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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have boys.
Air hockey, foosball, pool table, theatre room and some pinball/arcade games.
2 of every console with tons of TVs and a few vr sets.

Our yard sucks but for 8 months or so lots of kids over[/quote]

Can you pleas share the logistics of using multiple consoles/TVs? I’d love to have several kids in one place to do some of the gaming they do together on xbox live or whatever, but I don’t know the best way to do it. Do you have a smaller tv that you move into the rec room? A couple of TVs on the wall like in the movies in news people’s offices? Thanks for any advice![/quote]

We have a theatre room with an 86" TV wall mounted.  on either side we have a 42" TV on simple black cordenzas (I think Ikea?).  Then we just have an X-rocker gaming chair in front of each 42" display.  We have on the ones with the speakers built in but you do not need that as most kids wear headphones to chat.  Ours were young when we built out our gaming room and used the audio in the chairs but now no one uses it - so you can just get the chairs without the speakers built in (a lot cheaper).  
Each 42" "station" has a switch, xbox and playtation.  We use hard wires for network to the games so they do not suck wifi up of the house (switches are only wifi).

We routed one of each console through the stereo so they can play on the big screen when they do sports or whatever.  You need to have powered HDMI splitters from the console to the smaller TV and to the big tv/receiver or else you get frames dropping/degradation.  They are like $15.

The two gaming stations are far enough apart that they cannot easily see them (prevents screen sniping in shooter games) and do not interfere with the main big screen.

You have to be super organized - so buy color controllers so you know what goes to what (we have red controllers for one side and white for the other); also charging docks for all controllers.

We did have to add two more outlets on that wall or else we would have powerstrips plugged into powerstrips and a fire hazard.

Everything is relatively easy to maintain now that we have a color coded "set up".  Before that was always a pain in the ass of "what goes to what system".

We easily have gotten our money back in enjoyment and safe/home enjoyment for the kids (and adults).

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This sounds amazing! Thank you for sharing the details—I’ve been wondering about how to accomplish this setup forever and this is really helpful.[/quote]

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