The $1000 Gaming Room Set Up

MasonicGamer.com: If you had £1000 or $1000 to spend on your ideal Gaming Room Set Up what would you spend it on? That was the challenge that MasonicGamer.com set each of our writers.

There was a couple of rules Listed below

Rules you have £1000 or $1000 to spend, you can not use eBay bid section but can use buy it now as long as the item will be available for at least 14 days, you can only buy items that are available to buy now and are in stock from other sites, you must buy a full set up and can’t add items you already own eg.. If you buy a PS3 you need to buy a TV, What would you spend £1000 or $1000 on?

Todays £1000 wish list is in the hands of Brad….

[idiealot]

Why only one picture?

[Septic]

That's not bad for £1000. Worth it in my opinion.

[NukaCola]

Thought to myself...worlds largest DS

[EeJLP-]

Did you even read the article?

He only 'spent' like £300 and got a bunch of old trash by today's standards.

This is the TV he suggested: A 14" Ferguson?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/F...

If the goal is the best £1000, why did he only spend ~£300?

[EeJLP-]

If I only had ~$1000, I'd buy this:

PlayStation 24" 3D Display, 240hz, Simulview, w/ 3D glasses, HDMI cable, MotorStorm: Apocalypse. $199 FS at Newegg and other places.

PS3 2500 series with Dragon Age $180
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Son...

+$30 preorder at Newegg - God of War Saga Dual Pack - 5 God of Wars (God of War I, II, III, Chains of Olympus PSN, Ghost of Sparta PSN) = $410

**Resell Dragon Age for ~$10.**

Assuming ~$15 each, even though you could find better deals, you can then buy ~40 more games...
Example: (or whatever you like)
Assassins Creed II
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Batman Arkham Asylum GotY or Arkham City
Battlefield Bad Company or BBC2
BioShock
BioShock 2
Brutal Legend
Burnout Paradise
Call of Duty Black Ops
Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Civilization Revolution
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
Gran Turismo 5
GTA IV Complete Edition
Heavy Rain: Director's Cut
ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Infamous or inf2
Just Cause 2
Killzone 2
Killzone 3
LA Noire Complete Edition
LittleBigPlanet 2 Special Edition
Mass Effect 2
Metal Gear Solid Collection (2, 3, PW)
Metal Gear Solid 4
MotorStorm Pacific Rift
The Orange Box (Half-Life 2, ep. 1, ep. 2, Portal)
Portal 2
R&CF ToD
R&CF ACiT
Red Dead Redemption GotY Edition
Resistance Fall of Man
Resistance 2
Resistance 3
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

[MasonicGamer]

@EeJLP Did you read the Article? If you did you would see that I went down the road of reliving my youth, You have picked up on the TV but their was a reason for buying that TV, it was a smilier TV to the one I received with my NES.

If you read the end I closed by saying that if you was to buy all the items new and in the day it would have set you back £1300+ but today it all came in at under £300.

Retro Is not Trash, without these classic consoles and games do you think you would be playing your beloved PS3 or 360? A lot of the games that first appeared on these systems have been reborn today. If you look back to the PS1 you will see that all be it the graphics are a lot better etc... you are still playing the same games today, Tomb Raider, Wipeout to name just two.

All the above is written quite clearly in the article....

I do like your list above though, thanks for getting involved :)

[EeJLP-]

@Mason - I think you should have came up with the full $1000 (in today's money) though, that sounded like the main point to the article. Throw in what games you'd buy, or accessories, or an arcade machine, etc.

For my list, I was going to go with a bigger TV with 7.1 surround sound, but that would be pretty much all the money after getting the system and I'd be stuck playing Dragon Age in 7.1 surround sound for $1000. So I just went with the Sony 24". Pretty damn good deal for 1080p, 3D, game, glasses, & HDMI included, etc. on a limited budget. Then there was a bunch of money left over for games.

As far as me calling your list trash goes: That TV is trash IMO, I'm somewhat surprised anyone allows it to continue to exist. Retro or not, why would you want a tiny SD ~1970s looking TV? For the games and old systems, I've been gaming for around 25 years.. Atari, NES, Gameboy, SNES, Genesis, etc. etc. etc. I've owned or played nearly every system except the very unpopular ones. Yea, they were nice back in the day, and some games can be fun to jump back into every once in a while, but 99.999% of the time I'd rather play a modern game than to go back to Atari. Also, all those old consoles (however many you'd buy with the full 1000) are going to take up a ton of space. I'd just rather stick with 1 console and nice sized stack of good modern games with that budget.

