Gaming Setups

The first real question to ask ourselves is what exactly the definitions of a "Gaming Setup."

Set·up  (sĕt′ŭp′) n.

1. The way in which something is constituted, arranged, or planned.

2. The gathering and organization of the equipment needed for an operation, procedure, or task.

Gaming  (gā′mĭng)

n.

1. The playing of games, especially video games.

Now if we are to put both of the definitions of "Gaming Setup"  then we will get "The gathering and organizing of equipment needed for the playing of video games." Now that we have an official definitions of a "Gaming Setup."  Gamers are a lot more organized than we thought they use to be. The original image was that they were these fat people on couches and bed that sat in front of a Tv for hours on end. In this new modern generation of console our Gamers are becoming more Professional, for instance Level cap is a great model for this Professional image. 

To give use a little more clarity on how we should setup or systems is more of an opinion, but in this I will show many different ways and styles of having your "Gaming Setup." There is many way that you can setup your systems. Major ways of just keeping yourself organized: 

• Where am I going to keep all of this stuff?
• Desks 
• Entertainment Centers
• Maintenance

Now you're probably wondering where or how you will have a setup with all the stuff you have. One way is to decide which one of these is better for you: a Desk or and Entertainment Center. Now each of these have pros/cons. The difference between the two is massive.

 

For desks you will be maximizing the littlests of space you have. For this instance having that much space on a desk is great to have. Their are many styles of desks that are out their on the market for instance their are "L-shaped" desks which are the best if you want a dual monitor setup and a Tv off in the corner of the desk. It maximize all the space you have. Also if you have a lot of paper work it helps with maintaining that as well.

Another added bonus of having a desk is that you are able to have either a desk chair or you can stand (standing is actually a lot healthier for you than you actually think, it keeps your spinal cord in alignment and makes sure you aren't hurting yourself for playing for to long in front of a screen.) The final thing of having a "L-shaped" desk it that you are able to be a lot more uncluttered than you are cluttered with an entertainment system

For the Entertainment system you lose a lot of space because of the furniture you have and that if you are recording that you don't have as much room to use that equipment as you would like. As for different sound qualities you are further away from the screen. Also you can choose different sound options such as having a choice of a headset or surround sound which isn't as accurate as the headset, but gives you a better feel for the game and the true hard work of capturing the sounds that were recorded or made.

Finally Maintenance is a key thing to have while in a "Gaming Setup." You want to manage your cord flow make sure you tag cords that go from one direction and to know what they do and how they manage that. Another note provide your cords and systems with proper air flow so that they do not overheat on you and they pretty much poop out on you. On that note when you are using your setup make sure you notice how hot everything runs so you don't have anything melt something else (it does happen and will if you're not careful.) Finally make sure everything is away from water or anything that could kill your systems or electronics. By that I mean use a power strip for you major expensive/ precise electronics.

If you have made sure all of this is good then you should be golden. Cord Maintenance is the key thing in a setup after that make sure you have all of your stuff organized in draws or a file. Something that will keep you organized use.

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9 Home Gaming Setups Better Than Yours

Most gamers have to make do with a drab setup comprising couch and standard plasma TV. There’s nothing wrong with that but on the other hand, take a look at nine of these ultimate games rooms below. These are some of the most elaborate and expensive, home gaming setups and video arcades ever. Playing PS3 or Xbox 360 at any one of these awesome gaming rooms would be like immersing yourself right into the game, rather than just playing it. You can literally feel like you’re in the cockpit, on the battlefield, or surrounded by zombies at any of these ridiculous game rooms.

“The Greatest Show On Earth”


What do millionaires do with all that money?…invest it?…travel?…give it away to charity? Well Jeremy Kipnis decided that he would build a home theater which he calls “the greatest show on earth” – and oh yeah…It only cost him a cool $6 million to build it. This amazing home theater features one of the largest screens ever installed in a home (18-feet wide), and also one of the greatest sound systems on the planet. The sound system consists of 16 subwoofers, 8 tower speakers, 10 tweeters, and 3 center channel speakers, all of which are powered by a group of 35 amps. It’s hard to even imagine what this theater would sound like during a movie or while playing video games. Speaking of video games, this in-home movie theater does include a Playstation 3, and it’s no doubt one of the most engaging video game experiences that any gamer could ever want. source

