey, you can take the entire first floor. So this tour is actually,
well, it's three game rooms plus some extra stuff. And what's cool about this is that because I have so much room
now, I'm able to unpack and display stuff that I
have never shown in a video. So this is gonna be very cool. So let's go ahead and start
with the main game room. You see it here, although this
is not how it normally looks. It normally looks like this. So as you see here, one
of the things I love to do in my game room is have
a bunch of colored LEDs and really be able to set the mood and the atmosphere how I like to have it. So on the left side of the
room where I have the couch I have a bunch of Phillip Hue lights both in the ceiling and also as a rope that's around the
television and also behind that entertainment center. And then in the bar area,
I have a different set of LEDs I can control as well. And when it came time for me to re-think how I wanted all of this to look, one of the goals that I
had is I didn't really wanna just jam it full of random stuff because as you guys know
in my previous house the space was much smaller and I was utilizing it very well, but it was almost claustrophobic. There was too much stuff
in every single space. It was admittedly cool
looking, but it was a lot. And so in my new house, one of the things I really wanted to do
which was open things up and not fill it with stuff everywhere. I wanted to let it breathe because I film down here but I
also have my friends over and I hang out down here. I want it to be a little
bit more spacious. And because the bar was already here when we bought the house, it really kind of facilitated this idea and made me rethink,
okay, how do I actually wanna organize all this? I also took the advice of you guys when it came time on
how to organize my room, and you guys overwhelmingly suggested that I break it up into consoles versus PC and that's what you see here. It's all consoles and console games. (upbeat music) And I really love this corner over here that has both my stand-up
main arcade machine as well as the newly
acquired GameCube kiosk. And it's great because
when I have people over, there's plenty of room for
people to be on both machines and not feel cramped. In my previous game room,
the main arcade machine was cool to have, but it just was cramped, it was hard to get back there. It was hard to even turn it on, let alone to stand in front
of it and actually play games. Now, speaking of the
bar, this was something that I've never had in a
house that I've owned before and this was really fun to set up. As you'll see here, I took the opportunity and put the Vectrex sitting on the bar just ready to be walked
up and played as well. I thought that was a really cool idea. It's got the multi-card in there so it basically has every Vectrex game ever made on it plus some Homebrew games. You'll see that I also have
the CapCom Home Arcade unit sitting there which is
perfect for two players sitting at the bar. And then right now on the TV I have the Super Nintendo mini hooked
up, but I'm using the wireless 8BitDo controllers
which is really nice because there's no wire to
go across that big gap there. And I'll probably hook up the other mini consoles here as well. Maybe put a little simple switch so people can go back and forth. Or I can put on a game if
people wanna watch something or maybe some music videos. Probably one of my
favorite things I've added is this Marshall stack amp, or is it? If you open it up, you
find out it is actually a refrigerator stocked with
beer and other beverages. How cool is that? - [Kids] Yaaay! - And then resting on top
of the Marshall refrigerator is my trusty 1981 Gibson Les Paul custom that I've had for over two decades now. It's been through a
lot, but it still rocks. You gotta love these Atari shot glasses. These are perfect if
Drunken Master Paul's over and he wants to step up the partying. A nice little bonus of this bar area is that there's tons and tons of storage so as you see here, I can put kind of all of the odds and ends
that I typically use when I'm messing around with my consoles, whether they're power strips
or wires or what have you. Plus there's lots of
room here for me to put storage for things like the
handhelds and other cartridges, just really anything I need. So all total in this room
I have three televisions hooked up and ready to go, depending on the console
and the connection type. So I have my trusty CRT
which I primarily use for really old systems that either want an RF signal like the original Atari and the ColecoVision
and the Intellivision. Or if I wanna play likened games like on the PlayStation one or two. And then I have the two 4K televisions for pretty much everything else. You see the larger one here, and right now it's got hooked up a PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X and the Nintendo Switch. And this is where my
stereo is set up as well including the turn table. Over here I'm highlighting
some of my current favorite consoles and some
of the more interesting and weird ones that I
have in my collection. They're really fun to look
at and put on display. But I could, at a moment's notice, hook any of these up and
play them very quickly. And it's really important
for me to be able to do that because while this is a cool game room, I need it to be functional because I am constantly making
videos and capturing gameplay footage across
40 years worth of games. This shelf is cool because it highlights some of the handhelds in my collection. Many of these are modded in some way. Either they're backlit
so they're much improved over the original, or in the
case of the GameBoy Advance, well, that's running
a completely different operating system; it's
actually an emulator. (upbeat music) Let's go ahead and move on down the hall to the other rooms. But first we're gonna
stop under the stairs. People ask about my band
and you see some of the band equipment here so
we've got a bunch of guitars as well as my wife's drum kit in there. Those are ready to go
in case we got a gig. And then there's this closet
here that, as you see, is filled with a bunch of accessories. So again, I'm keeping this
close to the other room because you never know if you need to grab a third party controller
or some sort of adapter. This is filled with grips and all sorts of random stuff in here,
so just more storage. At the end of the hallway I
had this really narrow closet that I didn't know what to do with and I decided that's where I was gonna put all my PSP and Vita games. I thought about trying to
cram this into the main room, but again, I didn't want
to just clutter things for clutter's sake. So put these down at the hallway here. It's not that far of
a walk if I need to go and pick out some awesome
PSP or Vita games to play. Now, let's go ahead and take a look at the second largest room. And this is a room that I'm really kind of calling my office. Although, the way I'm
setting each one of these up is that I can film in all three of them. And that's the way that
they are organized, that's the way that they're designed, that's the way that they're gonna be lit. And so yes I do all of
my video editing here and the voiceover that you hear right now. But I'm also gonna be shooting
