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The best gaming cabinet...ever!

Published on 11th December 2006 by Ryan Garside

The ultimate gaming cabinet is, uh, ultimate!

With the influx of so many new consoles one of the most practical, yet often ignored, problems is where to actually store them all. Trying to cram a Nintendo Wii, 360 and PS3 underneath your television is nothing short of impossible. Throw in a couple of old-generation consoles and you end up with the wired version of spaghetti junction going on beneath your TV. One gamer has come up with an ingenious solution - a cabinet that fits them all plus their controllers!

The ingenious creation comes via the Flickr album of kriseattle22. It’s one of those pictures that requires very few words, with my only question being, how did the jammy bugger get all of the next generation consoles? I wonder what he would get for eBay’ing the cabinet?

In other news Kotaku is reporting a story about a crazy guy who has got a Call of Duty 3 inspired tattoo. Apparently the guy who got it was so inspired by the intense action of Call of Duty 3 that he just had to have a tattoo made. I’m not really one for tattoos, but surely this guy would have been more inspired by Call of Duty 2 considering it was a better game? Maybe he never played it. Check out the original forum post here (with the back of the box to prove he really did reference it).

For those who hoped this news piece would get less crazy, bad luck. GameJew, the Jewish Nintendo enthusiast renowned for singing songs about Mario and serenading senior Nintendo employees has released his first music video. Words can’t describe how crazy this is, think Joel Veich meets Monty Python, singing about Mario. Check it out here.

Finally, NBC 5 news is reporting that a mother, who bought a refurbished PSP memory card, actually found that it contained lots and lots of pornography. The mother, Sandra Hemm, was quite distressed: "Oh my goodness. I just, my stomach turned, you know. I just was sick. I just couldn't believe they had witnessed that." It is unclear how distressed her son was when she subsequently took the memory stick away.

Enough crazy news for today, give us your impressions over in the forums.

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r4tch3t 11th December 2006, 09:35

Nice, I want that cabinet, so long as I get the consoles too, me being so poor as to not even being able to afford a Wii.
And that COD tat, bonkers, I mean why? It's going to stay with him for life.

13000 11th December 2006, 09:41

Pretty nifty that cabinet. That tattoo just sucked though.

Bindibadgi 11th December 2006, 09:51

That cabnet is a genius idea, but he's filled it with whiney 80mm fans. Why does he need fans at all?? Plus the blue doesnt go with the wood; if he really wanted to pimp it out he'd put in some glass sheets for the consoles to sit on and a cathode or some LEDs along the plane.

I like the controller mountings, that's pretty damn awesome.

The TV is far too high though, surely you want it in a straight eyesight of when you're slumped on the sofa?

No cable tidying?

All that money and no half decent sound system?

[USRF]Obiwan 11th December 2006, 10:34

Am i the only one that was thinking of a real arcade (aka mame) cabinet, instead of a standard IKEA furniture?

mclean007 11th December 2006, 10:51

The woodwork isn't bad, but the full effect is pretty nasty - definitely function rather than form. And I agree about the excess bl00000000000 LED fans. Surely he's only ever going to be playing one console at a time, so the heat isn't going to be extreme. I would have done either a wood cabinet with a smoked or frosted glass door, or a full glass / plexi cabinet with side-lit shelving. I would have put a back panel on with some kind of cable management system, so the box would be sealed all the way round. Then I would either drill the shelves or leave space around them front and back, and fit a blowhole with one or two slow moving 120mm fans at the top to make a chimney drawing fresh air in through vents at the bottom.

zr_ox 11th December 2006, 11:08

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Originally Posted by Bindibadgi

The TV is far too high though, surely you want it in a straight eyesight of when you're slumped on the sofa?

Well if he is playing the Wii would it not be more of an advantage to have it at that level?

The cabinet sucks in my opinion. I mean it looks like Ikea junk with some holes cut for 80mm fans. This could be done much better....although the cost of buying all those consoles probably leaves him short of a few £££.

Bindibadgi 11th December 2006, 11:12

I totally agree with you guys, but then again, Bit-tech sets ridicuously high standards when it comes to modding. We are the Vouge of the modding industry and blue LED fans are oh-so-very-2003.

;) :D:D

DougEdey 11th December 2006, 11:30

I was expecting to see something along the lines of either a MAME cabinet or something like the system MAshie was making for historic PCs

mmorgue 11th December 2006, 12:26

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Originally Posted by article
a mother, who bought a refurbished PSP memory card, actually found that it contained lots and lots of pornography. The mother, Sandra Hemm, was quite distressed: "Oh my goodness. I just, my stomach turned, you know. I just was sick. I just couldn't believe they had witnessed that." It is unclear how distressed her son was when she subsequently took the memory stick away.

From the son's point of view, I'd say the Grinch stole his Christmas! :)

mikeuk2004 11th December 2006, 13:24

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Originally Posted by mmorgue

Quote:
Originally Posted by article
a mother, who bought a refurbished PSP memory card, actually found that it contained lots and lots of pornography. The mother, Sandra Hemm, was quite distressed: "Oh my goodness. I just, my stomach turned, you know. I just was sick. I just couldn't believe they had witnessed that." It is unclear how distressed her son was when she subsequently took the memory stick away.

From the son's point of view, I'd say the Grinch stole his Christmas! :)

Eh? where did that come from?

DougEdey 11th December 2006, 13:24

Thats on the news page. At the bottom

M4RTIN 11th December 2006, 13:32

meh, if consoles were more like their older versions they would be easy to stack. you can have a ps2 on the bottom, then a nes, then a 360, wii on that and finally a dreamcast on top..

i used to have something a bit like that one shown but more sideways so you had a gamecube, ps2, xbox on the bottom shelves, dreamcast, dvd and vhs on the next one up. tv on top. crappy 14" tv tho lol, kinda ruined the whole effect

mikeuk2004 11th December 2006, 13:32

Would help if I read it all and not just scanned and looked at the pretty pictures.

Why add that to the bottom of your news of a gaming cabinet???

Garside 11th December 2006, 13:56

Was just rounding up some of the more misc stories on the web :)

DXR_13KE 11th December 2006, 15:44

what is that console in the bottom... i don't recognize it....
it is a nice idea... it could be better done.... but it is the intention that counts. :D

Neogumbercules 11th December 2006, 17:13

Perhaps you are all avoiding it...but am I the ONLY ONE who watched that freaky video?

mikeuk2004 11th December 2006, 17:28

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Originally Posted by Neogumbercules
Perhaps you are all avoiding it...but am I the ONLY ONE who watched that freaky video?

mmmm now i have finished work and able to view the links. How to describe that video.............I dunno but im still stuned.

LVMike 11th December 2006, 18:20

the tat isnt a cod3 fan tat.... guy told his ink pusher he wanted a battle sceen on his are, pusher said bring in some art. So he did, a cod box. I think it looks good, as far as tatoos go, Hell of a lot better than some tribal arm band ****, at least in 50 years this one will still look like to (wrinkly old ) guys fighting on your arm

Duste 12th December 2006, 02:55

The concept of having a single cabinet made specifically for gaming consoles is awesome, but it's a pitty the result wasn't nicer.

As for the tattoo, I reckon it sucks to be honest. :/

That music completely freaked me out, too. :(

Generic42 12th December 2006, 05:17

Woot, it was a guy form Seattle, we got all the crazy rich gamer's here :D

It's not top-notch, but it's better than you've all got I bet