Three-Screen Theater


Are you kidding me!? This theater is ridiculous. Not only does it have a huge 109-inch Stewart Filmscreen with Runco VX-4000d DLP projector, but on each side of this screen are 2 more 50-inch NEC plasmas. What does this mean? Well…you can watch a movie, the big game, and play Xbox 360 all at the same time – talk about multitasking. The Xbox 360 is mounted right in the center console between two of the 11 comfortable recliners in the room, so you don’t even have to get up to change games. To add to the comfort of your gaming experience at this awesome media room, there is also a full wet-bar at the back of the room, so you can make yourself a drink to sip-on while you play. If you get tired of playing Xbox (why would you?), you can go shoot some pool at the adjacent game room or play on one of the arcade-style games. It’s a rough life! source

Dee Brown’s Game Room


Dee Brown is a former pro basketball player who played with the Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors, and the Orlando Magic. He has created what he calls “the ultimate game room” inside of his Orlando, Florida home. This game room is 1,000-square-feet in size, and it features not only multiple console video game systems, but also a nice collection of arcade games. Dee is able to easily switch between playing his Xbox, Playstation, or Nintendo consoles since they are all connected to a 4-port switch hidden beneath the sofa. There’s a 61-inch plasma for surfing the web, watching a movie, or for playing video games. This room also has 2 other smaller TVs, surround sound with 2 subwooofers, and an AMX touch-panel to control everything. A row of arcade-style games lines one of the walls of the game room, and are connected to the Internet, so Dee is able to get updates and see other people’s records from around the world for each particular game. He can even download various games to play in his arcade, and he has well-over 2,500 of them including classics like Asteroids, Centipede, and Donkey Kong Jr.source

Jerry Rice’s Home Theater




San Francisco 49er’s ex-wide receiver great Jerry Rice, and his 3 kids, play their video games in this awesome home theater custom built inside of his 20,000-square-foot home. Playing video games in this 30 by 25-foot, $200,000 home theater is about as good as it gets. The screen is an incredible 123-inches, and the 10,000 watt sound system is supposedly better than THX quality. The entire system is controlled by a 10-inch AMX touch-panel screen, which controls lighting, temperature, audio, video, and video games – it also controls the 80 hidden speakers placed throughout the entire house. What’s great about this game room is that it even has a snack bar for when you get hungry, which includes popcorn, drinks, and tons of candy. source

CinemaScope Theater




Stepping in to this home theater in Anniston, Alabama is almost like stepping into an actual movie theater, and in many ways, the technology used here is as good as a movie theater’s. This 28 by 35-foot theater/game room features an awesome 13-foot wide screen that is just slightly curved in order to provide the most accurate picture possible. This theater will play DVDs and games in CinemaScope format, which is the ultra-wide format that the large movie theaters use – it’s even wider than the widest plasmas and LCDs out there. What this means is that there are no more annoying black bars on the screen during movies. When he’s not watching a movie in his incredible home theater, William Wesson (the owner) likes to play his Xbox here, and what an experience it is. He describes it best by saying, “you really feel like you’re in there. A couple of fighter pilot games are awesome. In “Ghost Recon,” you’re actually out in the field, and you have the 360-degree field of sound, and you can hear and feel people approaching from behind you in the game.” source

Waterfall Home Theater


Inside of this 9,000-square-foot home in Danville, Pennsylvania, an amazing home theater will provide you with one of the best gaming experiences of your life. This media room was inspired by the homeowner’s award-winning backyard waterfalls and water garden. They decided to give this room a feeling of “the outdoors”, and they created one of the most unique home theaters in the United States. This theater has just about every feature that you can imagine, and on-top of being an incredible room to watch a movie, it also has dedicated hook-ups for their Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. This 16 by 26-foot media room features 3-tiers of seating, plus a unique 3-bench rounded seating area in the rear of the theater. Playing video games on the 95 by 54-inch screen, along with the $17,000 Runco VX-1000ci projector and 7.1 surround sound system, would be the experience of a lifetime for any true gamer out there. source

Luna City Arcade


This backyard arcade has to be one of the best game rooms in the world. This incredible game room was created by Peter Hirschberg, and it’s located in Linden, Virginia. He constructed a 2-story building for the arcade that’ about 2400-square-feet in size – bigger than many houses! Right now, Luna City Arcade houses over 60 arcade-style machines, along with some awesome video game memorabilia, and sweet lighting. Despite Luna City Arcade looking like a public arcade, it’s not, so don’t just show-up there and expect to play. Peter does host “game days” every few months, though, where people can come and play in the arcade – there’s even a dollar bill change machine, so you don’t have to bring a pocket full of quarters. If you’re unfortunate enough to not be able to check this place out in person, you can at least drool over the pictures. source