videos in here as well. And so this is the start of
my big box PC game collection and this was really fun to dig into because for years and years now, a huge portion of my big
box PC game collection was just sitting in
storage 'cause I didn't have any place to display it. So now I'm able to dig into it and finally put it on shelves. I do wanna be clear though that when I say big box PC, I'm really referring to personal computers that existed mostly in the 80's and the 90's. So this is a huge mix of
MS-DOS, Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari home computers, just everything. And so right now, everything's
kinda mixed together. I haven't really decided exactly how I'm gonna organize this so love to know what you guys
think because I don't think alphabetized is gonna be the way to go. There's just too many of them. Maybe by system or computer,
something like that. In the corner here, you see
my trusty Ibanez guitar. I love this guitar; it's
my main gigging guitar because it's a guitar that
you can just thrash around and it stays in tune, it's brilliant. And here is my Boss Katana
amp which I absolutely love because it's so versatile. You can actually control the wattage so it's perfect for
just practicing at home or if you're gonna be on stage. Plus it's got all the
amp and effects modeling so sounds fantastic. I'll have to do a video
on it in the future. Speaking of music, here's where
I keep all my vinyl records. And here's my little
shrine to Sierra online, both popular titles as
well as some really weird and obscure ones. I'm pretty sure I'm one of the few people that remembers Urban Runner, Alien Legacy, Battle Bugs, and Space Bugs. There's a really nice storage area behind these closet doors here. Tons of room back here
for empty console boxes. And then in these bins, I use Ziploc bags to try to organize and make
sense of this entire mess here. So on the top here, I primarily have a bunch of power cables. And as you can imagine, 40
years worth of consoles, there are a lot of different types. It's nice having them all in one drawer. Below that are a bunch of video cables that I might need depending
on the system I'm playing. In the corner here, I have set up an area for classic PC gaming. So on the bottom there,
you see the two old Windows machines I have;
Windows 98 and Windows XP. There's also the Amiga
and the Commodore 64. But in my old space,
I didn't have anything quite like this so I'm trying to make it so that I can very quickly set up an old computer system here to
either capture footage or play games or maybe
even one day stream. And here is my main work computer which, as you can see, is a 27 inch iMac. Now, the reason why I use this is because I prefer to use Final Cut Pro 10. In the past, I've used
other video editing software like Premiere and Vegas, stuff like that. But I like Final Cut because it's faster and in my experience,
it's been more stable. But I do have a fairly
modern Dell laptop here that primarily gets used for Steam, or if I need something
that's very Windows specific, this is available. (upbeat music) Let's go ahead and
check out the third room which is a lot of fun
because it's basically overflow of everything that
didn't fit in the other ones. And this is really cool
because this is where I'm able to put out stuff that
would normally be in boxes. Stuff that I may not
need to get access to, but it's cool to show. So that wall right
there is jam packed full of more big box PC games. It's funny because if you saw that video a couple years ago where I got those 600 big box PC games,
well, they came with a ton of Start Trek games. So finally I'm able to
put those on a shelf here. So many Star Trek games I
had no idea even existed. Sadly, we need to pour
one out in remembrance of the awesome company called Any Box that used to release brand new PC games in the big box collector's editions here. You see, I think 10 of them right here. Sadly, they no longer make these. This shelf right here has
a bunch of Atari games, both 2600, 5200 and 7800. There are some Intellivision games as well as some game related novels. And then right below that
are a bunch of arcade sticks. This lower shelf here is
got a lot of fun stuff in it including, as you see
in the upper left there, all of those Retro Gamer magazines. Below that you have a
bunch of strategy guides. And then below that and to the right are just a ton of Retro Gaming magazines, both for consoles and also for PC. So you'll see things like
Game Informer magazine, a bunch of Nintendo Powers
are in there, plus PC Gamers. It's just a mishmash of
little of everything. And I love collecting magazines. I've been doing it for years. I've bought lots off of
people from Craigslist and just have never had the
space to actually put them out. So it's cool to be able
to just walk in here and grab a really old one
and take a trip back in time. And then to the right of that is something that most of you have never seen because it's been in boxes for probably 14 years. And that is my music CD collection. As I've mentioned before, I
used to work in a record store during the grunge era in Seattle. And so working in that store, I got access to a bunch of really cool stuff. Now, originally, my CD collection was way bigger than this,
but I had a garage sale a long time ago, sold a bunch of them. But I kept the ones that I really loved or I thought were really interesting or maybe would be hard
to find in the future. And so there's just a
mix of favorite albums and stuff that, again,
might be kinda hard to find including my own release
which came out on CD. So cool to have that in the collection. Yes, on there is the original
version of my theme song. As I'm sure you've noticed
throughout this video, I've also been able to dig out of storage and display a lot of the action figures that I have in my collection,
which again, is very cool. Most of these have not been
displayed in, you know, a decade or more. On this shelf is where I'm
storing a lot of my movies, both the PSP UMD movies there at the top, as well as music DVDs right there. And then when you get a little bit lower, it starts getting into stuff like anime including something that is pretty special and close to my heart
which is Bubble Gum Crisis. So I used to work at the company that actually published that. That was a really cool time. And if you haven't seen
Bubble Gum Crisis before, you should definitely check it out. It's pretty cool. So guys, that is a quick look at my new and improved game room for 2020. Now, I've said it in
previous game room tours and I'll say it again
here that some of the coolest stuff in my game collection has actually come from viewers like you. Other collectors have sold me stuff, we've done trades, people have donated, and so much cool stuff in my game room is because of the awesome people who have watched my videos, so I
really really appreciate it. Now, if you have more questions
about my game room set up or a specific thing that
you saw in the background that I maybe didn't cover, go ahead and leave a comment down below and I will try to answer it. All right guys, I wanna
thank you very much for watching this video. Thank you for subscribing, and take care.
