The gaming room is the most intentionally designed space in most homes — the setup that receives the most attention, the most investment, the most considered arrangement of peripherals and lighting. But the walls are frequently an afterthought: a blank white expanse above a monitor worth more than most people's sofas, or a generic poster from a supermarket that communicates nothing about the specific gaming history of the person in front of the screen. This guide covers everything: the confirmed 98types video game posters that work for every type of gaming setup, room-by-room recommendations, complete gallery wall combinations using the buy 3 get 1 free offer, and the design principles that make a gaming room wall actually work.

All gaming prints in this guide are available from 98types.co.uk/collections/video-game-poster from £3, produced on 260gsm museum-grade satin paper with archive pigment inks that maintain colour accuracy for decades. Orders placed before 3pm are dispatched same-day first class from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, London NW1 8AL. Also available to buy in person at Camden Market, where 98types has traded for 14+ years.

The arcade era created visual languages that have never been bettered. Pac-Man, Tetris, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong — these games did not just define gaming's first decade; they defined what games look like, sound like and feel like at the most fundamental level. Their poster art carries this authority: simple, immediately recognisable, impossible to mistake for anything else. The gaming room that acknowledges this history is the room that understands why it exists.

Nintendo's greatness is a matter of visual design as much as game design. The mushroom, the triforce, the Pokéball — these symbols are as immediately recognisable as any corporate logo in the world, but they carry emotional weight that no corporate logo can match. The gaming room that includes Mario, Zelda and Pokémon prints is the room that acknowledges Nintendo's specific achievement: making games that people return to twenty years after first playing them, not because of nostalgia but because the games are still good.

The open-world era of gaming produced the most ambitious virtual environments ever created — worlds so large, so detailed and so alive that players spent hundreds of hours in them without feeling they had seen everything. Witcher 3, Elden Ring, Grand Theft Auto, Fallout, Assassin's Creed: these games are not just played; they are inhabited. The gaming room prints for these games carry the weight of that investment — the recognition that this is where serious gaming time actually goes.

The first-person shooter genre created gaming's most dedicated communities — the Halo community, the Counter-Strike community, the Call of Duty community — groups of players whose loyalty to specific games exceeded the loyalty most people have to sports teams. These are the games that established competitive gaming as a serious pursuit and that produced the most intense gaming room cultures. The gaming posters that acknowledge this history belong on the wall of any serious FPS setup.

The indie gaming revolution of the 2010s produced some of the most artistically ambitious games ever made — Journey, Spelunky, Undertale, Hollow Knight, Celeste. These games proved that a small team with a clear vision could compete artistically with any AAA studio, and frequently win. The gaming room that includes an indie print alongside its AAA titles is the room that understands the full breadth of what gaming can be.

The gaming room is not one room — it is four or five distinct setups, each with its own aesthetic and its own relationship to gaming history. The PC master race setup has different wall art needs from the retro arcade corner. The console gaming room has different energy from the streamer setup. These are the confirmed 98types prints that work best in each specific configuration.

A gaming room gallery wall is the most concentrated statement of gaming identity available in wall art form. Unlike a single poster, a gallery wall tells a story — the arc of gaming history, the specific taste of the gamer, the games that mattered most. These are the six confirmed gallery wall combinations that work best for gaming rooms, each using the 98types buy 3 get 1 free offer.

The children's gaming room print has different requirements from the adult gaming setup poster: it needs to be immediately joyful rather than atmospheric, recognisable to both the child and the adults who walk past it, and appropriate for a room that is also used for sleeping. Mario, Pokémon, Sonic and the Minecraft movie print cover the full range of contemporary children's gaming culture while remaining visually sophisticated enough to belong on a proper bedroom wall.

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