Designing the ultimate gamer's cabinet

by Ross Miller on Dec 9th 2006 5:25PM

We were very impressed by Flickr member kriseattle22's design for his gaming cabinet. Besides the finely crafted woodworking involved, the cabinet also featured hooks on each side for controller storage as well as two blue-lighted CPU fans for each console. The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii have all been elevated so that heat can be exhausted below, as well.

Let's use this as a template for the ultimate gamer's cabinet and improve upon the design. Some improvements, both serious and farcical, we'd like to see:

An upright Wii console. No offense to those who prefer the Wii lying flat, but the console's beauty comes from its vertical position.
We're also wagering that the elevated platform and fans are a little extreme for the light-on-high-tech Wii console.
Can we adjust the fans (and lighting) to be console specific? For example, have only the two adjacent fans on when the Xbox 360 is in use. And make them light up green.
Side- or top-mounted AA battery recharger units would rock.
Speaking of the Xbox 360, why not have a mini-fridge to house the power brick?*
The controller hooks are a nice touch, but the convenience of sitting down and turning on a console wirelessly is lost. How about a custom-built coffee table to complement the cabinet?
That NES up top looks mighty lonely ...
That bunny adjacent to the stand? Lose it -- Nabaztags are the way to go.

Every cabinet, obviously, should be tailored-made to the specific gamer and his or her respective consoles and console needs. If you were building yourself a console cabinet (or having one built for you), what would like to see on it?

[Via MAKE]

* Joystiq does not support the idea of placing any sort of technology into a refrigerator / freezer compartment.

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Tags: Flickr, gaming rig, GamingRig

Reader Comments (53)

You people are fools. Not all of us have the old consoles, and thats because we bought them when they first came out, played them, and over the years they were sold, or stopped working, or given away.

Most of the actual old school gamers, meaning those that played since the 8 bit days or earlier, don't own any old systems because they don't have a need to just show them off.

So don't be so uninformed and ignorant to assume that someone is not 'old school' because they don't display every single console they have.

I'm not sure what the whole point of this is. I mean, yes, he did work hard on this, but hasn't this been around the internet before? Either I'm suffering from that recent movie, or I have seen this somewhere. But honestly, who cares which systems he has out there? They could just be borrowed. They could be his. It doesn't really matter. Although, I must say that I am glad that I have the original NES. I've always thought the re-release looked kind of silly. ^_^