It’s Besta from Ikea. Specifically this part number…
202.459.59
That’s the one you see on top there. The bottom ones I bought years before. They may not have that size anymore but they definitely have the single frame above. You buy the shelves and the wall mount hardware separately.
It’s DVD case depth so perfect for video game storage except for NEO GEO AES. I love it because of the depth and how good they look when full. I will be labeling all my Super Famicom carts once I’m done with the shelving and will get some covers for N64 for the same labeling.
Here’s my setup with all my consoles hooked up (the Genesis, 32X, and PC Engine have all been modded to output s-video, and I have a scalable video switch mounted behind the CRT to hook all the systems up to it):
The Virtual Boy has the Virtual Boy Virtual Tap output mod, and is connected to the Extron scaler that I use to adjust the picture as good as I can get it (I bought the NTSC output version of the mod, not knowing I had a VGA connector on my TV, hence the scaler lol). Also the plasma HDTV is super reflective hence the black boxes I put in there. All the consoles I have either have Everdrives or ODEs, as I own no CD based games and only cartridges I actually intend to play (yes, I like all the 32X games I have lmao).
As you can see, I’m a huge Game & Watch fan, and have all of them minus the absolute most expensive ones (Egg, Climber widescreen, Mickey Mouse panorama, Super Mario Bros crystal screen, Balloon Fight crystal screen, and the Super Mario Bros F-1 prize). The Vectrex has a multicart and a buzz off kit installed. ROB the Robot needs repair and the bottom shelf of the one display case will be changed soon lol. I’m also very proud of my complete North American Virtual Boy set, complete in box.
I got the rest of the frames up and it turns out my collection is simply too big for the amount of space. I’m not super attached to my Xbox stuff so could keep that boxed but even then I’ve already got all my handheld stuff in plastic containers!
I think that means another $200 worth of frames, shelves and hardware. I don’t want to revisit this later on. Just want it all done now if possible.
I feel you, @DaveLong, with the shelves. I have console boxes shoved all over the place and am not happy with my current entertainment center. I’d to get a couple Kallax and mount some lights in each box for each console, then some more shelves to organize my boxes better and clean everything up.
I look forward to seeing all your games on those shelves when you get to it!
EDIT: Also I appreciate a fellow DK Bongo owner. Mine are in a drawer out of sight but I really like those goofy things lol
Ha! That’s actually two sets of Bongos! When my kids were still small we played Donkey Konga in multiplayer. I’m still a fan of Jungle Beat too!
I didn’t really understand how much my collection had grown in the last couple years during this move and clean out of the last place. I’d still been picking up retro games here and there but they don’t end up on shelves when you still aren’t settled. Now it’s become a lot clearer…
I’d really like to have my portable stuff, specifically all the boxed GBA, DS, and 3DS on these racks so hopefully with at least three more rows and four frames there will be enough room for that.
I parted ways with the majority of my PC game boxes. I can’t even imagine what this would be like if I still had all of those.
Yeah those PC boxes are HUGE. I did a big game selloff in 2018 (like $8,000 worth, paid some bills with that!), which basically wouldn’t fit in the long narrow room my wife has agreed I get to myself for all my nerd stuff lol.
I’m hoping as my nephew gets older I can play some of the old stuff with him if he’s interested, like Donkey Konga. The clapping kind of freaks out our cats though lol
The portables will probably be on my bottom shelf of that one Detolf - I have a bunch of DS Lites and DSis that I bought years ago on the cheap that I’d like to put on display.
I made this in mid 2024, buying this 100 piece cassette case holder, staining it with my wife’s help (because she has useful skills, I only know how to solder old electronics lol), then downloading various cassette arts (many from The Cover Project, although some of them I sourced elsewhere or made them myself. The ones I made myself are bad. Check out The Final Fantasy Legend there lmao) and printing them out, cutting them, and folding them up into the cassette cases. I also had to clip out the little posts for cassettes. As you can see, everything fits very well. I don’t have a 3D printer and didn’t want to shell out $100 for these, as nice as they’d be, so I cut out some little holders using cardstock. They work pretty well, and at least prevent the games from bouncing around in there. Obviously, the eReader, Warioware Twisted, Pokemon Pinball, and the Gameboy Camera won’t fit into cassette cases, hence why they’re on top.
It’s about 3am as I’m sitting in my games room in the dark typing away on the phone. Enjoy the very dark image of the messy set up. Can you guess what is there?
Gotcha. Well, all I can make out is the Wii and a white PS2. Beyond that, I can’t make out anything except maybe a Super NT to the left of the PS2? It’s hard to tell. Whatever is above the PS2, I cannot make heads or tails of.
You got some of the stuff in there. It is very hard to see in that shot but what there is…
Wii
Super NT
Mega SG
PC Engine CD interface unit
Consolised Neo Geo MVS
Saturn
Dreamcast in a custom case
Xbox Series X
X68000 mini
PlayStation One
White PS2
White slim PS2 on top of the other PS2
PS4
N64
Desktop PC(horizontal case)
And finally a Master System.
That’s not all my stuff either, to the side you can’t see is an Xbox 360 slim.
Which one is above the PS2s? Is that an MVS? I’m not familiar at all with that hardware so that’d make sense that I don’t recognize it at all. Regardless, impressive collection!
The MVS is under the surround sound center speaker. You can just about see the Neo SD flash cartridge in it behind the speaker.
At the moment my gaming set up is quite a mess.
Here’s the same area but taken with the lights on.