Gamer’s Paradise


This guy’s set-up would make any true gamer proud. This fully-equipped gaming station features a huge 58-inch Panasonic 1080p plasma TV, and just about every gaming console you can think of from the original Nintendo to the Wii. What good would this game room be without a good surround sound system? This one has got it with a Klipsch 5.1 surround, powered by a Harmon Kardon receiver. He’s even got 4 Guitar Hero axes that are ready to rock whenever you are, as well as the Rock Band drumset and mic (not shown). The only problem with this game room is being able to actually put down the controller at some point, which should be difficult considering there’s no shortage of gaming pleasure here.source

Backyard Arcade


If you’re looking for the ultimate game room, this one created by Barry Evans may just be it. He constructed a huge climate-controlled building in his own backyard that would put some professional video arcades to shame. This awesome game “room” features hundreds of video game consoles, tens of thousands of games, and tons of video game collectibles. Barry estimates his video game collection to be worth over $500,000. Just goes to show you that it pays to be a video game geek.

If you are inspired to improve your home gaming setup, you don’t need to spend as much as some of the above to get the results you want. Explore your options for tv cables, projector screens and vogels wall mounts for your existing flat screen TV.

Video game genres

There are many types of video games out their, knowing which one you would like the most would be a great thing to know. One way you can decide on choosing is by either trying out different game types. 
All of these are all possible genres below in the video game world. One way in which you can choose one of these to play is who you play with. If you have a set of friends ask them what they play. Also check out what the recent top video games in the US. To better understand what you like take this quiz to find out your likes and dislikes.
   
QUIZ

After you have chosen the genre of the video game. You also want to see what platforms are in your budget, but if you dont want to spend money at all their are free video games online on the computer. On sites like Miniclips, Crazymonkeygames.com, etc. Decide what you want to do and do it.

Deciding a console is a whole entire different task. Based on what genre you have chosen, those titles are based on what system to get. Such as Halo or Gears of war you would choose Xbox. For the Last of us or Little Big Planet choose PS3. 

HOW TO CHOOSE A CONSOLE

Below is the list of all possible game consoles:

List of all consoles

Below is a list of all possible genres of video games:

These are the genres a Videogame can be classified as:

