If IKEA Made a Dedicated Gaming Table, Would You Buy It?

[kenobi65]

Have no fear, there's an IKEA in the Chicago area - Schaumberg to be more exact. And they're looking at putting one in Milwaukee.

Indeed, my sister drives down here from Wauwatosa all the time to go to the Schaumberg IKEA (they opened another one in the southwestern suburbs a year or two ago).

They're pretty big on the coasts, but they've just started to open stores up in the Midwest. They've now got one in the Twin Cities, one near Detroit, and one going up next year in Ohio.

Oh, and I voted "no". IME, IKEA quality's a little suspect, and I'm not in the market for a gaming table anyway, as I have a massive Amish-made dining-room table that works very well as a gaming table.

OTOH, if IKEA made a gaming table, you could count on it having a hysterical name, like "Nurd".

 

[Arnwyn]

No, since I already have an awesome "dedicated" gaming table (a pool table with special top-covers).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

How would an IKEA prefab table differ from a standard kitchen table, dining room table, computer desk, coffee table, or any number of multi-application types of furniture?

Seems like a table is a table....

As with all IKEA products, this one would require an Allen wrench to put it together.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

OTOH, if IKEA made a gaming table, you could count on it having a hysterical name, like "Nurd".

I think it's pronounced 'Nůrd'.

 

[airwalkrr]

The table would have to have a lot of utility for me to even consider it. And I would have to have a house with a dedicated gaming room (unless it was easily convertable into a regular dining table).

 

[Michael Silverbane]

Probably not. I'm not terribly fond of pressboard.

My gaming room (likewise my gaming table) are currently still in the design phase right now, but I'm looking at building the table primarily out of steel.

Later
silver

 

[NiTessine]

No. If a respectable furniture company made one, then I would consider it.

 

[Minicol]

I would if...

It was foldable. I don't game on a daily basis, and our current table is too small, we are somehow cramped. But when we don't game, it is so much place in my flat.

So could be. I'd like to see the design first though.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It was foldable. I don't game on a daily basis, and our current table is too small, we are somehow cramped. But when we don't game, it is so much place in my flat.

So could be. I'd like to see the design first though.

As I recall, IKEA has previously made a gaming table that had a checkers/chess board, a backgammon board and several others built in. Different boards were printed on both sides, so you'd just flip over the table top to play the other games.

The Nurd table would likely be something similar, I bet, with a big dry erase grid on one side and a dry erase board with no grid on the other.

And yeah, the game table they had before broke down pretty easily, IIRC, so it could be stashed away when not in use.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

I like the Nurd! I was a qualified maybe, but with a name like that, I might move to Yes, sight unseen.