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games: Renegade Gaming Chair

July 8 2008 | WilHarris

Hello!

When you spend a lot of time sitting on your arse all day playing video games you realize just how important your set up is. Your TV, speaker system, chair or sofa, all contribute to your gaming.

Today I’m taking a look at the newest gaming chair to hit the UK, the ‘Ultimate Game Chair: Renegade’ from The Gaming Collection. It’s an all in one gaming, massage and home theatre chair, with built in speakers and adjustable vibration that will synch with your audio.

A hardcore gamers wet-dream? Or a gimmick for playboys with too much disposable income? Join me as I give it the once over.

Katharine

comments

Brittany

July 9th, 2008 - 4:31am

I have and love the Renegade Game Chair. I am a big game player and have all three consoles. I think it works best with action games, racing and shooting games. You really feel all of the game action and it is very comfortable. Everyone who plays video games will love this game chair - I promise!

Pierre

July 10th, 2008 - 6:41pm

Ahh.. nothing says \loneliness\ more than owning a gaming chair

Kevin C. Dorff

July 10th, 2008 - 9:41pm

I have an AK Rocker 100 that I bought 4+ (??) years ago. I’ve replaced the cover one it once (bought some extras on closeout at BestBuy). It has been a great gaming chair. Everybody who tries it just loves it. Even my cats love it It works well in both reclined and no-so-reclined positions (and everything in between). No fancy speakers or rumble, but it’s a much more reasonably priced chair than your fancy one. I am kind of in a place to replace it, so if you can review other gaming chairs I am interested in seeing the them. How about some of the newer AK models?

Sam

July 17th, 2008 - 9:35pm

Was refreshing to see review on gaming accessorys. nice job guys. keep it up

Joseph Carbone

August 30th, 2008 - 8:55am

…very creative review; greatly informative!

I love it when you people play around with this genre. Few things are as appealing as seeing people having fun, getting informed while you — he, she, or they — monkey around, all the while hearing your well-thought-out merits and faults of a thing. Nice to meet you Mr. Production Manager! Great show!!

To the chair, … wouldn’t give you more than two stars, and I would rather make them circles, or at least dim stars.

…looks like quite an annoying piece of engineering per the review. What killed any inkling I may have had toward purchasing one was the vibration noise, nonexistent lumber support or bump thereof, and that the chair will not get vertical; no way, not for me or from me. Not to mention, in today’s market, I would have expected a Dolby Digital chair system; oh, I just made mention–silly me. No Dolby Digital, what? Surely, they were not thinking Xbox or PlayStation during the design phase.

Thanks Katharine… & Mr. P.M.

Match

September 4th, 2008 - 6:08pm

seems pretty crappy to me, another otherwise normal item got tagged with “gaming” and received some fancy gadgets that don’t work properly. For 350 pounds you can get a damn good chair that’s probably far more comfortable than that one. Seeing that the vibration doesn’t work that well and could just as well be simulated by sitting on the subwoofer and the speakers in that chair obviously are misplaced, it’s all that remains: A normal chair with a few broken-by-design gadgets.

Patrick

November 29th, 2008 - 8:34pm

I got this for my birthday and it lacked what seems to be very important, 1) instructions that had more then just pictures and sentences longer then 5 words and 2) those black things she’s using to connect the audio cables, so help please?

KatharineFletcher

November 30th, 2008 - 12:17pm

Patrick - The black thing for connecting to the audio cables came in the box of the one we were sent for review, so I suggest you get in touch with the company (http://www.ultimategamechair.com/) or the place it was bought as it’s probably just been accidentally left out. Failing that you can probably pick one up fairly cheaply at a Maplins or something.

Ours didn’t come with instructions either, there was a PDF on their website but it seems to have been taken down. It wasn’t too tricky to work out though. Perhaps the only not obvious bit is needing to connect the wires between the seat and back. If you have a specific bit you’re stuck on then leave another line hear and I’ll see if I can remember what I did! Hope this helps

terry

December 5th, 2008 - 9:47am

it does seem crappy. and the video dont help if the chair is as crappy as the video i dont even want to try it

mike

January 3rd, 2009 - 3:37pm

i just purchased the chair it is big and heavy short cables but when you sit in it and put on a racing or shooter game it bring gaming to a new high i love this chair you feel the bumps in the road the motor reving up the bullet flying bye you head and once you start you dont want to stop would say for 250 buck beats all the other gaming chair out there once you try it you will fall in love