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Take a Tour of 16 Bit, My Retro Video Game Console Room.

Jun 27
1 min read

Updated: Nov 2

It took a motorcycle accident to motivate me into making this video of my curated retro gaming collection. I trashed my bike, and I'm lucky to be alive. (It was a freak occurrence, and thankfully no one else was involved.) Call me a quitter, but I'll never ride again.

I should have listened to my wife.
I should have listened to my wife.

Now that I'm ambulatory, I feel like I have a new lease on life, and I'm not putting things off any longer. Producing this tour was a footnote on a long list of stuff I've wanted to do. In a dramatic departure from my patented perfectionism, I banged out this walkthrough and blog entry in less than a day. I don't even know myself anymore.

Warm orange retro game room packed with vintage consoles, anime and fighting-game posters, glowing screens.

Retro game room with a Neo-Geo game shelf, Ghostbusters figures, Transformers boxes, and glowing lamps; retroinjection.com

Retro game room packed with anime and movie posters, action figures, glowing lamp, and CRTs showing The King of Fighters 2003 and Japanese Street Fighter II Turbo

Retro game room with arcade posters, shelves of figures and consoles, a console TV playing Ultraman, and a yellow-black gaming chair.

Retro gaming shrine with anime posters, toys, and a CRT showing SEGA; orange wall packed with framed collectibles.

Retro memorabilia room with shelves of games and toys, a blue poster-covered door, glowing ghost lights, and a Sony Wega Trinitron displaying Space Harrier on the Sega 32X.

Three-dimensional Placo Toys blow-mold Street Fighter II Guile poster on an orange wall, showing the muscular character kneeling in a fighting pose under a jet.

UPDATE: The photos above are more recent than the video, and do the room more justice, but here's my walkthrough anyway.


BONUS: If arcade cabinets are more to your liking than playing on a TV, join the club! Here's a look at my coin-op games. You can see the arcade in more detail here. This setup was at the previous house, and these behemoths are currently in storage. They'll have their day soon enough, and you can check out the new arcade here on Retro Injection. Spoiler alert: It'll be my biggest game room ever!



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Guest
Aug 28

Dang, that is really impressive!! Also, so sorry about your accident!

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Thank you on both counts!

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Dave Fife is the driving force behind retroinjection.com, a nostalgia blog focusing on the pop culture of the '80s and '90s. Retro Injection places an emphasis on movie reviews, classic video games and vintage toys. 

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