While the unenlightened may hear "battle station" and think of some command console on a fighting vessel, true gamers know that a battle station is where your most heroic fights, your most death-defying feats, and your most incredible accomplishments all take place, gamepa🌃d in hand.
Most of us would be lucky to have a couch and a big screen TV to game on, but f൲or those with the means, a gamer station can take on a truly epic scale and scope. Flashing LED lights, curved glowing monitors, and dozens of surround-sound speaker꧃s are the hallmark of a gaming enthusiast's crib.
On the other side of the spectrum, we have the less fortunate gamer who ekes out a meager thrill on whatever they can scrounge up. Despite these battle stations' shoddy appearances we must always give them our✤ respect, for the call of games hearkens to every man, woman, and in between, and not all of them have the financial support to p💯lay on the most cutting edge technology available.
That said, some of these more homely set-ups are so bad they're downright da🦹ngerous.
Here a🌄re 10 battle stations to leave you in awe, and 10 more that will leave🤡 you in stitches. Or needing them.
21 The G𝄹amer Room We All Wish For (Yes!) ♌
W🐠e start off with the quintessential gamer pad. It's got everything you could ever want: a big, curved couch for everyone to get a good view of 🔴the action. Coupled with every console you can remember, delightful stands for headphones, and controllers so cords don't get all tangled — this setup is nuts. It's a giant co-op gamer's dream, and woud let to people have a serious night of gaming. For most of us, this would be the ideal living room.
It even comes with an ado🐈rab🅘le doggy to keep you company!
If you pay close attention, to the right of the TVs are cabinets filled to the brim with cartridges and discs for all those consoles you see before you. Tr🅷uly a magꦜnificent battle station anyone would be proud to own.
20 The Real Reason People Steal Grocery Car⛎ts (Ugh!) 🦋
As a direct contrast to the ideal gamer living room we have... ✨whatever this is. Whic🐷h is clearly an upturned grocery cart repurposed as a desk. A very cramped, uncomfortable desk with the world's oldest monitor perched precariously on top of it. It doesn't even have anywhere for the poor kid to use his dollar store mouse.
But at the same time, I feel for this kid. Here's soꦍmeone who's so into gaming he's willing to endure the unending ridicule of friends and family, not to mention an eventual herniated disc when he's older, just so he can game. Kudos to you kiddo, wherever you are — you're a true gamer and you should be proud.
19 💦 Gamer Room? More Like Gamer Theatre (Yes!)
As cool as that last room was, it's got nothing on this bad boy. That's a screen big en🔜ough to melt your eyeballs, and filled with speakers loud enough to make you feel like you'🎃re in the middle of Lollapalooza. But unlike Lollapalooza, you get to sit back and relax in plush leather accommodations, complete with controller stands and back and leg massagers.
Note the tablet on the left to control the entertai🌟nment center, and the bevy of consoles tucked away in the cubby holes beside subwoofers large enough to register on the Richter scale. Oh, and don't forget the LED spotted roof that makes it look like a starry night's sky.
18 ꧅༺ That's One Hot Rig... (Ugh!)
Yeesh. I don൩'t even know what to say about this heap. I mean, I know I've hear🦩d people say that flames make anything go faster, but this is like slapping flames on the side of a bus that's missing three out of four wheels.
It's hard to imagine a time when this would have been even remotely cool, but not a few short decades ago this might have convinced a stay-at-home housewife that i❀t was something to help little Jimmy get into these new-fangled computers she'd heard so much about. If it didn't leave Jimmy blind from the glaring paint-job, anyway.
More likely the cathode ray tube wi꧒ll turn out to be faulty and Jimmy will just go blind staring at the screen.
17 ♕ Anything ✱Is Better When It Has A Bar (Yes!)
I know we're still really early on this list, and you can barely see the actual battle station on the lef𒁃t side, but I'm already going to vote this as my top choice for a gamer room. Why? I believe it starts with a B, ends with an R, and is staring you right in the face with the promise of sweet, sweet inebriation.
It's got a bar. A. Bar. Right next to four classic arcade cabinets and what is surely the biggest damned TV off screen, but honestly none of that matters. This room will keep you both entertained and drunk. Really, there's nothing e💎lse any of us would ever need. Well, maybe if there were a jacuzzi too.
16 Th🦄is Seems Dangerous (Ugh!)
Here we have a battle station that's only moments away from becoming a murder scene. That massive CRT monitor is not only perched so precariously it seems moments away from dropping like the boulder it almost assuredly weighs, buꦺt is also angled directly over the pelvis of whoever would be foolish enough to climb into this death trap.
I don't understand why anyone would ever think this is a good idea, and least of all how anyone🔥 could ever remain calm enough to actually game on it. I'd be so nervous of my imminent demise that I'm sure I'd ignore whatever game this🎶 sad excuse for a rig is even capable of running.
15 It's Important To Co🔥lor Coordinate (Yes!)
I think we can all agree that this battle station is pretty frickin' sweet. First, you got the triple monitor set up that will make any first person shooter that much more amazing. Next, you've got what is clearly a bleeding-edge rig spitting out b♒its and bytes faster than anything else on the market with a transparent case so everyone can see what awesome gear you've strapped inside. Top it all off with a hardwood floor, chair, and incredible matching red LEDs, and you've got an impressive AF battle station.
My only complaint is the War of the Worlds💟 poster in the t𝕴op left corner. Crappy movie if I ever saw one.
14 ཧ The Battle Station🐠 Of Someone Who Has Given Up (Ugh!)
Oh, god, what have they done to you? I'm sure in a previous life you were a fine monitor, keyboard, mouse, and Xbox One, but now... I can't even bring forth words of co⛎mfort.
I know I started this thing saying we shouldn't judge people for their lackluster set ups, but there is absolutely no excuse for this. Look at the cigarettes, the piles of ash, the empty beer bottles and - is that... Why are those bottles in the back yellow? Someone tell m꧑e!
🏅If your battle station even looks half as bad as this, you need to get up, take a shower, and re-eva🔴luate every aspect of your life starting from birth until this very moment.
13 Not A 🧜Battไle Station - A Dance Studio (Yes!)
God, after that last one I need something to get the awful taste out of my mouth. This room should do nicely. It's not so much a game room as it is a dance studio. Clearly, this is a gamer that takes their Dance Dance Revolution very seriously.
While the lighting and stadium seating are certainly intended to ensure these gamers get the most out of their Rock Band experience, the gigantic cushions covering the dance floor reveal a secondary purpose to this room, and that is to game the night away. Plop down in Arabic-style opulence while you frag your friends 𒉰on a humongous TV screen. And when you own their sorry asses, shine a spotlight on their tears witꦏh the studio lighting.
12 There's Wall Mounted, And Thಌen There's This (Ugh!) 🥀
Huh. Well, there's cert💟ainly enough hardware to game here, and that glowing monitor seems to indicate that all the hardware works. I'm just not sure why it had to all be suspended from the cꦅeiling. It seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.
What if this person has cats? Or dogs? Or is just late for work one morning, bangs their head on the motherboard and causes that giant heat sink to unseat itself and tear the processor along with it? Or what if you j𓄧ust spill your coffee? My advice for battle station builders on a budget: keep everything on the ground.