Inspired by Bill I wanted to take some casual and somewhat decent unedited photos of my study / rec room / video game area and the rest of the room so like Bill I can more easily refer to specific items when discussing them. Any questions please ask. Below is a tour of my study. I wonder what Matt's study / gaming area looks like and the ones of other readers out there.

Right of the TV area sits my Pioneer Digital / Analog Audio Video receiver. I lost the remote control but it has an excellent 'midnight' setting which allows me to have a nice and rich sound even on very low volumes. That comes in quite handy when playing videogames. On top sits my old battery depleted 6Gb iPod mini which houses some genius playlists and get refreshed every so often. It is connected to the receiver on the cd-input. The television is connected on the TV/Sat input and digital audio in is also connected up. The system powers 4 speakers. Two in front and two in back in every corner of the room. I need to get a subwoofer unit and a center speaker and my 5.1 system is complete. DTS compatible too.

Book cases standing right of the TV area. On the shelves are some DVD's, all my Gamecube and all my PSP games, all my XBOX 360 games that have come on disc and the original xbox games I tend to play most.

Book cases standing right of the TV area. On the shelves are some DVD's, all my Gamecube and all my PSP games, all my XBOX 360 games that have come on disc and the original xbox games I tend to play most.

Book cases standing right of the TV area. Shown here is part of the large comic book collection Elise and I have. Asterix, Suske & Wiske and a lot of Belgian/French comics US folk probably haven't heard of.

Book cases standing right of the TV area. My unhacked C64 game joystick. I have another one which I intend to hack and attach a proper keyboard to so that it will function as a REAL C64.

Book cases standing opposite of the TV area - rather in an L-shape wrapped around half the room actually. Shown are my UK Edge game magazines.

Book cases standing right of the TV area. Shown here is part of the large comic book collection Elise and I have. Asterix, Suske & Wiske and a lot of Belgian/French comics US folk probably haven't heard of. Here the Suske and Wiskes with the organge cover are shown.

The book cases come together in a special corner area that houses quite a few CD/DVD storage folders housing the disks of DC/XBOX & PSP1 & 2 games that I tend not to play that much. The original inlays and booklets are also stored in the folders and the cases sit in the attic.
Here is the Vectrex, ready to play and some stuff around it.

Book cases standing right of the TV area with some PC titles and the old GW-basic programmer's guide I used for quite a bit of GW/Quickbasic programming in the day.

Book cases standing right of the TV area with the xbox games I tend to play most. The other originals including inlays and manuals are stored in CD/DVD storage folders in the corner of the room. The boxes sit in the attic.

Corner area atop the Vectrex sits a PS2/XBox/PC compatible racing steering wheel. Not my cuppa tea actually as it is just so different from the real thing that I much rather race with a controller or cursor keys.
Atop the steering wheel sits my MsPacman arcade joystick.

Tilt head right. This photo is on its side. Thought I had put it up straight. Anyways this houses more DC/PS2 & PSX games I play regularly. On the botten two shelves and the top shelve sit quite a huge number of DVD/CD folders with various original disks, the accompanying manuals and the inlays.
Also stored in a couple of the sleeves/folders is a huge amount of homebrew DC software.

My desk area viewed from the doorway

My desk area viewed from the red recliner.

My desk area viewed from the red recliner. Right is the desk area, left is the doorway. Behind are all the bookcases going around the room.

Desk area with the Acer 3810M main system I use. A core2Duo 2.xGhz machine sporting 3Gb or RAM and a measily 8400 PCIe Nvidia graphics card. Upgrading this machine is virtually impossible.
It is running Vista Ultimate - but often I wish it would just run Windows XP.
Atop sit 4 LaCie Porsche external HD's and an old webcam. Next to it sits my HTC S620 in a cradle. A wired logitech Rumblepad 2 is for the Dell Optiplex GX270 that sits underneath the desk.
The cow is a candle.

Left of the desk area sits my all-in-one printer, right of it sits an external harddrive housing OSX software.

Left below the desk sits a Dell Optiplex GX270 with 1.6Gb of DDR2 memory and a 2.2Ghz PentiumIV CPU, a 6200 AGP Nvidia Graphics card and a DVD-burner. It is running an OEM Dell Windows XP license and various emulation software. It is qintuple booting various OSes and houses a huge harddisk. Among the OSes are Linux, OSX - various and the BeOS.
In between the CPU and the cabinet sit two 80Watt speakers that are connected to the Dell.