• 4X (4X): A game that has four simple goals, which are eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate. Sub-genre of a Strategy Game.
• Action Adventure: A game that combines parts from Adventure Games and Action Games together.
• Action Game: A game that is primarily about combat.
• Action RPG: A game that combines parts from Role Playing Games and Action Adventure Games together. Sub-genre of a Role-playing Game.
• Adventure Game: A game that is about puzzle-solving, exploration, and narrative, and a relative (or total) absence of randomized combat.
• Art Game: A game that has Doing It for the Art as its motto.
• Artillery Game: A game that tasks the player with successfully aiming at an opponent with a ballistics trajectory under various conditions.
• Beat 'em Up: A game that has the player character use their fists against a large group of enemies. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Bizarre Puzzle Game: A Puzzle Game that is so weird and mind-defying that trying to label it with a genre is a puzzle in and of itself.
• Breaking Out: A game in which a paddle at the bottom of the screen bounces a ball to destroy blocks, and missing the ball results in the player losing a life.
• Bullet Hell: A vertically scrolling shooter that has every single enemy fire hundreds or thousands of projectiles on-screen at once at the player character, testing their dodging skills.
• Card Battle Game: A game in which players brings their own deck of cards to play.
• Casual Video Game: A game that is easy to learn and relatively simple by design.
• Cinematic Platform Game: A Platform Game that portrays itself more realistically. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Construction And Management Games: This type of game focuses on elements like gathering and management of resources, construction, expansion, research and exploration.
• Cute 'em Up: A Shoot Em Up that casts the enemies as cute things such as kittens, candy, fairies, and so on. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Dating Sim: A game in which the player courts at least one potential lover, and the player must keep track of every character's feelings about them and giving out presents, which will feel like a Role Playing Game.
• Digging Game: A game in which the player digs through terrain while minding falling objects.
• Digital Pinball Tables: Computerized pinball games, whether replicas of Physical Pinball Tables or original boards with features that can only exist in software.
• Driving Game: A game in which the player drives a vehicle of some kind.
• Eastern RPG: A usually Japanese game that tends to have a linear plot and a party of pre-defined characters written into said plot.
• Edutainment Game: A game that educates players as well as entertains them.
• Elimination Platformer: A game that requires players to use the concept of jumping from one platform to another to clear the entire level of enemies.
• Endless Running Game: A game about enduring an endless sequence of obstacles as long as possible.
• Exergaming: A game that encourages the player to exercise and to get into shape.
• Falling Blocks: A game in which blocks fall from the top of the screen, requiring the player to move and flip them so that they'll be arranged in a way to make them disappear, and if the blocks reach the top of the screen then the game ends.
• Fantasy Video Games: A game that features magic.
• Fighting Game: A game that has a martial arts duel. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• First-Person Shooter (FPS): A game in which the perspective is through the eyes of the player character, and the action revolves around shooting. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Flight Sim: A game in which the player flies an airplane as realistically as possible.
• Full Motion Video (Interactive Movie): A game that is based around video clips, and the player must press buttons at the right time, choose the right sequence of clips, or play other games using the video as a backdrop. Sub-genre of an Adventure Game.
• Hack and Slash: A game that has the player character wield primitive, close range melee weaponry, and the goal is to kill as many enemies as possible.
• Hidden Object Game: A game in which there is a photorealistic cluttered scene and the player must find and click on a series of objects in it.
• Horizontal Scrolling Shooter: A Shoot Em Up game that has a horizontal Auto-Scrolling Level, that is, to the left or right.
• Horror Video Games: A game that exploits the fears of players to cause anxiety, fear, and ultimately thrills.
• Idle Game: A genre of game defined by its gameplay, the primary feature of which is that the easiest way to win is to leave the game running by itself for long periods of time.
• Interactive Fiction: An Adventure Game in which the interaction is almost entirely text-based. Sub-genre of an Adventure Game.
• Light Gun Game: A game in which the player has a pointing device that resembles a gun and points it at the screen to shoot on-screen enemies. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Mad Marble Maze: A game in which the player rolls a round object of some kind from the beginning to the end of a level.
• Mascot Fighter: Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny is heavily featured.
• Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG): A game that has hundreds of players interacting with each other in the same world in real-time, which completing quests and leveling up. Sub-genre of a Role-Playing Game.
• Match Three Game: A game in which the player must match three objects of similar color/shape/species to eliminate said objects from the playing field.
• Maze Game : A game that takes place in a maze, and the player must either get from one side of the maze to the other, or clear it of every item that won't kill the player.
• Mecha Game: A game that focuses on Humongous Mecha for combat.
• Metroidvania: A game that combines parts from Adventure Action Games and Platform Games together.
• Minigame Game: A game that has a series of puzzles, challenges and games with very different requirements for defeating them.
• Miscellaneous Games: A page that contains games that nobody could identify the genre of. It really should be cleaned out.
• MUCK: A Multi-User Text-Oriented Game that emphasizes roleplaying and player intervention.
• Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA): A game that has teams of players competing with each other, typically using the point-and-click interface of a Real Time Strategy; but, unlike RTS games, players control only one Hero Unit instead of a military-industrial complex.