[Sashamaz]

The rest of the house looks empty (from that picture at least)

[Kran]

I uh.... sort of already have one...

I got a 32" 1080P HDTV, a PS3, an Xbox 360, a gaming PC, a PS Vita, a whole collection of games, a HD-PVR, an OnLive console and Nintendo DS Lite should I want to use them, my own sofa that reclines, posters on my favorite colour wall...

But if you're willing to give me £1000, i do need a new desk chair :D

And make it £1000 please as it's worth a lot more money than $1000 xD

[Urbz1988]

I guess sum ppl don't believe in the word "overkill".

[lashes2ashes]

Crap I got way more than that in my game room between my tv and my 7.1 audio I'm at about 3000$ than factor in systems, seating and storage. Thank god I have some other hobbys or I would never have had a wife and kid. But if I had another grand laying around a gamer fridge would be nice lol.

[guitarded77]

I was gonna write a similar piece about a year ago... I have scratched out several different set-ups for $1,000 dollars. Depends on how big of a monitor you want. I have a 42", 40", 32" and 24" displays in my home, and I really love gaming on the 24" 3D monitor. If Sony does a price drop on the new PS3 SKU and Wii U comes in at $300, someone just jumping into gaming could pick up all three HD consoles and a nice monitor for about $1k... also get a cheap computer audio system to improve sound. If they want to commit to one system, they can get all the accessories and a nice catalog of games... maybe a better display too. As the generation gets older, your dollar goes a lot further. I know I've spent over $10k this gen, but I've had more fun than money spent.

[MasonicGamer]

You Really need to read Oscars follow up tomorrow. A grand is not a lot of money when it come to tech has he soon found out. But he did find some bargans out there thou.

As for me I'm retro all the way :) and I am going to do a follow up and put my hand in my pocket and buy all the items I listed :)

[neutralgamer19]

$hit i bought a 2,500 50 inch samsung 3d tv a few years ago to play 3d ps3 games specifically kz3 lol So i already have miore than that in my set up add on surround sound and all the games woooooooooooo im in the thousands easyyyyyyyyy

[SpecialK]

Is £1000 really that much to spend on what is basically an entire entertainment system?

Go back a few years and a decent 42" HDTV would set you back a good £900 all on its own, even now really if you want a nice one you have to be willing to spend a bit as the cheaper models don't always come with amazing panels.

Then youve got the console with at least 2 controllers, a launch ps3 was something like £425, then youve got to buy £40 games.

Then if you want decent sound you have to splash out on some speakers or headphones.

You could do it all somewhat cheapish now with a £500 big HDTV, games console then games but it still ends up a lot.

[greenpowerz]

Some people say overkill and I agree if you're buying cheap junk.

I'm a noob home theater enthusiast and my HDMI cables and power treatment costs more than that.

Is this article a joke? My upper midrange AVR pio vsx1020 k I purchased for the 360 costed over half that. The RTI A7's, CSI A6 RTI A3 is almost twice the amount talked about. The 46" LCD from Samsung almost twice the amount.

And yes this my idea what I need and bought for gaming alone. I'm not bragging about my stuff because It's nothing compared to real gear but it is quality stuff.

[MasonicGamer]

I can remember reading reports on tests on HDMI cables, they tested $1 cables and cables costing $150 guess what there was no difference between the two...

Will try and find the test and add it to this post...

It was on one the big Tech sites and was picked up on quite a few blogs at the time....

[kma2k]

I ran that "test" at my house, went to best buy & bougth the bes cables they had & bought the cheapest ones. I had 4 people in the room & switched back & forth at random on the cables & no one could definatively tell the differnce...i rerturned both sets the next day & order the cheapy ones from amazon they work great!

[greenpowerz]

Used comcast and radioshack high speed HDMI cables and purchased the Monster 1000HD HDMI and seen sharper color and what seemed to be smoother performance resulting in a sharper picture when lots on screen is going on.

I've heard the *eye test* mumbo jumbo from monster to haters and or testers that say no difference. Cheaper cables look milky to me, said in another way seem to have less contrast with choppier performance

[kma2k]

$1,000.00 shit i passed that long ago. If we were talking $100,000.00 then that could be fun.

Hell just my TV was almost $1000.00

[capcock]

xbox? epic fail

[dragon82]

My TV alone destroys that budget. :(

[black911]

I have the samsung PN51E8000 $2000 ps3 and a HP all in one PC.

[DudeJets]

1000 that's puny my audio set up alone was 10,000 :(

[mochachino]

$1000 is enough for a gaming set-up, it can't even buy a proper HDTV, let alone surround sound and games.