My desk area viewed from my chair. Two monitors grace the work surface. A 19" Acer 3:4 and a 22" Acer 16:10 monitor. A USB/DVI Aten KVM switch is connected to the Acer and the Pentium IV 3.4Ghz homebuilt machine. So is the 22" Acer screen.
Right of the screen sit two external harddrives, one filled with temporary downloads and media and the other is a Firewire one filled with backups. An old 100Mb ZIP drive sits in between as the Pentium IV 3.4Ghz homebuilt machine gives me access to a rather huge number of 100Mb zip disks.
A nice webcam and a good pair of Creative Desktop speakers.

On the right side of the desk on the floor sits a Pentium III machine including a Voodoo2 card. It has MS-DOS/Windows98 installed on it and it is connected to the 3:4 19" Acer monitor. The mouse and keyboard are stored above the 3.4Ghz selfbuilt machine right of it which has 2Gb of RAM, a large number of harddrives and a plethora of OSes. It has an Nvidia 6600GT graphics card and it shares the 19" Acer monitor and keyboard through the Aten KVM switch.

3.4Ghz selfbuilt machine right of it which has 2Gb of RAM, a large number of harddrives and a plethora of OSes. It has an Nvidia 6600GT graphics card and it shares the 19" Acer monitor and keyboard through the Aten KVM switch.

Part of the closet left of the chimney. Saturn games, DC games and PS2 games visible. Above and below sit a large number of DVD/CD folders/sleeves holding originals with their inserts and booklets. The boxes are sitting in the attic.

TV area viewed when standing behind the red recliner. Left of the TV sits an autoswitching RGB/Svideo switchbox that is connected to the telly's RGB/Scart connecter. Left of that stands my Xbox 360 with custom Lost Planet face plate.
The TV - a new Samsung LE26A330 26" - sits atop a 4 port gigabit ethernet/svideo/composite video/component video/analog audio/optical digital audio switch 42cm wide. Would fit perfectly under my pioneer audio receiver where it not that I don't have cables long enough for it to reach the telly. Right of the telly is my trusty old PAL dreamcast and right of that sits my purple gamecube atop it's gameboy player extension.

TV area viewed when standing behind the red recliner. Left of the TV sits an autoswitching RGB/Svideo switchbox that is connected to the telly's RGB/Scart connecter. Left of that stands my Xbox 360 with custom Lost Planet face plate.
The TV - a new Samsung LE26A330 26" - sits atop a 4 port gigabit ethernet/svideo/composite video/component video/analog audio/optical digital audio switch 42cm wide. Would fit perfectly under my pioneer audio receiver - but I don't have cables long enough for it to reach the telly if it sits there. Right of the telly is my trusty old PAL dreamcast and right of that sits my purple gamecube atop it's gameboy player extension.

An autoswitching RGB/Svideo switchbox that is connected to the telly's RGB/Scart connecter. It also supplies my TV with a working svideo-in as the unit converts svideo to rgb for me.

The TV - a new Samsung LE26A330 26" - sits atop a 4 port gigabit ethernet/svideo/composite video/component video/analog audio/optical digital audio switch 42cm wide. Would fit perfectly under my pioneer audio receiver but I don't have cables long enough for it to reach the telly if it sits there.

The old PAL dreamcast - notice the blue swirl.

A region free Pioneer DVD player - progressive scan PAL/NTSC modes. On RGB it gives a very clear picture. Nowhere near as noisy as the PS2, Xbox 360 or the original Xbox when playing DVD or CD.

My purple gamecube atop it's gameboy player extension. You can see an old flashcart sticking out - this houses a plethora of homebrew GBA software that is booted through the gameboy player on the GC.

Look at that incredible highscore MrCustard has acquired on Pinball FX. This is january 5th 2009.
Our own Bill and Force58 are also on the chart as am I.

The old PS2 sits underneath the telly. It is connected through component video and it has a special bootdisk that allows me to play games that are loaded upon the 120Gb harddrive that I have installed and connected to the Ethernet bay.
This way I have installed quite a bit of PS2 videogames. No modchip needed for this one. Perfectly legal.

The old Xbox sits on the right. It is connected with component video and it has a softmod that allows it to run various homebrew software including the famous Xbox media center. I've also managed to get Coinops - a port of Mame installed and running. Booting copied discs not possible though. But software can be installed onto the built in drive through the ftp function of de Xbox Media Center.
I also needed to softmod this Xbox because otherwise it would not have been possible to change the eprom setting to NTSC. PAL xboxes are able to output PAL component but for some reason Microsoft doesn't offer this. It is possible though and because the picture quality is so much better it is worth softmodding your console for.

The Saturn sits in one of the drawers and is easily taken out for a spin, so is the original PSX, as are the Nes, SNES, Genesis/Megadrive. There is also a c64 in the drawers. In the hallway outside the study sits a whole range of computers stored in plastic containers ready to be taken out and connected.