• Multi User Dungeon (MUD) and MOO: An Interactive Fiction that allows multiple (perhaps thousands) players to play at the same time.
• MUSH (Multi User Shared Hallucination): A MUD that is just a series of rooms, with players given the bare minimum of interaction systems and let loose to create and manage their own roleplaying.
• Party Game: A Minigame Game in which two to four players compete against each other in a boardgame-like environment.
• Platform Fighter: A fighting game that has great emphasis on maneuverability on dynamic stages.
• Platform Game (Platformer): A game that is about leaping over or onto enemy characters and between platforms of varying heights.
• Point-and-Click Game: A game in which player interacts with the environment by moving the mouse cursor over areas of the screen and clicking on them.
• Pop Up Video Games: A game in which clicking on background items results in cute animations.
• Programming Game: A game in which the player has little to no direct control over the game's events, and must set up the solution, then hit a "go" switch to activate the solution and see if it accomplishes the task correctly.
• Puzzle Game: A game that requires mental skill as well as, or instead of, dexterity and quick reflexes.
• Puzzle Platformer: A game that combines parts from Platform Games and Puzzle Games together.
• Racing Game: A game in which the player drives a vehicle of some kind and races against either other players or time.
• Rail Shooter: A game in which the computer controls most of your movement and you control the shots.
• Raising Sim: A game in which schedules for a game to process are applied, which in turn affects characters in the game, who then develop 'on their own' without constant user interference.
• Real Time Strategy (RTS): A game that focuses on construction and control of a fighting force in battle that takes place in real-time.
• Rhythm Game: A game that will flash commands, and the player has to input the same, synchronized to a beat or melody.
• Roguelike: A game that features Dungeon Crawling with randomly-generated environments randomly stocked from a huge list of monsters and items, Final Death, Anti-Grinding and is Nintendo Hard. Sub-genre of a Role-Playing Game.
• Role-Playing Game (RPG) — see also Tabletop Games (Tabletop RPG): A game in which the player controls a character or party of characters in a statistically abstracted way.
• Room Escape Game: A simplistic type of Point-and-Click Game consisting solely of puzzles to escape a room or series of rooms;
• Science Fiction Video Games: A game that explores a concept that does not exist at the present time, but it someday might.
• Shoot 'em Up (Shmups): A fixed-scrolling shooting game that is not three-dimensional. Sub-genre of an Action Game.
• Simulation Game (Sim): A game that simulates parts of a reality, fictional or real.
• Space Management Game: A game in which the player must figure out how to make the most out of as little space as possible.
• Sports Game: A game that simulates playing a traditional physical sport.
• Stealth-Based Game: A game in which the player character is too weak to take enemies head-on and must actively hide from them. Sub-genre of an Action-Adventure Game.
• Strategy Game: A game in which the player's strategical and/or tactical thinking is required in order to achieve victory.
• Strategy RPG (SRPG): A game that is a Role Playing Game, but it plays like a Turn Based Strategy or Real Time Strategy.
• Survival Horror: A game that features overwhelmed protagonist(s), oppressive atmosphere and a need for careful management of resources (ammo, health, etc.). Sub-genre of an Action-Adventure Game.
• Teamwork Puzzle Game: A game in which the player controls a group of characters, and progress frequently depends on puzzles making use of this fact.
• Third-Person Shooter (3PS/TPS): A game that combines parts of a First Person Shooter, 3D Platform Game and a Beat Em Up. Sub-Genre of an Action Game.
• Time Management Game: A game in which the player must perform task such as serving food and changing baby's diapers as fast as possible.
• Tower Defense: A game in which the player defends a building from monsters using other buildings, sometimes with a unit or two as back-up.
• Turn-Based Strategy (TBS): A game that is about abstract mechanics of efficiently waging war, exploiting resources and controlling huge groups of combatants all at once.
• Turn-Based Tactics: A game in which the player must control individual soldiers or vehicles.
• Vehicular Combat: A game that has the player control a normally armed motor vehicle and must destroy all enemies.
• Vertical Scrolling Shooter: A Shoot Em Up game that has a vertical Auto Scrolling Level, that is, up or down.
• Western RPG: A North American or European game that features a customizable featureless protagonist.
• Wrestling Game: A game that simulates Professional Wrestling, with grapples, holds and throws.

The beginning begins

The beginning begins

Video games, what are they? How did they begin? Who created them? Why do we play video games?

The answer to these question, aren't needing an answer, they need a definition:

Video Games: An electronic game in which players control images on a television or computer screen .

An electronic game played by means of image on a video screen and often emphasizing fast action.

An electronic device,  is a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically. By that it means that a video game require electronic devices to display a moving image on a tv or monitor of some sort.

Player is a person who plays games or a sport. 

Control to the power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events. To obtain value of something and tell it where to go.

Using all of these definitions to describe a video game seems challenging and really hard to do, to watch, control, and move. This altogether means that you are using almost all of your motor skills all at once. The history of all video games began back in the 1950's.

Video games were first out in arcades and restaurants, before they had consoles at home, like in today's world.

Having this as the definition leaves video games in a wide category and is a reason of choice to write about it. This creates a subject that needs to be ordered, because you could call watching television playing video games. That's why clarification is needed to be written about. 

Saying all of this means that video games are a multitasking thing that requires multiple things. It requires a TV, a console, a controller, a game, and power (most importantly). 

 

After discussing this hopefully this sentence is being read as well, hopefully its being enjoyed thoroughly and is to be continually reading further post that are posted in the future.